Dr Laure Leglise

Lecturer in Strategy and Sustainability

My profile

Biography

I am a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Strategy and Sustainability at the Department of Strategy, Enterprise and Sustainability at Manchester Metropolitan University. I joined MMU in September 2023. Prior to that role, I was a Research Fellow at Catolica Lisbon School of Business and Economics in Lisbon. I conducted my doctoral research at Paris Dauphine University.

My research critically investigates the role of businesses in the creation and the solution to social issues such as poverty alleviation and social inequalities, and to environmental issues such as climate change or loss of biodiversity. I am currently developing a research project to investigate the intersection of the social and the environmental dimensions of sustainability, focusing for instance on the notion of environmental justice. I study these topics with a qualitative approach (case studies, critical discourse analysis,…) and from a critical perspective. I studied different industries: the fashion industry,  the banking and financial services industry, the oil industry as well as business and management education.

I draw on different theories, and use frameworks developed in human geography and international relations.

Academic background:

  • PhD in management from University Paris Dauphine
  • Msc in management from Sorbonne Business School
  • Ecole Normale Supérieure de Cachan (now ENS Paris Saclay)

Interests and expertise

  • sustainability
  • poverty, social inequalities
  • climate change
  • business and international development
  • North/South power dynamics
  • politics of knowledge
  • critical management studies
  • qualitative research
  • business school and management education

Get in touch

Business School
Online: Mondays 9am-10am; On campus: Tuesdays 3pm-4pm.

Impact

I am involved in the following funded project:

  • Co-investigator on 83 500£ project funded by the Foundation Francisco Manuel Dos Santos (Portugal): “The role of Portuguese manufacturers-suppliers in sustainability-oriented innovation and competitiveness in the clothing and textile industry.” (Sept 2022-Aug 2024)

Teaching

I teach strategy- and sustainability- related courses at the undergraduate and postgraduate levels.

Supervision

  • I supervise master theses.
  • I welcome enquiries from PhD students interested in conducting doctoral research close to my areas of expertise and interest.

Research outputs

Publications

  • Gauthier O., Leglise L. (2019). Waiting for critical moments: beyond Food Coop (2019), M@n@gement,  Unplugged, 22(4), p. 674-680.

Selected academic conference presentations

  • Cook-Lundgren E.*, Leglise L.* (2023). Social entrepreneurship education in business schools: changing the world or maintaining the status quo?, Academy of Management Annual Conference, Boston, USA, 4-8 august. (Award of the best critical management education paper)
  • Abecassis-Moedas* C., Leglise* L., (2023). The relationship between buyers and suppliers in sustainability-oriented innovation, IPDMC Annual Conference, Lecco, Italy, July 7-9.
  • Abecassis-Moedas* C., Leglise* L., (2023). The collaboration between buyers and suppliers in sustainability- and circular-oriented innovations, R&D Management Conference Annual Conference, Sevilha, Spain, June 19- June 21.
  • Leglise L. (2022). A critical discourse analysis of the narrative struggles around sustainable fashion, EGOS Annual Conference, Vienna, July 7- July 9.
  • Cook-Lundgren E.*, Leglise L.* (2022). Changing the world or maintaining the status quo? A critical discourse analysis of social entrepreneurship in business and management education, EGOS Annual Conference, Vienna, July 7- July 9.
  • Leglise L., Abecassis-Moedas C. (2022). The role of suppliers in sustainability-oriented innovation: beyond location and sourcing in the fashion industry, JPIM Research Forum Agenda, January 13-January 15.
  • Cook-Lundgren E.*, Leglise L.* (2021). Changing the world or maintaining the status quo? A critical analysis of social entrepreneurship in business and management education, ICMS Annual Conference, online, BML Munjal University, India, December 16- December 18.
  • Leglise, L. (2021). Les enjeux des stratégies d’entreprise visant à lutter contre la pauvreté pour le management stratégique : un appel à une approche politique du management stratégique. Conférence annuelle de l’Association Internationale en Management Stratégique (AIMS), online, June 2-4 (Award of the best paper by young researchers)
  • Leglise, L. (2019). Empowerment through organizations as cooptation or emancipation? A critical analysis of the construction of empowerment as an organizational responsibility, ICMS Annual Conference, Milton Keynes, June 27-June 29.
  • Leglise L. (2018). The production of social inclusion through the articulation of spatial scales: A comparative case study of inclusive for-profit organizations in South countries, European Group for Organizational Studies (EGOS) Annual Conference, Tallinn, July 5-July 7.
  • Leglise L., Gauthier O. (2018). La diffusion d’une conception hégémonique et normée de l’entrepreneuriat dans les pays dits en développement : le rôle des banques et des agences de développement françaises dans le cas malgache, 7ème Journées Georges Doriot, Montréal, May 15 –May 17. (Award of the best paper by PhD researchers)
  • Leglise, L. (2017). “Local initiatives”, “global cause”: the articulation of spatial scales in the case of business strategies to alleviate poverty”, ICMS Annual Conference, Liverpool, July 3-July 5.

Awards

  • 2023: Best Critical Management Learning Paper Award at AOM (CMS division)
  • 2021: Roland Calori award at AIMS annual conference (best paper written by a young researcher, Association Internationale de Management Stratégique)
  • 2021: Finalist for the award of the best conceptual paper at AIMS annual conference (Association Internationale de Management Stratégique)
  • 2018: Award of the best paper written by PhD researchers, 7ème Journées Georges Doriot, Entrepreneurship in society, Montréal, May 15th –17th, 2018. (2000 euros)

  • Journal articles

    Gauthier, O., Léglise, L., Ouahab, A., Lanciano, E., Dufays, F. (2019) 'Food Coop (2016) - tom boothe: Unplugged - voices.' Management (France), 22(4)