- Sustainability and Responsible Management
- Decision analysis and Cognition
- System Thinking
- Operations management
- Responsible AI
- Professional Soft Skills
Benedicte Deryckere
Dr. Benedicte Deryckere
Professor
- Doctorate (DBA) in Corporate Strategies for Sustainable Development and Strategic Cognition
- MSc in Computer Science and Business Administration
✉ benedicte.deryckere@euruni.edu
LinkedIn | Geneva Campus
Bio
I passionately believe in a new emerging economic system that would allow future generations across the globe to live healthy, prosperous, and peaceful lives within the limits of our planet.
As a former PwC/IBM executive and Global Oracle Practise Operations lead, I oversaw large-scale business process reengineering projects across global value chains and corporate finance departments of numerous multinational corporations. This experience gave me a profound understanding of how every business corporation is a component of a world interconnected by global supply chains, global policies, and externalities with substantial climate, ecological, and societal impacts.
Today, I am acting as circularity expert for the Solar Impulse foundation, committee member for the InnoSuisse Lab for Decarbonisation and as judge and mentor for startup incubators such as MassChallenge and Impact Hub.
In parallel, I am teaching Operations & Logistics management and Decision Analysis at the EU Business School and seek to pursue my doctoral research work at the intersection of corporate decision making, strategic cognition, grand the societal grand challenges linked to sustainable development.
Teaching Interests
Research Interests
- Strategic Management and Decision Making
- Strategic Cognition
- Framing and Reframing
- Sustainable Development, Sustainability, and Societal Grand Challenges
- Responsible Management
Publications
Chapters in Edited Volumes
“Sustainability: from conceptualization to operationalization” Chapter 14 in Business Strategies for Sustainability, Edited by Helen Borland, Adam Lindgreen, Joëlle Vanhamme, Francois Maon, Véronique Ambrosini, Beatriz Palacios-Florencio, Routledge, 2018.
Conference Proceedings
“Strategic Cognition on Societal Issues: linking Cognitive Structures with Strategy Formulation” (Jointly with Caroline Gauthier). Presented at Strategic Management Conference, 2019, Frankfurt, Germany.
“Making sense of sustainability issues: The role of cognitive structural alignment and enterprise logic” (Jointly with Caroline Gauthier). Presented at 33rd EGOS Colloquium, 2017, Copenhagen, Denmark.
“ Making sense of sustainability” (Jointly with Caroline Gauthier). Presented at Sustainability, Ethics, and Entrepreneurship Conference, 2016, Denver, USA.
“Making Sense of Sustainability Issues: The Role of Cognitive Structural Alignment and Enterprise Logic”. Presented at Strategic Management Society 36th Annual Conference, 2016, Berlin, Germany.
Working papers
- A pragmatic view on the black box of decision-making
- A healthy mind in business: Corporate sensemaking and product sustainability
- Human health in sensemaking: Cognitive frames and product engagement
- Strategic Decision Making about Societal Grand Challenges - The role of cognitive frames
- Decision making in times of uncertainty