Arusyak, Alice ZAKARYAN, PH.D

I am an Assistant Professor of Strategy at Grenoble Ecole de Management, France. In 2019 I received a joint PhD degree in Management Science from SKEMA Business School and University of Côte d'Azur in France. Prior to this I completed a Master in Research in Management Science at SKEMA Business School. My PhD thesis was shortlisted for Grigor McClelland Doctoral Dissertation Award 2020.  

My research interests broadly cover innovation, strategy and organizational studies. The first stream of my work investigates organizational learning from failures, successes and near-misses. A second line of research focuses on the management of innovation and technology with particular emphasis on knowledge networks, search and invention termination. More recently, I have started exploring the gender perspective in innovation, technology and science. I seek to understand, in particular, the effect of inventor’s and scientist’s gender on innovation and technology development. Empirically, I investigate primarily biopharmaceutical and medical device firms as well as life science academic publications and scientists. I use mainly quantitative methods.

My research has been published in journals such as Industrial and Corporate Change, Industry and Innovation, Technovation, Technological Forecasing and Social Change.