Nom
VENARD
Prénom
Bertrand
Nom
VENARD
Prénom
Bertrand
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TitreProfessor
- Chair Holder - Anti-Fraud and Cybersecurity
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Department
Département
Organization Studies and Ethics
Teaching areas
Domaine d’enseignement
Strategy
Management
Anti-Fraud and Corruption
Consulting
Research areas
Domaine de recherche
Anti-Fraud
Corruption
Cybersécurity
Skills
Management
State corruption
Sustainable development
Whistleblowers
Biography
Biographie
Bertrand Venard is a Professor of Strategy and Anti-Fraud and Cybersecurity Chair Holder at Audencia Business School (France). He received a Doctorate in Management from the University of Paris (9) doing his research at the Management Research Centre of the Ecole Polytechnique (France). As a tenured professor, he holds a Certification of Research Direction (“Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches”) from the University of Paris (12) (Post-Doctorate diploma for Research Director and Professor). He also received a Postgraduate Diploma in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education from the University of Oxford.
Before starting an academic career, he worked in the financial industry and in consulting for PWC (PricewaterhouseCoopers). He has had various administrative positions in Higher Education such as Rector of a University (Dean or President), Vice-Dean for Research and Dean of a Business School. Thus, he created the CFVG in Ho Chi Minh City in the early 90’s, now the leading business school in Vietnam. He was also Rector of the French University of Armenia (UFAR). He has been a Visiting Professor at Wharton Business School (Financial Institutions Centre), IESE (Spain), London Business School, the University of Cambridge and the University of Oxford. He has received numerous recognitions for his research such as the Sloan Fellowship (USA), Senior Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy (UK) or the Marie Curie Fellowship (European Union). Since 2002, Professor Bertrand Venard has been listed in the Who’sWho in the World, listing the most influential individuals in the world. In 2008, he was made Knight of the Academic Palms, Order of Chivalry of France to academics, distinction given by the French Ministry of Education. He is a member of numerous academic and professional associations such as the Academy of Management (AOM), Society for Business Ethics (SBE), EGOS (European Group for Organizational Studies), AIB (Association of International Business), AIMS (International Association for research in Strategic Management), SMS (Strategic Management Society)).
His research focuses on the fight against fraud, the fight against corruption, cybersecurity, and economic intelligence. He has published more than 50 academic papers. For example, he participated for several years in a UN project group (Global Compact, Principles for Responsible Management Education, PRME) dedicated to the fight against corruption. Bertrand Venard was also until 2020 Scientific Director of various projects for the government of Bhutan to fight corruption. In the field of cybersecurity, he led an international research project at the University of Oxford on the analysis of the human factor in cybersecurity.
Diplomas
Postgraduate Diploma in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education
University of Oxford
Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches, Business administration, Strategy
Université Paris XII, Paris
(2002)
Doctorate, Business administration, Strategy. Centre de Recherche en Gestion, Ecole Polytechnique
Université de Paris IX - Dauphine, Paris
(1992)
Experiences
Rector
French University of Armenia, Erevan
2020 - 2022
Chair Holder - Anti-Fraud and Cybersecurity
Audencia Business School, Nantes
Since 2015
Research Director
Audencia Business School, Nantes
2005 - 2008
Visiting out
London Business School, : Visiting Professor
University of Cambridge, : Visiting Professor
2013 - 2018
Instituto de estudios superiores de la empresa (IESE), : Visiting Professor
2010 - 2020
University of Oxford, : Visiting Professor
2010 - 2010
Université de Genève, : Visiting Professor
2009 - 2009
Ecole de Guerre, : Visiting Professor
2007 - 2010
Ecole spéciale militaire de Saint-Cyr, : Visiting Professor
2003 - 2014
Wharton Business School, : Visiting Professor
2002 - 2018
Université de Paris IX - Dauphine, France : Visiting Professor
Publications
Published
VENARD B., BARUCH Y., CLOAREC J., (2023). Consequences of corruption: determinants of public servants’ job satisfaction and performance.
International Journal of Human Resource Management, 34 (20), 3825-3856
VENARD B., TSHERING K., (2021). Barriers to transparency in Bhutan's public administration: A new typology of opacity.
Public Administration and Development, 41 (4), 203-216
TORSELLO Davide, VENARD Bertrand, (2016). The anthropology of corruption.
Journal of Management Inquiry, 25 (1), 34-54
VENARD Bertrand, (2013). L’histoire du marché de l’assurance en France.
Assurances et Gestion des Risques (HEC Montréal), 81 (1-2)
VENARD Bertrand, (2013). Institutions, Corruption and Sustainable Development.
Economics Bulletin, 33 (4), 2545-2562
TIAN Le, VENARD Bertrand, (2012). Pour une approche contingente de la gouvernance.
Management International, 16 (2), 25-38
VENARD Bertrand, (2009). Organizational isomorphism and corruption: An empirical research in Russia..
Journal of Business Ethics, 89 (1), 59-76
VENARD Bertrand, (2009). Corruption in emerging countries: A matter of isomorphism.
M@n@gement, 12 (1), 1-27
VENARD Bertrand, ROBINSON Sherry, (2008). Un âge d’or actif : une analyse de la localisation aux USA des personnes âgées travaillant à leur compte..
Humanisme et Entreprise, (288), 117-131
VENARD Bertrand, HALEK Martin, DORFMANN Mark, (2008). The Hungarian insurance market: Economic transition in the insurance sector.
Risk Management and Insurance Review, 11 (2), 377-396
VENARD Bertrand, HANAFI Mohamed, (2008). Organizational isomorphism and corruption in financial institutions. An empirical research in emerging countries.
Journal of Business Ethics, 81 (2), 481-498
VENARD Bertrand, (2008). Multinationales et transition : une analyse de l'impact des multinationales sur la transition des entreprises hongroises.
Gestion 2000, 25 (2), 101-122
VENARD Bertrand, (2008). Les malentendus de la mondialisation.
Humanisme et Entreprise, (268), 61-74
VENARD Bertrand, CUMMINS David, (2008). Insurance market dynamics: Between global developments and local contingencies.
Risk Management and Insurance Review, 11 (2), 295-326
VENARD Bertrand, DUC MANH Ha, (2008). Des attitudes ambivalentes des employés face au changement lors de la privatisation des entreprises au Vietnam.
Management International, 12 (3), 11-28
VENARD Bertrand, (2007). Making sense of research: The dynamics of management research in France.
Prometheus, 25 (2), 125-145
VENARD Bertrand, (2006). Le système d’assurance-santé en France.
Assurances et Gestion des Risques (HEC Montréal), 74 (2), 201-227
VENARD Bertrand, (2004). La culture nationale dans les firmes internationales : une affaire de climat organisationnel ?.
Gestion 2000, 21 (1, n° spécial), 69-84
VENARD Bertrand, (2003). Les phénomènes de convergence sectorielle expliqués par la théorie des ressources. Application à l'analyse de la bancassurance en France.
Assurances et Gestion des Risques (HEC Montréal), 70 (4), 561-579
VENARD Bertrand, (2003). Les fusions dans le secteur de l'assurance : des mariages de raison parfois mouvementés.
Assurances et Gestion des Risques (HEC Montréal), 71 (3), 381-396
VENARD Bertrand, (2003). Les acquisitions transnationales en Hongrie : vers une taxinomie des attitudes face au changement.
Management International, 7 (2), 19-30
VENARD Bertrand, (2003). L'E.Bancassurance : entre opportunités et contraintes.
Assurances et Gestion des Risques (HEC Montréal), 70 (4), 581-605
VENARD Bertrand, (2002). Les processus de transition et d'intégration économique illustrés par le cas du marché hongrois de l'assurance.
Risques, (51), 127-132
VENARD Bertrand, (2002). Le blocage organisationnel dans les entreprises vietnamiennes : étude de cas dans des réseaux de distribution.
Revue des Sciences de Gestion. Direction et Gestion, (195), 71-79
VENARD Bertrand, CUMMINS David, (2007). Handbook of international insurance. Between global dynamics and local contingencies.
Springer
VENARD, B. (2007). The French insurance market: Background and trends. In VENARD, Bertrand and CUMMINS, David (Eds.), Handbook of international insurance. Between global dynamics and local contingencies. (pp. 241-304). Springer.
VENARD, B. (2006). La gestion du sens à des fins de domination : usage de l'idéologie dans une joint venture. In AUTISSIER, David and BENSEBAA, Faouzi (Eds.), Les défis du sensemaking en entreprise. Karl E. Weick et les sciences de gestion (pp. 219-248). Economica.
VENARD B., (2025). Sustainable Management Education through Anti-Corruption Training.
VENARD B., JAIN S., BARUCH Y., (2024). Mapping Methodological Terrain in Corruption Research: Lessons, Lapses, and Future Directions.
VENARD B., MELÉ D., (2023). Exploring the Integration of Ethics in Business Education: Insights from Faculty Members of a Humanistic and Ethical Business School.
VENARD B., SIMON T., (2022). Optimism for imperfect practices. How moral debates influence SME’s cybersecurity practices..
VENARD B., SIMON T., (2020). The dynamics of sensemaking in information systems security. A qualitative case study.
VENARD B., (2019). The Impact of Corruption on Performance.
VENARD B., (2019). Measuring the unmeasurable: A Methodological Review.
VENARD B., (2019). Cyber Aggressions in the XXIst century. Equation of a crisis.
VENARD B., (2019). Cybersecurity among students.
VENARD B., (2019). “Moral disengagement in caring organizations”.
VENARD B., (2019). “Cyber War: a new cold war?”.
VENARD B., (2019). “I have not time for any backup”. Research about cybersecurity behaviours of students.
VENARD B., (2019). “Corruption or favoritism”.
VENARD B., (2018). Culture of Neutralization.
VENARD B., (2018). The Integration of Ethics in Business Education. A Case Study.
VENARD B., (2018). Cybersecurity and human activity: rethinking prevention of digital threat for organization.
VENARD B., (2018). Cybersecurity : a comparative analysis between France and the UK.
VENARD B., SIMON T., (2018). Cybersecurity and human activity: rethinking prevention of digital threat for organization.
European Group for Organizational Studies
VENARD B., (2015). Improving Governance Education in business Schools: the Role of Management Faculty.
VENARD B., (2015). Institutions, R&D Intensity and Corruption.
VENARD B., (2015). Fighting Corruption in the Mining Industry in Bhutan.
VENARD B., (2015). Favoritism in the Human Resource Management..
VENARD Bertrand, (2014). Lost Alone in India.
VENARD Bertrand, (2014). Janaagraha: I paid a bribe.
VENARD Bertrand, CHAREF Rania, (2014). Diversity management tools as uncertainty zones and sources of power: The case studies of the implementation of the diversity management tool in a French multinational.
VENARD Bertrand, EBODE Sire de Marc, (2014). Création des connaissances et capacités dynamiques : le cas des équipes de projet dans la maintenance industrielle.
VENARD Bertrand, (2014). Corruption et Compagnie.
VENARD Bertrand, (2014). Accounting, Institutions and Corruption.
VENARD Bertrand, (2013). La fraude économique.
VENARD Bertrand, (2013). Cyberstratégie: espionnage et sabotage numériques, substituts à la guerre froide ?.
VENARD Bertrand, (2012). Transparence, mimétisme et corruption.
VENARD Bertrand, (2012). The challenges of moral education for higher education: The example of business schools.
VENARD Bertrand, TIAN Le, (2012). Mock Governance in Chinese SMEs: a focus on the determinants of board composition.
VENARD Bertrand, (2012). Management education against corruption: Developing guidelines for curriculum change.
VENARD Bertrand, (2010). The architecture of humanistic markets.
VENARD Bertrand, (2010). Accounting, institutions and corruption.
VENARD Bertrand, TIAN Le, (2009). The determinants of corporate board size and independence: Evidence from Chinese small and medium-sized enterprises.
VENARD Bertrand, (2009). Informal and formal standards: The influence of accounting standard and audit corruption.
VENARD Bertrand, (2009). Corruption in emerging countries. A matter of mimetism.
VENARD Bertrand, TIAN Le, (2008). The determinants of corporate size and independence: Evidence from Chinese small and middle-sized companies.
VENARD Bertrand, HANAFI Mohamed, (2008). Organizational isomorphism and corruption in emerging countries. The Russian case.
VENARD Bertrand, (2008). Organizational isomorphism and corruption.
VENARD Bertrand, CHAREF Rania, (2008). National culture in multinationals. A dynamic hybridisation through heterogeneous intercultural perceptions, stereotypes, interactions and intercultural skills.
VENARD Bertrand, CUMMINS David, (2008). Insurance market dynamics: Between global developments and local contingencies.
VENARD Bertrand, (2007). The Janus researcher between strategic discourse and real action.
VENARD Bertrand, HANAFI Mohamed, (2007). The influence of organizational isomorphism on corruption. An empirical research in emerging countries..
VENARD Bertrand, TIAN Le, (2007). Indépendance du conseil d'administration et performance de la R et D : les perspectives de la théorie de l'agence et de la théorie de l'intendance.
VENARD Bertrand, (2006). Sense and action in the development of management research. The case of management research in France.
VENARD Bertrand, HANAFI Mohamed, (2006). Organisational isomorphism and corruption in emerging countries.
VENARD Bertrand, (2006). Dynamics of management research. A qualitative research in France.
VENARD Bertrand, (2005). National culture differences and organizational climate.
VENARD Bertrand, (2005). La gestion du sens à des fins de domination : usage de l'idéologie dans une joint venture au Vietnam.
VENARD Bertrand, (2004). World insurance markets.
VENARD Bertrand, (2004). The transformation of multinationals in transition economies: A quantitative survey in Hungary.
VENARD Bertrand, (2004). Multinationals in transition: Between cultural and managerial weaknesses.
VENARD Bertrand, (2004). Les résistances au changement.
VENARD Bertrand, (2004). Le monde ouvrier en France.
VENARD Bertrand, (2004). Integration in multinationals in transition economies: When the cultural tree" hides the managerial "forest"".
VENARD Bertrand, (2003). Tourism in transition: A quantitative analysis based on Vietnamese data in the tourism industry.
VENARD Bertrand, (2003). Openness to organizational change in multinationals: The example of MNCs in transition economies.
VENARD Bertrand, (2003). Openness to organizational change in multinationals: A quantitative survey in Hungary.
VENARD Bertrand, (2003). Bancassurance convergence strategy: The French case study.
Press articles
VENARD B., (2025). Harvard face à l’administration Trump : une lecture éthique d’un combat pour la liberté académique.
The Conversation
VENARD B., (2025). L’université n’est pas le porte-voix servile de l’Etat : quand Harvard dit non, c’est non.
Libération
VENARD B., (2024). En Nouvelle-Calédonie, la France dans le viseur de l’Azerbaïdjan.
The Conversation
VENARD B., (2023). Corruption and war: two scourges that feed off each other.
The Conversation
VENARD B., (2023). Corruption et guerre : deux fléaux qui se nourrissent l’un de l’autre.
The Conversation
VENARD B., (2023). Mediator : un procès dans l’indifférence, un scandale pourtant exemplaire.
The Conversation
VENARD B., (2022). Décryptage : mieux protéger les lanceurs d’alerte, c’est aussi sécuriser l’économie.
The Conversation
VENARD B., (2021). « Il n’est pas mort pour rien » : un an après la défaite au Karabakh, le douloureux travail de deuil des familles arméniennes.
The Conversation
VENARD B., FRACHON I., (2021). Stop au crime en blouse blanche.
Zadig, 12
VENARD B., (2020). Airbus: flying high on the wings of corruption.
The Conversation
VENARD B., (2019). Cybersécurité, le facteur humain reste le maillon faible.
The Conversation
VENARD B., (2019). La corruption peut-elle assassiner la démocratie ? Leçons du Venezuela.
La Tribune
VENARD B., (2019). What can the kingdom of Bhutan teach us about fighting corruption ?.
The Conversation
VENARD B., (2019). Marriott data breach: 500 million times concerned.
The Conversation
VENARD B., (2019). Can corruption kill democracy?.
The Conversation
VENARD B., (2019). La créatrice de la poupée Barbie, un cas de leadership au féminin..
The Conversation
VENARD B., (2019). The real story of the Barbie doll: strong female leadership behind the scenes.
The Conversation
VENARD B., (2019). La guerre froide 2.0 entre Chine et États-Unis est tout sauf « virtuelle ».
The Conversation
VENARD B., (2019). The Cold War 2.0 between China and the US is already a virtual reality.
The Conversation
VENARD B., (2018). L'avalanche des cyberattaques en 2017 nous fait craindre cette nouvelle année.
La Tribune
VENARD B., (2018). Notre-Dame-des-Landes: un aéroport sans corruption !.
Les echos.fr
VENARD B., (2018). Marriott au cœur d’un nouveau scandale de fuite de données..
Les Echos
VENARD B., (2018). Lessons from the massive Siemens corruption scandal one decade later.
The Conversation
VENARD Bertrand, (2016). Loi Sapin 2 contre la corruption : de la poudre aux yeux ?.
La Tribune
VENARD Bertrand, (2016). La moralité du lanceur d'alerte.
La Croix, (40510)
VENARD Bertrand, (2016). How ISIS terrorists neutralise guilt to justify their atrocities.
The Conversation
VENARD Bertrand, (2015). Une vraie réforme de l'ENA : sa fermeture.
La Tribune
VENARD Bertrand, (2015). Leçon de Green Washing.
La Tribune, (144)
VENARD Bertrand, (2014). Sotchi : une leçon de corruption.
Les echos.fr
VENARD Bertrand, (2014). Inde : Bhopal sous fond de corruption.
Les echos.fr
VENARD Bertrand, (2014). Davos : des hypothèses hasardeuses pour un sommet de l’inutile ?.
Les echos.fr
VENARD Bertrand, (2008). Les malentendus de la mondialisation.
Problèmes Economiques, (2946), 33-37
Professional conference
VENARD B., (2018). Faut-il avoir peur des réseaux sociaux ?.
VENARD B., (2016). Tendances de la cybersécurité.
VENARD B., (2016). Cyberdéfense.
VENARD B., (2015). Intelligence économique.
Scientific activities
Reviewer for an academic journal
Academy of Management (AOM)
European Group for Organizational Studies (EGOS)
Association of International Business (AIB)
Association Internationale de Management Stratégique (AIMS)
Strategic Management Society (SMS)
Society for Business Ethics (SBE)
Awards and honors
Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow, University of Oxford, 2018
Higher Education Academy Senior Fellow (UK), 2012
Knight of the Academic Palms (Distinction given by the French Ministry of Education), 2008
Sloan Foundation Fellow (USA), 2004
Marie Curie Research Fellow (European Union) , 2000
Lloyd’s of London Fellow (UK), 1995
Doctoral supervision
(2016) Rania Charef : Le management interculturel : entre contraintes nationales, contraintes organisationnelles et particularisme locaux.
(2015) Sire de Marc Ebode Onana : Intelligence économique et capacités dynamiques : le cas des entreprises de haute technologie.
(2021) Mayar Fahim : Corruption: BetweenNeutralisation, Moral disengagement and Transparency. Case studies in Egypt.
(2021) T. SIMON : Stratégies et arrangements organisationnels dans la lutte contre la cybercriminalité..
(2020) Sonal Jain : Stratégie et arrangements organisationnels dans la lutte contre la corruption.
(2017) J. JINGJING MA : The management, usage, consumption, and representation of water in China.
(2017) H. HUNG DUY PHAM : Farmer’s willingness to switch to modern vegetable supply chains: Empirical and experimental evidence from Vietnam.