Caroline Verzat is Associate Professor in SHO Department at ESCP Europe. She is an alumni of Ecole Normale Supérieure and ESSEC. She also holds a PhD in the sociology of Organizations (University Paris IX-Dauphine) and HDR (Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches) in entrepreneurship. She started her career as a consultant in management and organization (Bossard Consultants, now Ernst and Young) and became Lecturer in Management at Ecole Centrale de Lille where she managed innovation projects of engineering students. In 2009 she joined Advancia, the first French school specialized in entrepreneurship and ESCP Europe in 2017. With Alain Fayolle, she is editor-in-chief of Entreprendre et Innover, the first French outreach journal between researchers and professionals in the field of Entrepreneurship and innovation. She is a member of FA2L, a spinoff of the Université Catholique de Louvain (Belgium) which accompanies teacher teams wishing to develop active pedagogies and reinforce student engagement.

Her research focuses on action research, which closely combines practical exploration and theoretical research. Three main questions at the interface of sociology, management, educational sciences are at stake. The first one concerns the development of the entrepreneurial mindset throughout life: What is its nature? What are its benefits but also its limits at the individual and societal level? Can it be educated? The second question accompanies the ongoing transformation of educational environments: For what real purposes emanating from what latent values ​​and beliefs? Through which educational innovations and at what level of the education system? How can their real impact be measured and to what extent is it related to context variables? What are the characteristics of an emancipating educational environment? The latter question focuses on student and teacher innovation teams and their coaching: What is the impact of leadership configurations and emotions on learning and performance? But also how to enable actors to cope with hidden facets of learning and innovation (failure, hangers-on, conflicts, delays)?

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Academic Articles

2022

LAMY, E., M. LOI, A. FAYOLLE, M. VAN GELDEREN, E. RIOT, D. REFAI, D. HIGGINS, R. HALOUD, M. A. SALUSSE, C. VERZAT, F. CAVARRETTA

Entrepreneurship Education at the Crossroads

JOURNAL OF MANAGEMENT INQUIRY, 31(2), 123-134

Academic Articles

2022

VERZAT, C., A. FAYOLLE

Entrepreneurial education: What are the challenges for teaching and research in the light of crises and digitisation?

REVUE DE L'ENTREPRENEURIAT

Academic Articles

2021

VERZAT, C., N. O'SHEA

Coopérer dans une équipe de projet entrepreneurial: une affaire de leadership ?

Les Annales de QPES, 1/2

Academic Articles

2021

VERZAT, C., A. FAYOLLE

Education entrepreneuriale : Quels défis pour l’enseignement et la recherche à l’aune des crises et de la digitalisation ?

REVUE DE L'ENTREPRENEURIAT, 2021/0

Academic Articles

2021

VERZAT, C., A. -C. TEGLBORG

Changer le monde et la place des femmes dans la transition

ENTREPRENDRE ET INNOVER, 90-99

Academic Articles

2021

VERZAT, C., A. JACQUEMIN, N. CARRE

Accompagnateurs experts, outils magiques et entrepreneurs intelligents

ENTREPRENDRE ET INNOVER, 51, 68-75

Academic Articles

2021

VERZAT, C., O. TOUTAIN, F. BORNARD, A. JACQUEMIN, N. CARRE

L’approche critique au cœur du positionnement de la revue Entreprendre & Innover

ENTREPRENDRE ET INNOVER, n° 51, 10-14

Academic Articles

2021

VERZAT, C., F. BORNARD, A. JACQUEMIN, N. CARRE

Outils et pratiques de l’entrepreneuriat : (re)lectures régénératives

ENTREPRENDRE ET INNOVER, n° 51, 5-9

Books

2021

VERZAT, C., B. RAUCENT, C. VAN NIEUWENHOVEN, C. JACQMOT

Accompagner les étudiants: Rôles de l'enseignant, dispositifs et mises en œuvre

De Boeck, 608

ESCP Impact Papers

2021

VERZAT, C., A. -C. TEGLBORG, A. ACQUIER

From awareness to engagement: how can impact pedagogy educate future sustainable leaders?

ESCP Impact Papers, 2021-54-EN

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