RESEARCH
EDHEC's position on research is that research that does not allow the group to improve according to the criteria that the group sets for itself is of no interest. The idea that a major business school is the leading research centre because its researchers have published the largest number of articles could lead to the mistaken belief that quantity is preferable to strategic coherence and that the school is a mere list of professors, researchers, and publications rather than an organisation dedicated to serving businesses and students.
Therefore, before any new initiative, and thus investment, in the area of research, EDHEC evaluates its contribution to the four criteria for the success of the group:
- Academic credibility of the institution and impact on the market, i.e., business and, more generally, the economy;
- Development of close ties with business;
- Increase in the level of the group's resources either directly (financial support for the research) or by the educational offerings that it supports and justifies;
- Internationalisation of the activities.
It is this specific approach to research, which aims for it to be useful for business and for society, that has made it original and successful. In 2009-2010 EDHEC will have obtained more than 6.2 million euros in financial support from businesses for its research centres.
EDHEC research is cited in the five largest-circulation economic publications (Financial Times, Wall Street JournalEurope and AsiaThe Economist, and BusinessWeek) more often than that of any other school in continental Europe
With the research conferences it organises in Amsterdam, Frankfurt, Geneva, London, Milan, Munich, Paris, Rome, and Zurich, EDHEC receives more business leaders than any other business school in Europe. In total, more than 3,000 people will have participated in EDHEC's research events in 2009-2010.
Over the same period, EDHEC will have devoted more than 10.6 million euros to research.
This considerable research effort is organised around six research centres:
- Finance, with the EDHEC-Risk Institute
- Accounting and financial analysis, with the EDHEC Financial Analysis and Accounting Research Centre
- Marketing, with InteraCT, dedicated to research about cultural approaches to consumption and related marketing strategies
- Economics, with the EDHEC Economics Research Centre on Evaluation of Public Policy and State Reform
- Legal Performance and Corporate Competitiveness, with the LegalEdhec Research Centre
