Education
- 2010 : Ph.D., Management Sciences, Business, University of Liège, Belgium
- 2007 : Other, Business Administration, Management, University of Liège, Belgium
- 2003 : Master, Business Administration, Management, Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium
Professional Experiences
Academic Experience
- 2021 - present, Full Professor, IÉSEG School of Management, , France
- 2017 - 2021, Associate Professor, EM Lyon, , France
- 2015 - 2017, Associate Professor, University of Liège, , Belgium
- 2011 - 2015, Assistant Professor, University of Liège, , Belgium
- 2010 - 2010, Visiting professor, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
- 2004 - 2011, Teaching and Research Assistant, University of Liège, , Belgium
Scientific prizes and Awards
Awards
- 2022 : Francqui Chair awarded by the Louvain School of Management, Université catholique de Louvain
Published Papers in Refereed Journals
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Huybrechts B., Haugh Helen, Doherty Bob, (2024). Mission accomplished? Balancing market growth and moral legitimation in the fair trade moral market, Journal of Management Studies, 61 (4) 1393-1426.
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Huybrechts B., Nelson D., Nelson T., Dufays F., O'Shea Noreen, (2024). Conform and oppose through numbers: Quantifying hybrid organizations at the International Cooperative Alliance, Journal of Management Studies, n/a (n/a) n/a.
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Huybrechts B., Pérez-Suárez M., Cobeña M., Sánchez-Torné I., (2024). Energy co-operatives in Spain: The role of social enterprises in the energy transition, Futures, 160 (1) 103381.
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Soetens A., Huybrechts B., (2023). Resisting the tide: The roles of ideology in sustaining an alternative organizational form over time, Journal of Management Inquiry, 32 (2) 134-151.
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Huybrechts B., Savarese C., Hudon M., (2021). The influence of interorganizational collaboration on logic conciliation and tensions within hybrid organizations: insights from social enterprise-corporate collaborations, Journal of Business Ethics, 173 (4) 709-721.
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Huybrechts B., Nicholls A., (2021). Le rôle de la certification dans le développement de collaborations entre acteurs aux logiques partiellement distinctes : le cas du commerce équitable, Management International, 25 (2) 141-158.
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Huybrechts B., Dufays F., O'Shea, Noreen N., Nelson T., (2020). Resisting colonisation: Worker cooperatives’ conceptualisation and behaviour in a Habermasian perspective, Work, Employment and Society, 34 (6) 965–984.
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Bauwens T., Huybrechts B., Dufays F., (2019). Understanding the diverse scaling strategies of social enterprises as hybrid organizations: the case of renewable energy cooperatives, Organization and Environment, 33 (2) 195-219.
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Xhauflair V., Huybrechts B., Pichault F., (2018). How can new players establish themselves in highly institutionalized labour markets? A Belgian case study in the area of project-based work, British Journal of Industrial Relations, 56 (2) 370-394.
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Huybrechts B., Aliaga-Isla R., (2018). From ‘Push Out’ to ‘Pull In Together’: An Analysis of Social Entrepreneurship Definitions in the Academic Field, Journal of Cleaner Production, 205 (1) 645-660.
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Huybrechts B., Haugh H., (2018). The roles of networks in institutionalizing new hybrid organizational forms: Insights from the European renewable energy cooperative network, Organization Studies, 39 (8) 1085-1108.
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Huybrechts B., Hudon M., (2017). From distant neighbours to bedmates: Exploring the synergies between the social economy and sustainable development, Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics (Annales de l'Économie publique sociale et coopérative), 88 (2) 141-154.
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Huybrechts B., Hudon M., (2017). From distant neighbours to bedmates: Exploring the synergies between the social economy and sustainable development, Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics (Annales de l'Économie publique sociale et coopérative), 88 (2) 141-154.
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Huybrechts B., Nicholls A., Edinger K., (2017). Sacred alliance or pact with the devil? How and why social enterprises interact with mainstream businesses in the fair trade sector, Entrepreneurship and Regional Development, 29 (7) 586-608.
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Dufays F., Huybrechts B., (2016). Where do hybrids come from? Entrepreneurial team heterogeneity as an avenue for the emergence of hybrid organizations, International Small Business Journal, 34 (6) 777–796.
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Nicholls A., Huybrechts B., (2016). Sustaining Inter-Organizational Relationships across Institutional Logics and Power Asymmetries: The Case of Fair Trade, Journal of Business Ethics, 135 (4) 699-714.
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Huybrechts B., Nelson T., Nelson D., Dufays F., O'Shea, Noreen N., Trasciani G., (2016). Emergent identity formation and the co-operative: Theory building in relation to alternative organizational forms, Entrepreneurship and Regional Development, 28 (3) 286-309.
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Dufays F., Huybrechts B., (2014). Connecting the dots for social value: A review on social networks and social entrepreneurship, Journal of Social Entrepreneurship, 5 (2) 214-237.
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Huybrechts B., Mertens S., (2014). The relevance of the cooperative model in the field of renewable energy, Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics (Annales de l'Économie publique sociale et coopérative), 85 (2) 193-212.
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Huybrechts B., Reed D., (2010). Fair Trade in Different National Contexts, Journal of Business Ethics, 92 (1) 147-160.
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Huybrechts B., (2010). Fair Trade Organizations in Belgium: Unity in Diversity?, Journal of Business Ethics, 92 (1) 217-240.
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Huybrechts B., Becchetti L., (2008). The Dynamics of Fair Trade as a Mixed-form Market, Journal of Business Ethics, 81 (1) 733-750.
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Huybrechts B., (2007). Fondements et implications de la diversité organisationnelle au sein du commerce équitable, Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics (Annales de l'Économie publique sociale et coopérative), 78 (2) 195-218.
Book Chapters
- Soetens A., Huybrechts B., Bretos I., (2023), Decades of Radical Self-Management at a Venezuelan Cooperative: Institutional Distinctiveness and Ideology, in: Humanistic Governance in Democratic Organizations.
- Huybrechts B., Haugh H., Rijpens J., Soetens A., (2020), Building Legitimacy for Hybrid Organisations: the Case of Renewable Energy Cooperatives, in: Handbook on Hybrid Organisations.
- Dufays F., Huybrechts B., (2017), Entrepreneurial teams in social entrepreneurship: When team heterogeneity facilitates organizational hybridity, in: Research Handbook on Entrepreneurial Teams.
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- Nicholls A., Huybrechts B., (2017), The Oxford Handbook of Mutual, Co-Operative, and Co-Owned Business, in: The Oxford Handbook of Mutual, Co-Operative, and Co-Owned Business.
- Huybrechts B., (2016), Fair Trade and Social Enterprise, in: Handbook of Research on Fair Trade.
- Huybrechts B., Mertens S., Rijpens J., (2014), Explaining stakeholder involvement in social enterprise governance through resources and legitimacy, in: Social Enterprise and the Third Sector.
- Huybrechts B., Nicholls A., Mouchamps Hugues, (2012), Entrepreneuriat social : définitions, ressorts et défis, in: Management des entreprises de l'économie sociale et solidaire.
- Huybrechts B., Nicholls A., (2012), Social entrepreneurship: definitions, drivers and challenges, in: Social Entrepreneurship and Social Business An Introduction and Discussion with Case Studies.
- Huybrechts B., (2010), Les organisations de commerce équitable entre solidarité et marché, in: Mettre en marché pour une cause. Commerce équitable, une comparaison internationale.
- Huybrechts B., (2006), Les enjeux d'une régulation collective des échanges marchands: le cas du commerce équitable, in: Economie sociale et Droit.
