Helen Etchanchu

Dr Helen Etchanchu started at Montpellier Business School in October 2016 after having accomplished her PhD at ESSEC Business School. Her research explores how we may organize for and make sense of grand challenges such as climate change, inequality or health.

In previous and ongoing studies, she investigates struggles over meaning between business, political and civil society actors in addressing grand challenges, such as the UN SDGs from two different lenses: discursive legitimation strategies, and corporate political roles and democracy. Specifically, she studies the governance and meaning structures around environmental and social issues such as fracking, smoking, corporate social responsibility, emancipated entrepreneurship, digital sustainability, and zero waste.

Education

• MBA ESSEC Business School (2008 — 2010)
• Bachelor of Science University of the Pacific (2005 — 2007)
• Escola de Comerç International (2006 — 2006)

Companies

• Director IMPACTS Research Center (2022)
• Co Titulaire Chaire Communication and Organizing for Sustainbility Transformation (2020)
• Associate Professor Montpellier Business School (2020)
• Assistant Professor Montpellier Business School (2016 — 2020)
• PhD student ESSEC Business School (2011 — 2016)
• Visiting PhD student Alberta School of Business, University of Alberta (2014 — 2014)
• Freelance consultant Mawenzi Partners (2011 — 2011)
• Research Associate ESSEC Institute for Service Innovation & Strategy (2011 — 2011)
• Project Manager La Poste (2009 — 2011)