---
id: "pisquared:interview/jaqueminetanne"
type: "Pi-Squared interview"
title: "Anita McGahan in conversation with Anne Jacqueminet"
url: "https://pisquared.theburnescenter.org/interviews/jaqueminetanne"
date: "2026-08-25"
people: ["Anita McGahan","Anne Jacqueminet"]
summary: "Anne Jacqueminet is Associate Professor of Law, Political Science & Society at Essec Business School in Cergy, Île-de-France, just northwest of Paris..."
recording: "https://vimeo.com/1221155287"
source: "Pi-Squared (pisquared.theburnescenter.org), The Burnes Center for Social Change"
licence: "none stated"
---

# Anita McGahan in conversation with Anne Jacqueminet

Anne Jacqueminet, Associate Professor of Law, Political Science & Society, Essec Business School · 25 August 2026

## About the guest

Anne Jacqueminet is Associate Professor of Law, Political Science & Society at Essec Business School in Cergy, Île-de-France, just northwest of Paris, France. She received her PhD in Strategic Management from HEC Paris and has experience as Assistant Professor in the Department of Management and Technology of Bocconi University. In her research, she investigates different firms’s approaches to sustainability practices. She also looks at firm-stakeholder interactions as well as stakeholder reactions to firms’ social and environmental behavior. Her work has been published in our top journals. Anne received the Peter Buckley and Mark Casson Best Dissertation Award in 2016 from the AIB, and was named the AIB Alan Rugman Young Scholar Award in 2021. She is a member of the Steering Committee of the Alliance for Research on Corporate Sustainability (ARCS). At ESSEC, Anne teaches courses at all levels around sustainability strategy and sustainable business models.

## Reflections from the interview

In this podcast conversation, Anita interviews Prof. Anne Jacqueminet — a sustainability strategy scholar at ESSEC Business School in Cergy, France. Jacqueminet traces her path from four years as a climate change and sustainability consultant at Ernst & Young, Paris, into a PhD program under the supervision of Prof. Rodolphe Durand.  This transition was motivated by two limitations of consulting: lack of implementation follow-through, and lack of time to dig into *why* certain practices worked. Anne describes the arc of her research, starting with the 2015 JIBS paper on multinationals, where Jacqueminet found that what actually drives subsidiary attention to CSR practices (biodiversity, gender diversity, health and safety) is not top-down headquarters pressure but competition and emulation among local and internal peers. Her 2020 *Organization Science* paper sharpens this: both headquarters and peer pressure hinge on whether a subunit perceives the practice as aligned with its own values, but misalignment makes headquarters pressure actively counterproductive — implementation deteriorates — whereas peer influence stays positive regardless. They discuss how home- and host-country regulatory context shapes whether social or environmental issues dominate, and Jacqueminet describes recent work with Professors Durand, Dovev Lavie, and Tommaso Valletti on curbing big tech externalities.  This work concludes that regulation, self-regulation/purpose, and new competitive business models all contribute to effective implementation. Looking ahead, she sees the most promising frontiers as involving business model innovation, rethinking value capture, treating regulation as endogenous to strategy, and exploring circularity, social innovation, and alternative governance and ownership models.  Anne closes by saying her energy comes from interaction with peers, students, and practitioners, especially when her findings resonate with people actually making decisions in firms.

## Recording

Video: https://vimeo.com/1221155287

## Category

[Where Do We Go From Here?](https://pisquared.theburnescenter.org/category/where-next)

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