Our Governance

Audencia Business School is an EESC ("Établissement d'Enseignement Supérieur Consulaire" that can be translated to "Consular Higher Education Institution") whose legal status is similar to that of a corporation. The Audencia EESC is supported by the Nantes-St Nazaire Chamber of Commerce and Industry.

3 core values

Through its programs and numerous corporate and academic partnerships in France and around the world, Audencia actively contributes to the development and impact of its region by upholding the following 3 values:

Innovation: acting as a challenger

Cooperation: succeeding together

Responsibility: asserting our difference

Organization
Audencia - Seminaire du personnel 2022

1 Overall Management

13 Departments:

  • Programs
  • Academic Research
  • Executive Education
  • Company and Alumni Relations
  • Career, Training & Corporate Services
  • Learning & Quality Development
  • Digital Transformation & Information Systems
  • Communications & Marketing
  • Human Resources
  • Sales & Admissions
  • International Affairs
  • Corporate Partnerships & Philanthropy
  • Finance & Operations

8 Departments

  • Accounting, Management Control and Economics
  • Entrepreneurship, Strategy and Innovation
  • Information Systems and Supply Chain Management
  • Organization Studies and Ethics
  • Communication, Culture and Languages
  • Finance
  • Marketing
  • Sports

Audencia has a Fundamental Research Lab in partnership with the Centrale Nantes Engineering School.

1 Foundation

The Audencia Foundation (under the aegis of the Fondation de France).

Petit déjeuner Chaire X-REALITES

1 Business Research Center

aimed at producing useful and innovative academic research for business and society.

1 Action Research Program

Behaviors and Financial Vulnerability

8 Corporate Chairs (co-funding):

Discover our corporate chairs
Board of Directors