Alice Arusyak ZAKARYAN is an Assistant Professor in Strategy and Innovation at Grenoble Ecole de Management since 2019. Her research interests cover organization studies, innovation and science & technology studies. Empirically, she investigates primarily biopharmaceutical and medical device industries as well as life science academic publications and scientists.
The first stream of her research examines the conditions that enhance or hinder an organization’s ability to learn from their experience (i.e. failure, success, or near-failure). The second line of her research is focused on innovation selection and termination decisions as well as the determinants of exploratory search and knowledge creation in organizations. In her more recent work, she is interested in the gender gap in science and innovation and attempts to understand how scientists’ and inventors’ gender influence scientific knowledge creation and innovation & technology development. Her research been published in journals such as Industrial and Corporate Change, Industry and Innovation, Technovation, Technological Forecasing and Social Change.
Alice ZAKARYAN holds Master degree in Management Sciences from SKEMA Business School and earned her PhD in Management Sciences from the University of Côte d’Azur and SKEMA Business School in 2019. Her PhD thesis was shortlisted for Grigor McClelland Doctoral Dissertation Award 2020.