Membership Category

  • Associate

Institution

  • Centre d'étude en responsabilité sociale et écocitoyenneté - CÉRSÉ

Discipline(s)

  • Anthropology
  • Sociology

Expertises

  • Partnership research
  • Transformative research
  • Social entrepreneurship
  • Social and solidarity economy
  • Social responsibility of organizations
  • Governance

Scientific activities and affiliations

  • Rosemont College

Biography

Isabeau Four is an anthropologist by training, holds a post-graduate diploma in sustainable development management and is a doctoral student in sociology at the University of Lyon. Isabeau has been involved for over 15 years in project management related to sustainable development and corporate social responsibility. She helped found CÉRSÉ in 2010.

Having developed a keen understanding of the major issues in sustainable development and corporate social responsibility, Isabeau Four specializes in the fields of social entrepreneurship and the social economy. She heads CÉRSÉ's Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Society research team.

Her approach favors partnership research, transversality, creativity and the mobilization of knowledge to generate and understand social innovation.

In the course of her work, she collaborates and forges links with organizations and entrepreneurs seeking future-oriented, sustainable change.

Affiliated research axes

Change and Transition Management

Planning Optimization

Resource and Product Maximization

Policy levers

The RRECQ is supported by the Fonds de recherche du Québec.
Fonds de recherche - Québec