Professor Pascal BARNETO was appointed as director in March 2017, elected by the laboratory board, and is a member of the EES (Economics, Business and Society) doctoral school board (ED 42). The Deputy Director is Professor Julien CUSIN. Ms. Bérangère FERRARI is the administrative head.

IRGO was created in 2004. It is the result of the merger of three previously existing disciplinary teams: CREGE (marketing and business strategy), CRECCI (accounting & audit) and CREFF (research center for family-run and financial business). Over the years, further teams were added, in chronological order of creation: “Entrepreneurship”, “Banking & Financial Management”, “Family-run Businesses” (resulting from the division of CREFF into two separate teams), and lastly, “Human Resources Management”.

The aim of IRGO is to federate these six research teams (Accounting & Audit, Entrepreneurship, Family Businesses, Banking & Financial Management, Marketing and Human Resources) around three transversal topic areas: Wine, CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility) and Digital Science. The objective of these themes is to raise the profile of the laboratory as an academic research unit (EA) in Management Sciences as well as for all public or private regional players in the Nouvelle Aquitaine Region.

IRGO consists of six teams:

• Team 1: Accounting & Audit: F. POURTIER, Director

• Team 2: Entrepreneurship: T. VERSTRAETE, Director

• Team 3: Family Businesses: G. HIRIGOYEN, Director

• Team 4: Banking & Financial Management: J. FOUILLOUX-THOMASSET, Director

• Team 5: Marketing: J.P. GALAN, Director

• Team 6: Human Resources L. BENRAISS-NOAILLES, Director.