- Rennes , France
Simon Cornée
Simon Cornée, PhD in Management Science (finance), is a Full Professor at the Faculty of Economics of the University of Rennes (France) and a researcher at CREM CNRS and at CERMi (Université Libre de Bruxelles and Université de Mons). He serves as co-editor of Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics. His research interests lie at the intersection of finance and governance on the one hand, and social economy, cooperatives and commons on the other. He is a specialist in social and cooperative finance. He also works on the governance of cooperatives and the contribution of these organisations to society and the environment.
Publications
1) Cornée, S. (2019). The relevance of soft information for predicting small business credit default: Evidence from a social bank. Journal of Small Business Management, 57(3), 699-719. 2) Cornée, S., Le Guernic, M., & Rousselière, D. (2020). Governing common-property assets: Theory and evidence from agriculture. Journal of Business Ethics, 166, 691-710. 3) Cornée, S., Kalmi, P., & Szafarz, A. (2020). The business model of social banks. Kyklos, 73(2), 196-226. 4) Cornée, S., Jegers, M., & Szafarz, A. (2022). Feasible institutions of social finance: A taxonomy. Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, 178(3), 280-310. 5) Cornée, S., Rousseliere, D., & Thelen, V. (2025). The environmental benefits of grassroots cooperatives in agriculture. Ecological Economics, 230, 108513.