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Publications, status stated plainly.

Doctoral research and transparent data packages. Each item says what it is, how far it has progressed and what the reader can inspect.

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The doctorate, 2025 to 2028

In fieldwork; defence expected in 2028.

2025202620272028 Enrolled 2025,proposal graded 19/20 Fieldwork 2026–2027 Defence expected Now

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From the doctorate’s dates in the site data: enrolment by year, the proposal grade without a date, fieldwork by quarter, the defence by its expected month. Now: 27 Oct 2026.
Doctorate
Fieldwork under wayDBA at EM Normandie
Data packages
, each with its files and its method
Working papers
None yet, with no findings so far
ORCID
0009-0008-2450-5106

Doctoral research

One study, in progress.

Doctoral research · 2026Fieldwork under way

Commercial integration after a cross-border acquisition

EM Normandie Business School

A doctoral study of what happens to sales and marketing in the first year after a cross-border acquisition. Fieldwork is under way; there are no findings yet. An abstract is accepted for presentation at the 5th eM&Ai Annual Conference, University of Bristol, 7–8 December 2026, co-authored with Prof. Muriel Durand.

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Programme
Doctorate in Business Administration (DBA)
Ethics
EM Normandie research-ethics charter
Method
Qualitative expert interviews, Critical Incident Technique, Gioia methodology
  1. Enrolled2025
  2. Extended Research ProposalGraded 19/20
  3. FieldworkPilots Q3/Q4 2026 · main wave 2027Now
  4. DissertationPhase ahead
  5. DefenceExpected October 2028, Paris

Data packages

Three data packages.

Each one states its limits in the open: failed diagnostics, collection defects, and what would make the finding wrong.

  1. Data package

    Published 10 Aug 2026

    Data and failed diagnostics published

    Gross-margin panel: 53 cloud companies across 17 quarters

    A transparent panel computed from SEC filings, with its codebook, exclusions and the two diagnostics that did not survive testing.

    Firm-quarters
    901, balanced
    Window
    2022Q1–2026Q1
    Source
    SEC EDGAR XBRL company facts
    View the data package Read the essay: What AI did to cost of goods sold is not visible in the line everyone quotes

  2. Data package

    Published 9 Aug 2026

    Corpus and codebook published

    Pricing-page corpus: 64 listed cloud vendors

    What 64 listed cloud vendors show on the pricing page a visitor can actually reach, in English and German. The corpus, the codebook, the frame, and two collection defects recorded rather than buried.

    Vendors
    64, one frame
    Language arms
    English and German
    Defects
    2 recorded, not buried
    View the data package Read the essay: Your pricing page publishes which buyers you won’t separate

  3. Replication package

    Published 27 Jul 2026

    Protocol, responses and script published

    Retrieval audit: the data and protocol

    The pre-registered protocol, the full response set, the coding and the script behind "What peer review deleted, the web kept." Re-runnable in an afternoon.

    Assistants
    4, with web search
    Questions
    6, two of them controls
    Licence
    CC BY 4.0
    View the data package Read the essay: What peer review deleted, the web kept

Working papers

None yet.

Fieldwork is under way; there are no findings yet. Published work will appear on ORCID.

ORCID iD

0009-0008-2450-5106

Where the published work will appear.

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