Dr Clément LONGONDJO

Qualifications

• PhD in Management, Rennes School of Business, France (2020)
• MSc in Development Planning, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, SA (2011).
• MSc in Politics and Administrative Sciences, Université de Kinshasa, DRC (2004)

Work Experience

Academic

• Rennes School of Business, Rennes France.

Lecturer September 2014 – present

Courses taught :

Graduate programme (PGE 3, MSc)

– Corporate Social Responsability (CSR)

Undergraduate programme (IBPM 2)

– Business Ethics

– Guidelines for Writing Report

Research, GP Supervisor : (2014 to date)

– Areas : Sustainable development, eco-conception, CSR, Business Ethics, Circular Economy. Solid waste management and recycling.

• University of Rennes 1 IGR-IAE, Rennes France

Lecturer January 2015 – May 2018

Course taught :

Graduate programme (Master / international mobility)

– Social Responsability and Ethics in Management

• Institut Mines – Telecom Business School, Evry France.

Lecturer January 2017 – July 2017

Courses taught :

Graduate programme:

– Corporate Social Responsability (CSR)

– Business Ethics

– Digital Ethics

Non Academic

• Learning Center of Rennes School of Business

Helpdesk Officer (October 2014 to present)

– Students research assistance.

– Running trainings for the use of Learning Center resources.

– Books management (borrowing and returning).

– Boxes management.

• Quest Research Services (QRS) SA

Researcher (August, 2011 to August 2012).

– Fieldwork (interviews, focus groups, data collection).

– Conducting qualitative and quantitative researches.

– Research proposals writing and reporting.

– Data capturing, research quality verification and analysis.

– Running research briefing.

• Nemai consulting, Johannesburg South Africa

Research Assistant (2009 Nov to July 2011: full time permanent)

– Assisting Director with different project management and admin.

– Attending clients meeting, reporting project progress.

– Fieldwork (interviews, focus groups, marketing, sales …).

– Conducting qualitative and quantitative researches.

– Conducting Social and Environmental Impact Assessment.

– Monitoring and evaluation (M&E) of project progress and results.

– Research proposals writing and reporting.

– Data capturing, research quality verification and analysis.

– Project management, logistics, scheduling site visits, accommodation and flights arrangement.

– Writing proposal and running Training.

Intellectual contributions

Refereed Articles

• Longondjo Etambakonga, C., Roloff, J. (2020) Protecting environment or people? Pitfalls and merits of informal labor in the Congolese recycling industry. Journal of Business Ethics, Volume 161, Issue 4, pp. 815–834
• Simatele, D. and Longondjo, E. C. (2015). Scavenging in Kinshasa: Beyond livelihood strategies for the urban poor in the DR Congo. Habitat International, 49, 266-274. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.habitatint.2015.05.029
• Etambakonga, C. L. (2013). Barriers to widespread biomass energy in South Africa. The Journal of Macro Trends in Energy and Sustainability, 1(1), 36-49.

Refereed proceedings

• Cyrlene Claasen, Clement Longondjo. Challenges to Equal Opportunity Practices – Social Justice in the Namibian Trophy Hunting Industry. Ghana Scholarly Society Conference, Bradford, UK, 19-21 June 2024
• Clement Longondjo, Cyrlene Claasen. Managing the wicked problem of waste management and recycling through stakeholder perspective: the interplay between rationality and irrationality. Ghana Scholarly Society Conference, Bradford, UK,  19-21 June 2024
• Clement Longondjo, Lara Bertola. Is informal waste-picking a form of modern slavery? Ending human exploitation in waste management and recycling in the Global South. Ghana Scholarly Society Conference, Bradford, UK,  19-21 June 2024
• Clement Longondjo, Colin C. Williams. Barriers to successful formal entrepreneurship: a case study of waste recycling enterprises in Kinshasa, DRC. Ghana Scholarly Society Conference, Bradford, UK,  19-21 June 2024
• Longondjo, C., Bertola, L. Managing the wicked problem of waste management and recycling through stakeholder perspectives: the interplay between rationality and irrationality. ABEN’s 13th annual conference, “Business Ethics: Stakeholders, Struggles, and Solutions”, Macquarie University, Australia, 30/11-1/12/223
• Longondjo, C. The limits of freedom of waste-picking in Kinshasa: A New Form of Human Enslavement! 7th CEnSE Urban and Regional Economics Workshop on Social Interactions in Regions, Hällsnäs, Sweden, October 25 to 27, 2023
• Roloff, J., Longondjo, C. The two faces of routines: Combating and enabling process failure. 83rd AOM, Boston, USA, 2-8 August 2023
• Longondjo, C., Roloff, J. How routine dynamics of citizens, informal workers and recycling business contribute to waste management being an unsurmountable challenge in Kinshasa. EGOS 2020, Hamburg, Germany, Virtual, 2-4 July 2020

Chapters in books

• Longondjo, C. 2021. The Rise of Virtual Reality Technology in Online Courses: Ethical Issues and Policy Recommendations. Prof. Ali G. Hessami Ed. Factoring Ethics in Technology, Policy Making and Regulation, Open Access book, IntechOpen, London
• Longondjo, E., C. (2015). Urbanization and Poverty in Kinshasa: Thinking Beyond 2015 Millennium Development Goals. In Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in Retrospect (pp. 31-44). Springer, Cham.
• Longondjo E. C.  & Mugangu, T. (2020). The role of responsible tourism in peace-building and social inclusion in war risk cities: Evidence from Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo, In Tourism and Urban Risk: contemporary African perspectives, ISBN 9780367904142, December 22, 2020, Forthcoming by Routledge, 296 Pages.