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Zakaria BABUTSIDZE

Professor

communication and interaction, individual decision-making, green consumer behavior, digital consumer behavior

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Zakaria BABUTSIDZE

Academy

Innovation

Research center

Knowledge, Technology and Organization

Location

Sophia Antipolis

Discipline

Economics
Education
2019
HDR in Economics, Université Côte d'Azur, France
2010
Ph.D. in Economics, Maastricht University, The Netherlands
2005
MA in Economics, Central European University, Hungary
2003
BA in Economics, Tbilisi State University, Georgia
Experience
Full-time academic positions
Since 2021
Professor of Economics, SKEMA Business School, France
2014 - 2021
Associate Professor of Economics, SKEMA Business School, France
2011 - 2014
Assistant Professor of Economics, SKEMA Business School, France
Other academic affiliations and appointments
2014 - 2021
Founding Director of MSc Digital Business and Artificial Intelligence, SKEMA Business School, France
2010 - 2012
Researcher, Center for Social Sciences, Tbilisi State University, Georgia
2010
Visiting Scholar, Robert H.Smith School of Business, University of Maryland, United States of America
2005 - 2010
PhD fellow, UNU-MERIT, Maastricht University, The Netherlands
Other professional experiences
2022
Visiting Scholar, Poole College of Management, North Carolina State University, United States of America
2019
Visiting Research Fellow, Griffith Business School, Griffith University, Australia
2017 - 2019
Adjunct Professor, Sciences Po Paris, France
Since 2011
Economist, OFCE - Sciences Po Paris, France
Research grants, Awards and Honors
Awards and Honors
2015
SMBG special prize for innovation 2015 awarded to MSc Digital Business (in the capacity of the Academic Director), SMBG
2011
The Best Young Scholar Paper Award, DIME final conference / DIME network of Excellence
2009
The Outstanding PhD Paper Award, European Meeting on Applied Evolutionary Economics
Research Grants
2019
Short-term visiting research fellowship, Griffith Business School, Griffith University, Australia
2018
Digital Systems for Humans research grant, Université Côte d'Azur, France
2017
Innovation programme research grant, Université Côte d'Azur, France
2017
Academy 2 research grant, Université Côte d'Azur, France
2016
Academy 3 research grant, Université Côte d'Azur, France
2016
Academy 1 research grant, Université Côte d'Azur, France
2013
Program on contribution economy research grant, Sloan Foundation, United States of America
2010
Academic Caucasus Research Net grant, University of Fribourg, Switzerland
2010
METEOR International Academic Travel grant, Maastricht University, The Netherlands
2008
UM research grant, Maastricht University, The Netherlands
Other research activities
Reviewer for:
Journal of Evolutionary Economics, Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Journal of Economic Interaction and Coordination, Sustainability, Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, European Journal of Marketing, Metroeconomica, Research in Economics, European Management Review, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, European Journal of Law and Economics, Journal of Economic Issues, Research Policy, Management Science, Economics of Innovation and New Technology, Revue de l’OFCE, Computational Economics, International Game Theory Review, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Economic Modelling
Organization of a conference or a research seminar
2015
KTO-OFCE Seminars
2014
OFCE SKEMA Seminar
2013
EMAC Conference (European Marketing Academy), France
2012
OFCE/GREQAM Workshop on Agent-Based Economics
PhD Supervision
Since 2019
D. VINCILEONI, Université Côte d'Azur, PhD thesis, Thesis director
Since 2018
E. MIRZAYEV, SKEMA Business School, PhD thesis, Thesis director
2022
E. COLAK, SKEMA Business School, PhD thesis, Thesis co-director
2021
L. RISO, University of Turin, PhD thesis, Thesis jury member
Other academic activities
2015 - 2016
Guest Editor

Peer-reviewed journal articles

ZYLBERSTEJN, A., BABUTSIDZE, Z., HANAKI, N. and ROUL, M.S. (2024). Anonymity, nonverbal communication and prosociality in digitized interactions: An experiment on charitable giving. Journal of Economic Psychology, 105, pp. 102769.
FISAR, M., GREINER, B., HUBER, C., KATOK, E., OZKES, A. and MANAGEMENT SCIENCE REPRODUCIBILITY COLLABORATION, Z. (2024). Reproducibility in Management Science. Management Science, 70(3), pp. 1343-2022, iii-iv.
BABUTSIDZE, Z., GUERZONI, M. and RISO, L. (2024). Time varying effects and firms' survival: A novel data-driven method for drift identification and variable selection. Eurasian Business Review, 14, pp. 285-318.
TIMUS, N., BARTLETT, M.E., BARTLETT, J.E., EHRLICH, S. and BABUTSIDZE, Z. (2024). Fostering inclusive higher education through universal design for learning and inclusive pedagogy – EU and US faculty perceptions. Higher Education Research & Development, 43(2), pp. 473-487.
ZYLBERSTEJN, A., BABUTSIDZE, Z., HANAKI, N. and HOPFENSITZ, A. (2024). How beautiful people see the world: Cooperativeness judgments of and by beautiful people. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 218, pp. 296-308.
BABUTSIDZE, Z., BLANKENBERG, A.K. and CHAI, A. (2023). The effect of traditional media consumption and internet use on environmental attitudes in Europe. Journal of Evolutionary Economics, 33(2), pp. 309-340.
RAFAI, I., BABUTSIDZE, Z., DELAHAYE, T., HANAKI, N. and ACUNA-AGOST, R. (2022). No Evidence of Attraction Effect Among Recommended Options: A large-scale field experiment on an online flight aggregator. Decision Support Systems, 153, pp. 113672.
BABUTSIDZE, Z., HANAKI, N. and ZYLBERSTEJN, A. (2021). Nonverbal content and swift trust: An experiment on digital communication. Economic Inquiry, 59(4), pp. 1517-1532.
LONG, T., KLEEREBEZEN, R., PANTALÉON, N. and BABUTSIDZE, Z. (2021). Does the fact of undergoing natural hazards influence people's environmental values and ecological commitment? Environmental Values, 30(5), pp. 539-564.
ZYLBERSTEJN, A., BABUTSIDZE, Z. and HANAKI, N. (2021). Predicting trustworthiness across cultures: An experiment. Frontiers in Psychology, 12.
BABUTSIDZE, Z. and IACOPETTA, M. (2021). The Emergence of Money: Computational approaches with fully and boundedly rational agents. Computational Economics, 58(1), pp. 3-26.
BRADLEY, G.L., BABUTSIDZE, Z., CHAI, A. and RESER, J.P. (2020). The role of climate change risk perception, response efficacy, and psychological adaptation in pro-environmental behavior: A two nation study. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 68, pp. 101410.
ZYLBERSTEJN, A., BABUTSIDZE, Z. and HANAKI, N. (2020). Preferences for observable information in a strategic setting: An experiment. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 170, pp. 268-285.
BABUTSIDZE, Z. and VALENTE, M. (2019). A trick of the tail: The role of social networks in shaping distributional properties of experience-good markets. Industrial and Corporate Change, 28(3), pp. 459-475.
BABUTSIDZE, Z. (2018). The rise of electronic social networks and implications for advertisers. Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 137, pp. 27-39.
BABUTSIDZE, Z. (2018). Pirated Economics. South Eastern Europe Journal of Economics, 16(2), pp. 209-219.
BABUTSIDZE, Z. and CHAI, A. (2018). Look at me saving the planet! The imitation of visible green behaviour in local regions and its impact on the climate value-action gap. Ecological Economics, 146, pp. 290-303.
BABUTSIDZE, Z. (2017). Duopolistic Price Competition with Captives. Metroeconomica, 68(4), pp. 903-926.
BABUTSIDZE, Z. (2017). Consumer Interaction and Innovation Incentives. International Journal of Computational Economics and Econometrics, 7(3), pp. 280-301.
TIMUS, N. and BABUTSIDZE, Z. (2016). Pirating European Studies. JCER - Journal of Contemporary European Research, 12(3), pp. 783-791.
BABUTSIDZE, Z. (2016). Innovation, competition and firm size distribution on fragmented markets. Journal of Evolutionary Economics, 26, pp. 143-169.
BABUTSIDZE, Z. and IACOPETTA, M. (2016). Innovation, growth and financial markets. Journal of Evolutionary Economics, 26, pp. 1-24.
BABUTSIDZE, Z. and COWAN, R. (2014). Showing or telling? Local interaction and organization of behavior. Journal of Economic Interaction and Coordination, 9(2), pp. 151-181.
BABUTSIDZE, Z., LOMITASHVILI, T. and TURMANIDZE, K. (2013). The structure of the Georgian blogosphere and its implications for information diffusion. International Journal of Social Network Mining, 1(3-4), pp. 280-297.
BABUTSIDZE, Z., LOMITASHVILI, T. and TURMANIDZE, K. (2013). Influential individuals on social networks: An example of Facebook in Georgia. European Scientific Journal, 9(10), pp. 320-330.
BABUTSIDZE, Z. (2012). How consumers make choices? A survey of evidence. Journal of Economic Surveys, 26(4), pp. 752-762.
BABUTSIDZE, Z. (2012). A comment on "On ants and voters: Maximum entropy predictions of agent-based models with recruitment" by Sylvain Barde. Revue de l’OFCE, 124, pp. 33-36.
BABUTSIDZE, Z. (2012). A reply to Tiziana Assenza's comment on "Asymmetric (S,s) pricing: Implications for monetary policy. Revue de l’OFCE, 124, pp. 44-46.
BABUTSIDZE, Z. (2012). Asymmetric (S,s) pricing: Implications for monetary policy. Revue de l’OFCE, 124, pp. 177-204.
BABUTSIDZE, Z. (2011). Returns to product promotion when consumers are learning how to consume. Journal of Evolutionary Economics, 21, pp. 783-801.
BABUTSIDZE, Z. (2011). On the performance of the representative agent during out-of equilibrium dynamics. Economics Bulletin, 31(1), pp. 874-882.

Conference proceedings

BABUTSIDZE, Z., DELICIK, E.B. and DIBIAGGIO, L. (2024). Co-Authorship as the Means to Build Social Capital and its Effects on Scientific Productivity. Academy of Management Proceedings, 2024(1).
DELICIK, E.B., DIBIAGGIO, L. and BABUTSIDZE, Z. (2023). Collaboration Networks and Inventor’s Creativity: The Interplay Between Knowledge and Brokerage. Academy of Management Proceedings.
BABUTSIDZE, Z., DI RUSSO, M., DA DACOSTA PEREIRA, C., IACOPETTA, M. and TETTAMANZI, A. (2022). Agent-Based Modeling for Studying Spontaneous Emergence of Money.
MIRZAYEV, E. and BABUTSIDZE, Z. (2022). User control and acceptance of recommender systems. SAIS 2022.
BABUTSIDZE, Z. and VINCILEONI, D. (2022). Trails of automated social bots. SAIS 2022, pp. 14.
BABUTSIDZE, Z. and VINCILEONI, D. (2022). Behavioral changes associated with interacting with bots on Twitter.
MIRZAYEV, E., BABUTSIDZE, Z., RAND, W. and DELAHAYE, T. (2021). Use of clustering for consideration set modelling in recommender systems., 54, pp. 4270-4278.

Book chapters

BABUTSIDZE, Z. and CHAI, A. (2023). Evolutionary Consumption Theory. In: K. Dopfer, R. Nelson, J. Potts and A. Pyka eds. Handbook of Evolutionary Economics. 1st ed. Routledge, pp. 261-274.
TIMUS, N. and BABUTSIDZE, Z. (2022). Building Human Capital for the Twenty-First Century. In: Kaplan Andreas (ed.). Digital Transformation and Disruption of Higher Education. 1st ed. Cambridge University Press, pp. 147-158.
LONG, T., PANTALÉON, N., KLEEREBEZEN, R. and BABUTSIDZE, Z. (2018). Perceptions du changement climatiques et engagement écologique. In: Guide de la transition écologique et citoyenne. 1st ed. AT06, pp. 83-86.
BABUTSIDZE, Z. (2012). Consumer learning through interaction: effects on aggregate outcomes. In: Guido BUENSTORF (ed.). Evolution, Organization and Economic Behavior. 1st ed. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing.

Books and book editor

BABUTSIDZE, Z. (2010). Essays on Economies with Heterogeneous Interacting Consumers. Maastricht: Datawyse, 135 pages.

Conference presentations

KOERNER, J., STAICU, A.M., RAND, W. and BABUTSIDZE, Z. (2024). Are Users Susceptible to Interaction with an Automated Account Different From Those That Do Not? In: Joint Statistical Meetings. Portland, OR.
BABUTSIDZE, Z., KOERNER, J., RAND, W. and STAICU, A.M. (2023). Who is likely to interact with bots on Twitter? In: Symposium on Statistical Challenges in Electronic Commerce Research (SCECR2023). Bogota.
BABUTSIDZE, Z., WLODARCZYK-BOUDENOT, E. and ABDEL MALAK, I. (2022). Prospects of AI-assisted medical treatment acceptance. In: SophI.A. Summit. Sophia Antipolis.
MIRZAYEV, E. and BABUTSIDZE, Z. (2022). User control and acceptance of recommender systems. In: 2nd Artificial Intelligence in Management conference. Los Angeles (CA).
BABUTSIDZE, Z. and VINCILEONI, D. (2022). The Impact of Interacting with Malicious Automated Twitter Bots on User Behavior and Generated Content. In: 2nd Artificial Intelligence in Management conference. Los Angeles (CA).
MIRZAYEV, E. and BABUTSIDZE, Z. (2022). User control and acceptance of recommender systems. In: Southern Association for Information Systems conference. Myrtle Beach (SC).
BABUTSIDZE, Z. and VINCILEONI, D. (2022). Trails of automated social bots. In: Southern Association for Information Systems conference. Myrtle Beach (SC).
BABUTSIDZE, Z. and VINCILEONI, D. (2022). Behavioral changes associated with interacting with bots on Twitter. In: Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences. Online.
BABUTSIDZE, Z., BONETTO, F., HANAKI, N. and IACOPETTA, M. (2021). Money Supply and Speculation. In: Western Economic Association annual conference. Online.
MIRZAYEV, E., BABUTSIDZE, Z. and RAND, W. (2021). Use of clustering for consideration set modeling in recommender systems. In: HICSS-54: Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences. ONLINE.
MIRZAYEV, E., BABUTSIDZE, Z., RAND, W. and DELAHAYE, T. (2021). Use of clustering for consideration set modelling in recommender systems. In: 54th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences. Online.
MC CABE, M. and BABUTSIDZE, Z. (2020). Scientific Prizes And Post-Award Attention: Evidence From The Nobel Prize In Economics. In: Invited Seminar: Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition. Munich.
RAFAI, I., BABUTSIDZE, Z., HANAKI, N., DELAHAYE, T. and ACUNA-AGOST, R. (2020). Airfare choice in the Lab. In: SAMET20. Online.
MIRZAYEV, E. and BABUTSIDZE, Z. (2020). Recommender systems with option clustering. In: SAMET20. Online.
BOUHLEL, I. and BABUTSIDZE, Z. (2020). Muti-attribute search model with recall. In: SAMET20. Online.
RAND, W. and BABUTSIDZE, Z. (2020). What makes you click next? In: SAMET20. Online.
MIRZAYEV, E. and BABUTSIDZE, Z. (2020). Recommender systems with option clustering. In: SCECR2020. Online.
RAND, W. and BABUTSIDZE, Z. (2020). What makes you click next? In: SCECR2020. Online.
BABUTSIDZE, Z. (2019). Polarisation in green attitudes in Europe. In: European Ecological Economics Society Conference. Turku.
BABUTSIDZE, Z. (2019). Attraction effect in Flight Booking. In: CODE@MIT conference. Cambridge.
BABUTSIDZE, Z., HANAKI, N. and ZYLBERSTEJN, A. (2018). Digital Communication and Trust. In: International Conference of the French Association of Experimental Economics. Nice.
BABUTSIDZE, Z., HANAKI, N. and ZYLBERSTEJN, A. (2018). Digital Communication and Trust. In: Economic Science Association World Meetings. Berlin.
BABUTSIDZE, Z. and IACOPETTA, M. (2018). The emergence of Money: Computational approaches with fully and boundedly rational agents. In: Eastern Economic Association Annual Conference. Boston.
BABUTSIDZE, Z. and CHAI, A. (2018). Climate change risk perceptions and corresponding consumer actions in France. In: Inter-disciplinary Workshop on Climate Change Risk Perception and Propensity to Act. Sophia Antipolis.
BABUTSIDZE, Z. and SOSCIA, I. (2018). What drives green consumer behavior? A cross-regional appraisal. In: Inter-disciplinary Workshop on Climate Change Risk Perception and Propensity to Act. Sophia Antipolis.
LONG, T., KLEEREBEZEN, R. and BABUTSIDZE, Z. (2018). Climate change adaptation after extreme weather event experience. In: Inter-disciplinary Workshop on Climate Change Risk Perception and Propensity to Act. Sophia Antipolis.
IACOPETTA, M. and BABUTSIDZE, Z. (2017). The Emergence of Money: Computational approaches with fully and boundedly rational agents. In: Workshop on Complex Evolving System Approach in Economics. Nice.
IACOPETTA, M. and BABUTSIDZE, Z. (2017). Equilibrium Selection in Search Models: A Dynamic Analysis. In: Eastern Economic Association Annual Conference. New York.
BABUTSIDZE, Z. and MC CABE, M. (2017). Nobel Prizes in Economics and Post-Award Attention: Who Cares About What? In: The fragmentation of economics and the new role of the history of economic thought. Torino.
BABUTSIDZE, Z. (2016). Look at me saving the planet! In: TEDxJFUJena. Jena.
BABUTSIDZE, Z. (2016). Trick of the tail. In: Workshop on Complex Evolving System Approach in Economics. Sophia Antipolis.
BABUTSIDZE, Z. (2016). Look at me saving the planet. In: Governance in complex world. Valencia.
BABUTSIDZE, Z. (2015). Changing routs of word of mouth: implications for product promotion. In: WEHIA (Workshop on Economics and Heterogeneous Interacting Agents). Sophia Antipolis.
BABUTSIDZE, Z. (2015). A Trick of the Tail: The Role of Social Networks in Experience-Good Market Dynamics. In: Eastern Economic Association Annual Conference. New York City NY.
BABUTSIDZE, Z. (2015). Trick of the tail. In: EMNet Conference. Cape Town.
BABUTSIDZE, Z. (2014). Superstar Incentives: collaborations, awards and their impact on the development of economic science. In: Innovation and Governance in Development. Maastricht.
BABUTSIDZE, Z. (2014). A Trick of the Tail: The Role of Social Networks in Experience-Good Market Dynamics. In: Complexity in Business annual conference. Washington DC.
BABUTSIDZE, Z. (2014). Local interaction among consumers of information goods. In: ISS - International Schumpeter Society. Jena.
BABUTSIDZE, Z. (2013). Influential Individuals on Social Networks: An Example of Facebook in Georgia. In: Global Multidisciplinary e-conference. Online.
BABUTSIDZE, Z. and MC CABE, M. (2013). Superstar incentives: Collaborations awards and their impact on the development of economic science. In: REER Conference - Workshop on Economics of Knowledge Contribution and Distribution. Atlanta.
BABUTSIDZE, Z. (2013). Public opinion through the lens of blogosphere before and after Georgian 2012 Elections. In: ECPR conference. Bordeaux.
BABUTSIDZE, Z. (2013). Product Innovation and Competition on Fragmented Markets. In: EMAC Conference (European Marketing Academy). Sophia Antipolis.
BABUTSIDZE, Z. (2012). Consumer interaction and innovation incentives. In: Governance in complex world. Nice.
BABUTSIDZE, Z. (2011). Consumer interaction and innovation incentives. In: EAEPE conference. Vienna.
BABUTSIDZE, Z. (2011). Advertising and word-of-mouth in motion picture industry. In: Annual Complexity in Business Conference. Washington DC.
BABUTSIDZE, Z. (2011). Advertising and word-of-mouth in motion picture industry. In: Computational Social Sciences Society of America Annual Conference. Santa Fé.
BABUTSIDZE, Z. (2011). The structure of Georgian blogosphere and implications for information diffusion. In: ECPR conference. Reykjavik.
BABUTSIDZE, Z. (2011). Price competition on networked duopolistic markets. In: Final DIME scientific conference. Maastricht.
BABUTSIDZE, Z. (2011). Advertising and word-of-mouth in Motion picture industry. In: Annual conference of eastern economic association. New York.
BABUTSIDZE, Z. (2011). R&D behavior and the emergence of fat tailed firm size distributions. In: Annual conference of eastern economic association. New York.

Faculty research seminar presentations

BABUTSIDZE, Z. (2019). Can you read my face? In: Griffith Business School. Gold Coast.
BABUTSIDZE, Z. (2019). Experimenting with flights. In: Griffith Institute for Tourism. Gold Coast.
BABUTSIDZE, Z. and IACOPETTA, M. (2018). Emergence of Money: Computational approaches with fully and boundedly rational agents. In: Harvard University, Kennedy School of Government - Invited Seminar. Cambridge (MA).
BABUTSIDZE, Z. (2013). Duopolistic competition with captives. In: Friedrich Schiller University. Jena, DE.
BABUTSIDZE, Z. (2010). Local interaction and organization of behavior. In: ETH Zurich. Zurich, CH.
BABUTSIDZE, Z. (2010). Local interaction and organization of behavior. In: Erasmus University. Rotterdam, NL.
BABUTSIDZE, Z. (2010). Local interaction and organization of behavior. In: University of Maryland. College Park (MD), USA.