Julie Labatut is researcher (HDR) in management sciences at INRAE. Her researches focus on innovation processes in the management of animal and plant genetic resources as common goods and the impact of new technologies in organizational and institutional changes in the animal and plant breeding industries. She develops the concept of biosocial organizations in management studies. She is associated researcher at Mines Paris Tech (Centre de Gestion Scientifique). She is also based at UMR GABI, INRAE in Jouy en Josas.