Following an initiative launched by Rodolphe Durand, the “Society and Organizations” (SnO) Research Center federates scholars from several disciplines of Organization Science.

Diane-Laure Arjaliès

Diane-Laure Arjaliès is Assistant Professor in the Accounting and Control Department of HEC Paris. She graduated from ESSEC Business School with an MBA ‘Grande Ecole’ and a Ph.D. in management. She also earned a joint M.Sc. in organizational theory from the University Paris West Nanterre La Défense, ESCP Europe, Ecole des Mines de Paris and Ecole Polytechnique and a Doctorate from the University Paris West Nanterre La Défense. Diane-Laure Arjaliès’ research examines the introduction of non-financial performance measures in management accounting and control systems. She is particularly interested in the development of Socially Responsible Investment (SRI) in asset management and in the management of CO2 emissions in the chemical and building sectors. She has articles published in the Journal of Business Ethics, as well as in a collective book of Corporate Social Responsibility. Before joining the HEC Paris faculty, she was an SRI analyst in a French asset management company and a research fellow at Ecole Polytechnique (Palaiseau, France), ESSEC Business School (Cergy, France) and Manchester Business School (Manchester, UK). In 2008 and 2009, she was also invited as a visiting researcher at Uppsala University (Uppsala, Sweden) and UQAM (Montreal, Canada). She teaches Cost Concepts (M.Sc.) and Management Accounting & Control (MBA & Ph.D.).

Laure Celerier

Laure Celerier is a PhD student at HEC.

Eve Chiapello

Eve Chiapello is Professor at the HEC School of Management, Paris, France. She teaches Economic Sociology, Organization Theory, Qualitative Research Methods and the Social Studies of Management Instruments. She has created in 2006 a new specialized program for the students of her school dedicated to the study of “alternative management” (solidarity-based economy, corporate social responsability, social entrepreneurship, ecological transformation of economy,…) in which she teaches the history of criticisms of capitalism and the impact of social movements on the transformation of management practices and she founded the Observatory of Alternative Management.She is now doing some work in the sociology of accounting, considering accounting categories as objects that perform the ‘economic reality’. Other part of her work is related to  the contemporary transformation of management in relation to the actual criticisms, social and ecological, of capitalism. She has published the following books: Artistes versus Managers, (Paris: Métailié, 1998) and  Le Nouvel Esprit du Capitalisme, (Paris: Gallimard, 1999, with Luc Boltanski), translated to English (The New Spirit of Capitalism,Verso, 2005). She has also published several articles in Accounting, Organizations and Society, Comptabilité-Contrôle-Audit, Sociologie du travail, Critical Perspectives on Accounting, Discourse and Society, European Journal of Social Theory,  Blätter für Deutsche und International Politik, Berliner Journal für Soziologie.

Marco Clemente

Marco Clemente is a Ph.D. candidate in Strategic Management at HEC Paris. He is currently visiting New York University (NYU). He is interested in studying the socio-institutional determinants of firms’ competitive advantage.His research links Competitive Dynamics literature and Institutional Theory. In his dissertation, he studies the Global Advertising Self-Regulation sector.

Before joining academia, he was marketing manager for a multinational company in the luxury and beauty sector. He holds a Msc in Management from the London School of Economics and Political Science.

Frédéric Dalsace

Frédéric Dalsace holds an M.Sc. degree from HEC and an MBA with honors from the Harvard Business School and both an M.Sc. and a Ph.D. in Management from INSEAD. He teaches New Product Development and B2B Marketing. Most of his research concentrates on inter-organizational (B2B) issues such as outsourcing, product development, and buyer-seller relationships, but Frédéric is also working on non-traditional branding strategies. His thesis work has been awarded the Canon Foundation Fellowship and the 2001 ISBM (Institute for the Study of Business Market) prize for the best doctoral research in B2B, and he has published in academic journals such as the Strategic Management Journal, Harvard Business Review and Business Horizons. Frédéric Dalsace was awarded the HEC Foundation Prize for the best research piece published by the HEC Faculty in 2004, and the 2005 ACA Prize for the best research published in the area of purchasing strategy. In 2006, he was awarded the business school-wide BNP-Paribas Teaching Award. Frédéric Dalsace has more than 10 years of experience in the business world. He worked in the sales and marketing departments of several industrial companies such as Michelin and CarnaudMetalbox (packaging), both in Europe and in Japan. Before returning to Academia, he was a strategy consultant with McKinsey & Company for more than three years.

Adina Dabu

Adina Dabu received her Ph.D. in Human Resources and Industrial Relations from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her primary research interests are in the areas of entrepreneurship and the diffusion of management knowledge, strategic human resource management and the methodology of grounded theory and comparative analysis. Her current research explores the role of nascent consulting markets in the transnational diffusion of management practices. Her extensive fieldwork in this area draws on models of decision-making in early markets to reveal the micro-foundations of management practice diffusion and the role of institutional entrepreneurship activities in the build up of new institutional environments. Adina’s theoretical agenda explores entrepreneurship frameworks such as effectuation theory and Austrian economics by emphasizing their understated, yet empirically important theoretic assumptions. In the field of strategic human resource management she has contributed to the understanding of the role of human resources and human resource management in the generation of distinct types of economic rents. Her work has been published in Organization Science, Journal of Industrial Relations and Eastern European Economics.

Rodolphe Durand

Rodolphe Durand is Professor at HEC Paris where he chairs the Strategy department, and is in charge of the MBA and PhD specialization in strategy. He is Visiting Professor at Cass Business School (City University, London). He graduated from HEC (MSc and PhD) and La Sorbonne (MPhil). His primary research interests concern why and how strategic, social, and institutional dimensions (resources, social structure, and institutional logics) determine the conditions at which organizations and firms can develop a competitive advantage. His works analyze the evolution of industries where intellectual capital and creativity matter: business schools, French haute cuisine, biotech, movie, and industrial design industries. They have been published in journals including Academy of Management Review, American Journal of Sociology, and Strategic Management Journal. Rodolphe received the “Best Young French Researcher Award” (AIMS, 1999), the “R. Scott Award 2005” (American Sociological Association, 2005), and the “HEC Foundation Best paper of the year (2006)”. Rodolphe acts as associate editor for the European Management Review, and as editorial board member for the Strategic Management Journal, Strategic Organization, and the Journal of Management Studies. He was the Academic Chair of the European Academy of Management conference that gathered 800+ international scholars in May 2007 on HEC campus. Rodolphe is also a prolific author of books, including Organizational Evolution and Strategic Management (Sage, 2006).

Bernard Garrette

Bernard Garrette holds a M.Sc. in Management (1985) and a Ph.D. in Strategic Management (1991), both from HEC. His research interests focus on competitive and collaborative corporate strategy. He has published several articles on strategic alliances between firms, in various journals: Strategic Management Journal, Journal of International Business Studies, Research Policy, European Management Journal, European Business Forum… He has co-authored three books with Pierre Dussauge: Stratégie d’Entreprise: Etudes de Cas (1993), Les Stratégies d’Alliance (1995) which won the McKinsey award for best management book published in France, and Cooperative Strategy (1999). He is also the main editor and one of the authors of Strategor (2009), the leading strategic management textbook in France. Bernard Garrette has been a visiting professor at London Business School (1997 and 1999) and at the University of Cambridge (1995-1996). He has also worked as a consultant (Senior Practice Expert in Corporate Finance and Strategy) with McKinsey&Company in 2000-2001. In 2004, he received the Pierre Vernimmen Teaching Award, endowed by BNP-Paribas. In 2009, he was awarded the Pedagogical Innovation prize, sponsored by the HEC Foundation Bernard Garrette holds the Atos-Origin Chair on “growth strategies and integration management”, created in 2006.

Claire Garnier

Claire Garnier is a PhD student at HEC.

Panikos Georgallis

Panikos is a PhD candidate at the Department of Strategy and Business Policy of HEC Paris. His research interests revolve around sustainability issues and the interaction of social movements and organizations. He is currently studying the role of the environmental movement in the emergence of renewable energy technologies. He is also interested in innovation and the effects of firms’ experience on their innovating patterns and performance in new industries. Prior to joining HEC he worked in a technology consulting firm and specialized in project delivery life-cycle. He holds a Master in Techno-Economic Systems and a diploma in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens.

Anne Jacqueminet

Anne Jacqueminet is a PhD student in strategy at HEC.

Julien Jourdan

Julien Jourdan is a Ph.D. candidate in Strategic Management at HEC Paris, doing research at the intersection of strategy and economic sociology. His research interests lie in the socio-institutional determinants of firms’ competitive advantage, specifically in industries where several institutional logics compete. In his dissertation, he studies the introduction of investment funds carrying a financial logic in the film production industry in France. His work primarily focuses on media and creative industries. Prior to his academic activities, Julien was an executive in the movie industry. He graduated from ESCP and Paris Sorbonne University.

Ilze Kilveniece

Ilze Kivleniece is a PhD student in strategy at HEC.

Asli Kozan

Asli Kozan is a PhD candidate in Strategic Management at HEC Paris.

Her research is centered around the variability of firm strategies towards social and environmental issues.  She has an undergraduate degree from Middle East Technical University (METU) in Turkey and a master’s degree from the University of Essex in England.

She has experience in regional development projects within the United Nations and the European Commission.

Pierre-Antoine Kremp

Pierre-Antoine Kremp is an assistant professor in strategy at HEC.

Michel Lander

Michel Lander is an assistant professor in management at HEC.

Romain Laufer

Romain Laufer is Professor of Marketing at HEC-Paris. BA in economics Paris University , M.A. and PhD Cornell University). He teaches services marketing, institutional communication, the management of major risks as well as the philosophical and social foundations of management. His research has be devoted to the development of a multidisciplinary approach of management based on the notions of “system of legitimacy” and of “history of systems of legitimacy”. Its purpose was to articulate in a rigorous manner marketing, management, social sciences and philosophy. This approach has been developed trough time in many publications articles and books such as: Management Public : Gestion et Légitimité (Dalloz 1980), Marketing Democracy Public Opinion and Media formation in Democratic societies (transaction Books 1990), L’Entreprise face aux Risques Majeurs : à propos de l’incertitude des normes sociales (L’Harmattan 1993), Les Nouvelles Fondations de la Gestion :Eléments d’épistémologie de la recherche en management (Vuibert 2001), Le Libéralisme l’Innovation et la Question des Limites (L’Harmattan 2003). He is co editor of Politiques et Management Public (PMP), Member of the Review Board of Recherche et Application en Marketing (RAM) and Consumer market and Culture (CMC). He is a member of the scientific council of the College international de Philosophie (CIPh).

Elie Matta

Elie Matta earned his Ph.D. in Business Administration in 2004, from the Richard Ivey School of Business, The University of Western Ontario, Canada. His research interests are primarily in agency theory and prospect theory, with focus on chief executive officers, executive compensation, managerial risk taking, and international strategy. His research has appeared in the leading academic journals, Academy of Management Journal, Organization Science, and Strategic Management Journal. He regularly presents his research in international academic conferences and serves as an ad hoc reviewer for various academic journals and research grant foundations. He has received various awards including the J. Armand Bombardier Ph.D. Fellowship in Global Management and the University of Western Ontario Plan for Excellence Award, and the Emerald Management Reviews Citation of Excellence Award. His research interests are in the areas of corporate governance, executive pay, and corporate social responsibility. He has so far concentrated on mechanisms of executive and their implications on executive risk taking and firm performance. Drawing on agency theory and prospect theory, he has provided a complementary understanding of incentive alignment through stock options and equity grants. He is currently investigating the role of organizational complexity in the sensemaking and response to the multi-dimensionality of social issues in management.

Dahlia Mani

Dalhia Mani received a Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota, Sociology Department. Her research contributes to Organizational heory, Strategy, and Economic Sociology. Current research projects focus on the structure of the alliance, joint venture, and acquisition networks in India and the United States. Her research compares these networks as they evolve over time. She has taught a course on Strategic Management in the Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota, and has also assisted in courses on Social Theory and Organizations. Her research has received several prestigious awards including a National Science Foundation Dissertation Research Award, and the Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship from the University of Minnesota. Her dissertation paper won the Best Graduate Student Paper Award at the Sociological Research Institute, University of Minnesota.

Afshin Mehrpouya

Afshin Mehrpouya is an assistant professor in accounting at HEC.

Denisa Mindruta

Denisa Mindruta joined HEC Paris School of Management as an Assistant Professor in the Strategy Group in September 2008. Her research and teaching interests include university-industry technology transfer, the management of technology (particularly in two-sided markets contexts), and the political economy of innovation. An important line of Denisa’s research looks into how firms identify and capture complementarities in relationship to other firms, organizations, and the institutional environment in which they operate. Her earlier work in this area examining firms’ participation in policy networks has been published in the American Journal of Political Science. Work in progress examines the complementarity between firms’ strategies of innovation (exploration versus exploitation) and macro institutional factors.  Denisa’s research has been recognized with several awards and fellowships, including the 2008 Best Conference Paper Award in the Academy of Management Technology and Innovation Management Division, a selection among the finalists in the INFORMS/Organization Science 2007 Dissertation Competition, and a Dissertation Fellowship from the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation. Denisa earned a PhD in Strategic Management from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a master’s degree in Political Science from the State University of New York at Stony Brook. Prior to joining HEC Paris, she held various research, teaching, and consulting positions in France, Romania, and the U.S.

Thomas Obloj

Thomas Obloj is an assistant professor in strategy at HEC.

Lionel Paolella

Lionel Paolella is a Ph.D. candidate in Strategy at HEC Paris. He is currently visiting the Booth Scool of Business at the University of Chicago.

He graduated from Ecole Normale Supérieure de Cachan (ENS), after which he earned a MA in sociology at Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) and a MSc in Management (Université Paris X).

His research interests center around critics and market categorizations.

Nils Plambeck

Nils Plambeck, Associate Professor, received his doctor rer. pol. from the University of Hamburg where he has graduated from and where he has also lectured graduate level courses.

His main research interests focus on sense making processes, organizational change and corporate entrepreneurship.

He is currently doing research on the antecedents of sense-making processes and the influence of sense-making processes on firm’s entrepreneurial actions.

Bertrand Quélin

Bertrand Quélin is Professor of Strategic Management at HEC Paris. He has been Associate Dean for the HEC Ph.D. Program from September 1999 to February 2005 and member of the Executive Committee at HEC. He has also been a Visiting Research Scholar at the University of California (Haas School of business – Berkeley) (1996-1997 and summer 2005), and Visiting Professor at HEC Lausanne (Switzerland), the Bocconi University and Politecnico di Milano (Italy). He is currently Academic Director of the Master in Strategic Management at HEC. He earned his Ph.D. Degree in economics from the University of Paris-North. His teaching and research interests focus on strategic outsourcing, vertical integration, supplier-buyer relationships, inter-organizational relationships and strategic management of competence. He is the author of several papers published in international journals like European Management Journal, Industrial and Corporate Change, Industry and Innovation, Journal of Economic Surveys, Journal of High Technology Management Research, Journal of Management Studies, Long Range Planning, Research Policy, Technology Analysis and Strategic Management, Telecommunications Policy and many French journals. Professor Quélin authored or co-authored four books: Perspectives en management stratégique (EMS, Tome 10, 2004, with L. Mezghani), Strategor (Vuibert, 2005, 4th edition. Translated in Spanish, Portuguese and Polish), Les Frontières de la firme (Economica, 2002), Le management stratégique des compétences (Ellipses, 2000, with J.-L. Arrègle) and numerous chapters in collective books. He has tough in different Executive MBA such as NHH-Bergen (Norway), Universidade Federale del Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS)-Porto Allegre (Brazil), CFVG-Hanoi (Vietnam) and Trium E-MBA (NYU/LSE/HEC). Prior to his academic activities, Bertrand Quélin was an expert with the European Economic Commission (D.G. V) at Brussels (1984-1986). Then, he was Head of the International economic studies Group at France Telecom (1986-1988). Since, he has been consultant and management educator with many companies.

Thomas Roulet

Thomas Roulet is a PhD candidate in management at HEC Paris. He is currently visiting Columbia University. His research focuses on the impact of organizational legitimacy on workers’ motivation and job satisfaction. He is also interested in corporate social responsibility and in the philosophical foundations of management science.

Before joining academia, he had experience in investment banking and in international and lobbying organizations in London, Washington and Paris. He holds a MPhil in Economics from Sciences Po and a Master in Management from Audencia Nantes.

Carlos Ramirez

Carlos Ramirez received his PhD in sociology in 2005 from the Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales. He is also the holder of an agrégation de sciences sociales. Before joining HEC Paris he was a research officer at the Department of Accounting and Finance of the London School of Economics and Political Science. His research in the sociology and history of professional groups has been published in journals such as Actes de la Recherche en Sciences Sociales and Accounting Organizations and Society. His current work is essentially concerned with the construction of a transnational order with special reference to the role large multinational professional services firms play in that construction. He has so far focussed on the Big 4 audit firms (Deloitte, KPMG, Price Watehouse Coopers, Ernst & Young). The Big 4 have a particularly active part in the definition and application of international standards in accounting and auditing, which are instruments indispensable to the functioning of financial markets. Besides, these multinational multidisciplinary entities also deploy lobbying strategies aimed at influencing, not only the regulation of accountancy and auditing, but, beyond, that of markets for professional services and, hence, their jurisdiction over these markets.

Samuel Touboul

Samuel TOUBOUL is a Ph.D. candidate in Strategy & Business Policy at HEC Paris. He holds a MBA from ESSEC Business School and a Master of International Affairs from Sciences Po. Paris. His research interests lie around social performance, sustainability disclosure, and their links with corporate performance. He specifically focuses on the impact of social performance in the access to ressources, and firms’ incentives to green-wash. Over the past years, Samuel also earned professional experience in sustainable strategies and SMEs development with strategy consulting groups, the United Nations and the World Bank. He has worked and lived in France, Sweden, India, Thailand and the United States.

Jean-Philippe Vergne

Jean-Philippe Vergne is an assistant professor at the Richard Ivey School of Business. He received his Ph.D. at HEC Paris in 2010. He is interested in the evolution of the legitimacy structure of the global arms industry since 9/11. He also studies the history of piracy in relation with the development of capitalism since the early 17^th century .

He graduated from HEC Paris and La Sorbonne University.