Curriculum Vitæ

RESEARCH

Published/in press

The Publicization of Organizational Misconduct: A Social Structural Approach (with A. Piazza). 2023. Academy of Management Journal, Forthcoming [article, preprint].

Scandal as Moral Interaction: Towards a New Perspective on the Publicization of Organizational Misconduct. 2023. Research in the Sociology of Organizations, Forthcoming. [article, preprint]

A new take on the categorical imperative: Gatekeeping, boundary maintenance, and evaluation penalties in science (with. R. Fini, M. Perkmann & L.Toschi). 2022. Organization Science. 34(3): 1090– 1110 [open access article, preprint].

The Institutional Footprint of Organizations. 2019. In Materiality in Institutions: Spaces, Embodiment and Technology in Management and Organization. A. Adrot, F.X. de Vaujany, E. Boxenbaum, B. Leca editors. Palgrave. [book chapter, preprint]

Social Valuation Across Multiple Audiences: The Interplay of Ability and Identity Judgments (with R. Fini & M. Perkmann). 2018. Academy of Management Journal, 61(6): 2230–2264. [article, preprint]

Institutional Specialization and Survival: Theory and Evidence from the French Film Industry. 2018. Strategy Science, 3(2): 408–425. [article]

When the Dust Settles: The Consequences of Scandals for Organizational Competition (with A. Piazza). 2018. Academy of Management Journal, 161(1):165–190. [article, AMJ Best paper finalist]

The Price of Admission: Organizational Deference as Strategic Behavior (with R. Durand, & P. H. Thornton). 2017. American Journal of Sociology, 123(1): 232–275. [article]

Too Much of a Good Thing? The Dual Effect of Public Sponsorship on Firm Performance (with I. Kivleniece). 2017. Academy of Management Journal, 60(1):1-23. [article]

Institutional Logics as Strategic Resources (with R. Durand, P. H. Thornton, & B. Szostak). 2013. Research in the Sociology of Organizations, 39:165-201. [article]

Jules or Jim: Alternative Conformity to Minority Logics (with R. Durand). 2012. Academy of Management Journal, 55(6): 1295-1315. [article]

Working papers 

Corporate Scandals Spillovers: An Exploratory Study of the Dieselgate using Twitter Data (with J. Qiu, & S.Galeshchuk). [SSRN]

The Effect of Stigma on the Political Behavior of Multinationals (with R. Bandeira de Mello, & A. Mauerberg Junior). 2018 SMS Conference Best Paper Award, Finalist.

The Strategic Timing of Negative News (with J. Glauber). 

Value-Based Stakeholder Strategy (with I. Kivleniece, & A. McGahan).

Industry Publications / Policy papers 

L'industrie cinématographique à l'ère Netflix: Stratégies et Régulations. 2019. GovReg. Dauphine Chaire Gouvernance et Régulation. [paper] 

Conference presentations

• 2022. AoM Annual Meeting (Seattle, WA). New perspective on stakeholder governance.

• 2021. Strategy Science conference (HBS, virtual). Stakeholder value creation and appropriatrion (with I. Kivleniece).

• 2021. Creative Industry Conference (virtual). Distinction dynamics among film critics.

• 2020. SMS Conference (virtual). Roundtable on scandal, stigma, and legitimacy. 

• 2020. Society and Organizations Meeting (Paris). The Dieselgate Scandal.

• 2020. AoM Annual Meeting (virtual, Symposium on The Social Evaluation of Novelty). Distinction Dynamics Among Film Critics.

• 2020. EGOS Colloquium (virtual). Corporate Scandal, Social Media and Morality.

• 2020. PSL-Paris Dauphine Governance and Regulation Seminar (Paris). The maintenance of social boundaries in academia.

• 2019. EGOS Colloquium (Edinburgh, UK). The gatekeeper effect in peer accreditation.

• 2019. X-Telecom Media COnference (Paris). The movie industyy in the Netflix era: Strategic considerations.

• 2018. Creative Industry Conference (Paris, FR). Distinction dynamics among film critics.

• 2018. SMS Conference (Paris, FR). Social media and firm value.

• 2018. EGOS Colloquium (Tallinn, EST). The scandalization of organizational misconduct.

• 2017. EGOS Colloquium (Copenhagen, DK). Social valuation across multiple audiences.

• 2016 AoM Annual Meeting (Anaheim, CA). The social valuation of scientists.

• 2016. EGOS Colloquium (Naples, IT). The Strategic Consequences of Scandals, EGOS.

• 2015. Mallen Film Conference (NYC, NY). Sponsorship and performance in the film industry.

• 2015. EGOS Sub-Theme on Consequences of Institutional Logics for Rationality and Reasoning.

• 2015. Workshop on Social Networks (Amsterdam, NL). Deference as Admission Fee in Foreign Networks.

• 2014. SMS Special Conference (Tel Aviv, IL). Starting Up of Slowing Down: The Dual Effect of Public Sponsorship on Firm Performance.

• 2014. Strategy Entrepreneurship Innovation SEI Workshop (Sophia Antipolis, FR). The Dual Effect of Public Sponsorship on Performance.

• 2014. AoM Annual Meeting (Philadelphia, PA). The Dual Effect of Public Sponsorship on Firm Performance (BPS), The Price of Admission: Deference in Overlapping Institutional Environments (OMT), Logic Alignment and Sustainable Advantage (OMT Junior Faculty Consortium).

• 2013. HBS Inaugural Paul Lawrence Conference (Cambridge, MA). Status Spillovers Across Multiple Institutional Logics.

• 2013. American Sociological Association Meeting (New York City, NY). Setting the Stage for Cooperation: Deference in Conflicting Institutional Environments.

• 2013. CRIOS Conference (Milan, IT). The Price of Admission: Deference in Overlapping Institutional Environments.

• 2012. SMS Conference (Prague, TR). The Dark Side of Public Money: Exploring the Effects of Public Sponsorship on Firm Performance.

• 2012. EGOS Colloquium (Helsinki, FI). Status Spillovers Across Multiple Institutional Logics.

• 2012 ABC Conference (Banff, AL). Presumption of Conflict: Deference as Productive Diplomacy.

• 2012. AoM Annual Meeting (Boston, MA). Institutional Capital Revisited: Firms Position in the Logics Space and Survival.

• 2011. SMS Conference (Miami, FL). Institutional Entry Barriers and the Liability of Logic Foreignness in the French Film Industry.

• 2011. AoM Annual Meeting (San Antonio, TX). Tie Me Up, Tie Me Down: Power Dependence and Conformity in Dual Audience Candidate Interfaces.

• 2011. EGOS Colloquium (Goteborg, SE). Liability of Logic Foreignness and Institutional Deference in the French Film Production Industry.

• 2010. SMS Conference (Rome, IT). Competing Investors’ Logic and Innovation Performance.

• 2010. AoM Annual Meeting (Montreal, CA, Symposium on Creativity & Networks). Creativity Impact of Competition in Dual Candidate-Audience Fields.

Panel / Plenary discussions

• 2019. EGOS Colloquium (Edinburgh, UK). Organization Theory: The Map and The Territory, sub-plenary on "Organization Theory: Where has it been and was it worth it?" (text here).

Research interests: Strategy; Organization Theory; Social Evaluation; Corporate Scandals; Film Industry,

EDUCATION

HEC Paris, Jouy-en-Josas, France. Ph.D. in Strategic Management, 2007-2011.

    "Logic Duality, Conformity, and Survival in the French Film Industry, 1987-2008."

Grigor McClelland Best Dissertation (2012 EGOS, Honorable Mention), AoM Best International Dissertation (2012 Meeting, Finalist), HEC Foundation Best Dissertation (2012, Winner), Industry Studies Association Best Dissertation (Finalist).

SORBONNE UNIVERSITY, Paris, France. MPhil, Organization Science, 2005.

ESCP, Paris, France. MSc, Management, 1995.

TEACHING & ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES

HEC PARIS, Jouy-en-Josas (FR). (Full) Professor (since 2025)

Department Coordinator, Management and HR Department.

HEC PARIS, Jouy-en-Josas (FR). (Tenured) Associate Professor (2020-25)

    Management and HR Department.

PSL-PARIS DAUPHINE UNIVERSITY, Paris (FR). Professor (2016–20).

    Management & Organisation group, DRM research center, CNRS.

    Teaching: Strategic Management (M1), Strategy Theory (M2, Master in Business Consulting), Bringing Society Back in Strategy (M2, Master in Strategy and Public Policy), Business and Corporate Strategy (E.MBA), The Movie Industry (M2, Master in Media and Telecom Management), Computational Social Science (PhD, under development), Quantitative Methods (E.DBA), Publishing (PhD)

BOCCONI UNIVERSITY, Milan (IT). Assistant Professor (2012–16).

    Department of Management and Technology.     Teaching: Management Skills (Undergraduate), Film Industry Economics and Management (Undergraduate & MsC) (MSc), Creativity in Organizations (MSc), Advanced Topics in OT (PhD).

SDA BOCCONI, Geneva (CH). Professor of Leadership (2014–17).

    Executive Management program for a world leader watch maker.

IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON, London (UK). Research Associate (post doc), then Visiting Fellow (2012-2021).

    Innovation and Entrepreneurship group, Business School.

HEC PARIS, Center for Research on Society and Organizations. Research Assistant (2009–11).

ESSEC Business School, Paris, France, 2007-2012. Adjunct professor of Media & Entertainment Economics

Teaching interests: Strategy (Master/PhD); Organization Theory (PhD); Computation Social Science (PhD); Film economics and strategy (Master).

TEACHING MATERIAL

Handbook

•  2009. Strategic Management Handbook: Strategor 5th Edition (with Bernard Garrette). Writing of chapter-end key learning points and quizzes. Writing and coordination of the professors’ manual.

Course syllabus

• 2018. The Movie Industry. 18-hour course, MTM MSc. at Paris Dauphine U.

• 2014. Film Industry Economics and Management. 48-hour course, ACME MSc. at Bocconi U.

Business cases

• 2015. Nollywood: The Emergence of a Cultural Industry (with G. Brunelli). Work in progress.

• 2014. Petit Palace: Understanding the Film Exhibition Business. Short case for class discussion (unpublished).

• 2014. Radioactive Pictures and Banca Cinema: Understanding Film Financing. Short case for class discussion (unpublished).

• 2008. Essilor’s Base Of the Pyramid Strategy in India (with Bernard Garrette). Winner of the 2009 HEC Foundation Award for Pedagogical Innovation.

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

Professional affiliations

    Academy of Management (AoM, OMT & STR divisions)

    Strategic Management Society (SMS)

    European Group for Organization Studies (EGOS)

    Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)

    Society and Organization research center (SNO, founding member).

Peer reviews and editorial Positions

Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Strategic Management Journal, Organization Science, Strategic Organization, Organization Studies, Journal of Management Studies, Social Theory, Socio-Economic Review, Human Resources, Journal of Business Research, Revue Française de Gestion, Innovation: Organization and Management (board), M@n@gement (board).

Professional services

• 2024. Co-organizer of the 3rd Stakeholder Governance Conference at HEC Paris (with R. Durand).

• 2023. Co-organizer of the annual Creative Industry Conference at INSEAD (with F. Godart).

• 2023. AOM PDW on stakeholder governance (with L. Pongeluppe and A. McGahan).

• 2023. EGOS colloquium PDW on social evaluations.

• 2023. Co-organizer and host of the Workshop on Digital Data for Research in Organization Studies at HEC Paris (With M. Etter and E. Colleoni).

• 2022. Convenor of the "Valuation and Social Evaluations: Giving Value to Evaluations" track at the EGOS Colloquium in Vienna (with T. Roulet and A. Aranda Gutierrez).

• 2022 AOM PDW and symposium on stakeholder governance (with A. McGahan).

• 2022. Co-organizer of the inaugural "New Perspectives on Stakeholder Governance" conference at INSEAD (with A. McGahan, S. Dorobantu and I. Kivleniece).

• Since 2017: Founder and coordinator of the Paris Organization Theory Research Group (@ParisOTREG)

• 2018. Co-organizer of the Paris Strategy Workshop.

• 2017. Institutional and Organizational Economics Association (IOEA) conference. Organizational Scandals (PhD workshop).

• 2017. OMT Doctoral Consortium, AOM (Atlanta, GA).

• 2016. OMT Doctoral Consortium, AOM (Anaheim, CA).

• 2015. Convenor of the Institutional Logics, Reasoning and Rationality track at the EGOS Colloquium in Athens (with P. H. Thornton, Duke U., and W. Ocasio, Northwestern U.).

• 2015. PDW on Institutional Theory at the EGOS Colloquium in Athens

BUSINESS AND NEWS MEDIA

Hollywood vs. Netflix : la bataille qui redessine l’industrie du cinéma, The Conversation, May 14, 2019.

Cinéma français: Comment survivre à l'ère Netflix, Les Echos, May 6, 2019.

Cinéma et subventions publiques: « Des résultats contrastés », Le Monde, May 9, 2018.

L’affaire Weinstein: Silence, dénonciation et moralisation, The Conversation, Nov. 2, 2017.

Uber est-elle une organisation philanthropique (malgré elle) ?, The Conversation, June 29, 2017.

Les mystères de l’uberisation, The Conversation, March 7, 2017

The bright side of Dieselgate and other corporate scandals, The Conversation, Dec. 8, 2016.

The reason for the AT&T-TimeWarner merger? Mere panic, LinkedIn, Oct. 26, 2016.

L'avenir d'Uber, France Culture Radio (morning show), June 22, 2017.

AWARDS, HONORS, AND GRANTS

2023. HEC Paris in Qatar Grant for a research project on the social control of organizations.

2020. "The Gatekeeper Effect..." nominated for 2020 SMS Best Paper Award.

2020. ECODEC-ANR11 grant (French National Research Agency, "Investissement d'avenir".

2019. "When the Dust Settles..." nominated for AMJ Best Paper Award (3 finalists).

2019. "Institutional Specialization and Survival..." nominated for the Industry Studies Association Ralph Gomory Best Industry Studies Paper Award (Finalist).

2018. Dauphine Digital Grant for developing an introductory course on Computation Social Science at the PhD level.

2018. Strategic Management Society (SMS) Best Paper Award, Finalist.

2017. PSL-Governance Analytics grant for an exploratory the study of organizational scandals using social media.

2013. Above and Beyond the Call for Duty (ABCD) Award, Academy of Management (OMT)

2012. AoM Best International Dissertation Award (Finalist).

2012. EGOS Grigor McClelland Doctoral Dissertation Award (Honorable Mention).

2012. HEC Foundation Best Dissertation Award (Finalist, pending).

2011. SMS Best Conference Paper Award and Best PhD Paper Award (Nominations).

2011. Visiting Scholarship grant awarded by the HEC Foundation.

2010. Research grant awarded by the HEC Foundation.

2007-2011. Doctoral Fellowship, HEC Paris.

INDUSTRY EXPERIENCE

WARNER BROS. PICTURES, Neuilly-sur-Seine (FR). Finance Director (2001–06).

    Theatrical, Television, and Local Production. Financial management of production and distribution activities (about €200m revenues).

    Development of the newly created local production business unit: structuring of production, coproduction and acquisition deals.

BLACK ORANGE (start-up), Clichy, France. Chief Financial Officer (2000–01).

    Entrepreneurial venture in the early online software distribution business.

    Legal and financial setup of the company through several rounds of financing (€1.5m). Cession to investors.

LEGRAND GROUP, Sophia Antipolis & Paris (FR). Financial Controller and Int'l Internal Auditor.1996-2000

    World leader in electrical and digital infrastructure (CAC40 company).

LANGUAGES

English, French.