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Objectal resistance: The political role of personal objects in workers’ resistance to spatial change
Taskin, L., Courpasson, D., & Donis, C. (2023). Objectal resistance: The political role of personal objects in workers’ resistance to spatial change. Human Relations, 76(5), 715-745. Flexwork, that is, the combination of shared offices and telework, is one...
Bloody suffering and durability: How chefs forge embodied identities in elite kitchens
Burrow, R., Scott, R., & Courpasson, D. (2024). Bloody suffering and durability: How chefs forge embodied identities in elite kitchens. Human Relations, 77(1), 111-139. In this article, we elaborate on the significance of suffering in processes of embodied...
TPE en faillite et placement en redressement. La performance de l’entrepreneurialité et ses effets sur la décision judiciaire
Virginie Blum (2024), « TPE en faillite et placement en redressement. La performance de l’entrepreneurialité et ses effets sur la décision judiciaire », Sociologies Pratiques, n°49, p.77-88 Si créer une entreprise est une chose, être confronté·e à sa...
The reproduction of structural inequalities in online job search strategies and outcomes
2025 De Marco, S., Dumont, G., & Elsper, E. The reproduction of structural inequalities in online job search strategies and outcomes. New Media & Society. Online first. Does digital stratification foster inequalities in access to work and employment? We...
Legal affordance and criminal organizations: The case of the narcopisos
Academy of Management Discovery. In press2025 Dumont, G., & Clua-Garcia How can criminal organizations grow and thrive in legal environments purposively designed to eradicate them? We explore this question ethnographically by drawing on three years of fieldwork...
Do Google Reviews matter for doctors? Unpacking online emotional accountability on a digital platform
Morinière, A., Georgescu, I., & Bez, S. M. (2025). Do Google Reviews matter for doctors? Unpacking online emotional accountability on a digital platform. Critical Perspectives on Accounting, 101, 102768. The emergence of publicly available online feedback has...
OCE Workshop | Farida SOUIAH | Tuesday, February 11th | 12h15-14h15
Dialogic organizing and polyphony under an authoritarian rule: The public debates of the Hirak movement in Algeria Farida Souiah, assistant professor in political science, OCE, emlyon business schoolTuesday, February 11th | 12h15-14h15 Room | B-114 This paper...
Offre de bourse doctorale
emlyon business school offre une bourse doctorale pour financer un projet de recherche en sciences sociales, orienté travail et organisation. En mobilisant de préférence des méthodes ethnographiques, le projet visera à comprendre les transformations du travail...
Experiencing vulnerability between frontstage and backstage identities: the vulnerable ‘I’s in creative writing workshops
Vignaud, M. (2024). Experiencing vulnerability between frontstage and backstage identities: the vulnerable ‘I’s in creative writing workshops. Culture and Organization, 1–17 In the context of creative writing groups, this paper explores how the affective experience of...
Dance Your Ph.D.
Hernandez Castro, G.Z., Kervyn, N., Mandalaki, E., Pérezts, M., Gomez Zuñiga, R.A., Rojas Pérez, S.G. (2024)“Dance Your Ph.D.” in VideoConfeDance: Developing a Blended-Method Dance Workshop for the Popularization of Science Through Choreography This teaching practice...
Breathe and let breathe: Breathing as a political model of organizing
Pérezts, M., Fotaki, M., Shymko, Y., & Islam, G. (2024) Take a deep breath. Although nothing is more natural or essential to human bodies than breathing, this simple yet vital act is the critical result of complex organizational, material, and political processes....
OCE Workshop | Hussein NASSER | Tuesday, December 10th | 10h-12h
We will have the great pleasure of welcoming Hussein Nasser. Hussein is an PhD student at emlyon. He’ll be giving a talk entitled: “Unpopularity Amidst Popularism: Dual Ethnographic Study of Migration-Themed Social Movement Organizations during Environmental...
OCE Open Talk | SPECIAL GUEST | Benoît Cret | Tuesday, November 19th | 10h-12h
We are pleased to announce our next OCE Research Seminar: Benoît Cret – Professor of Sociology – University of Grenoble) will join us on November 19th to discuss his work: “Les formes sociologiques de la concurrence” Abstract: La concurrence est-elle un objet...
OCE Workshop | Viktoria LAVRINIUK | Tuesday, October 15th | 12h15-14h15
OCE Workshop | Viktoria LAVRINIUK | Tuesday, October 15th | 12h15-14h15 We will have the great pleasure of welcoming Viktoria Lavruniuk. Viktoria is an PhD student at emlyon. She’ll be giving a talk entitled: “Beyond the Visible: Infrapolitics and Gendered Solidarity...
Clavijo C., Perray-Redslob, L. (2024). “We don’t want to be accused of being feminists”: A gender equality measure for leadership positions and the perpetuation of patriarchal arrangements. Critical Perspectives on Accounting. Volume 100, December 2024, 102754
Clavijo C., Perray-Redslob, L. (2024). This article seeks to understand the effects produced by a gender equality measure founded on a career-advancement approach to equality, by scrutinising a managerial control process introduced by the women’s network of a large...
Arnhold, V. (2024). «L’indépendance» en question. La construction d’une autonomie relative des organisations nucléaires face au politique en France (1986-2006). Entreprises et histoire, 114(1), 21-47.
Arnhold, Valérie (2024). Cet article étudie l’évolution de l’organisation du contrôle public de la filière nucléaire, de la création des premières structures supervisant l’exploitation des installations nucléaires jusqu’à l’adoption de la loi sur la transparence...
OCE Open Talk | SPECIAL GUEST | Eeva Luhtakallio | Tuesday, October 1st | 11h15-13h15
We are pleased to announce our next OCE Research Seminar: Eeva Luthtakallio – Professor of Sociology – University of Helsinki) will join us on October 1st to discuss her work: “Studying visual politicization: Visibility, authenticity and ‘fame democracy’” Abstract :...
OCE Workshop | Hussein NASSER | Thursday, June 27th | 13h-14h
OCE Workshop | Hussein NASSER | Thursday, June 27th | 13h-14h We will have the great pleasure of welcoming Hussein Nasser. Hussein is an PhD student at emlyon. He’ll be giving a talk entitled: « SPEAKING SHOUTING WITH THE EYES: Language Barriers and Emotional...
Dumont, Guillaume. Evaluating the Credibility of Entrepreneurs’ Impact Promises in Early-Stage Impact Investing. Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, 0(0)
Dumont, Guillaume. (2024). This article investigates ethnographically how early-stage impact investors evaluate the credibility of the impact promises made by social entrepreneurs. Uncovering how investors carry out this task beyond observable characteristics and...
OCE Workshop | Rachel LE MAROIS | Thursday, May 30th | 13h-14h
We will have the great pleasure of welcoming Rachel Le Marois. Rachel is an PhD student at emlyon. She’ll be giving a talk entitled: « Invisible Disabilities at Work: How Organizations Drive Stigmatized Identity Concealment/Disclosure? » In France, the recent...
OCE Open Talks | SPECIAL GUEST | Silvia Gherardi & Antonio Strati | Thursday, May 16th | 12h-15h
We are pleased to announce our next OCE Research Seminar with 2 special guests : Silvia Gherardi & Antonio Strati will join us on May 16th to discuss their work : Silvia Gherardi “How practice theory participates in critical posthumanist conversations” Antonio...
OCE Workshop | Sanjana GOREEBA | Thursday, March 7th | 13h-14h
We will have the great pleasure of welcoming Sanjana Goreeba. Sanjana is an PhD student at emlyon. She’ll be giving a talk entitled: « Estranged in their Homeland: Industrial Patriotism, Societal Control and the “Disinherited” Workers on the Made in France Shopfloor »...
Pénurie de logements pour les étudiants : et si la France s’inspirait du modèle coopératif ?
Buchter, Lisa (2024). https://theconversation.com/penurie-de-logements-pour-les-etudiants-et-si-la-france-sinspirait-du-modele-cooperatif-222662
Dance Your Ph.D.
Hernández Castro, G. Z., Kervyn, N., Mandalaki, E., Pérezts, M., Gómez Zúñiga, R. A. et Rojas Pérez, S. G. (2024). “Dance Your Ph.D.” in VideoConfeDance: Developing a Blended-Method Dance Workshop for the Popularization of Science Through Choreography. Revue...
Exposition Ethnographique
Exposition Ethnographique Exposition Ethnographique Cette exposition clôture le parcours d’apprentissage ethnographique organisé par l’Institut Ethnographique en collaboration avec le CFA. Durant ces 12 mois, les étudiants et étudiantes en...
The interfaces of legal and illegal activities
The interfaces of legal and illegal activities April 24 2024 / Ethnographic Institute, emlyon business schoolOrganizing committee Guillaume Dumont, Emlyon Business School, France.Loïc Pignolo, University of St. Gallen, Switzerland. Theme Legal and illegal economic...
Fulfilling the process promise in new venture creation research: The ethnography/accelerator approach
Collecting fine-grained, longitudinal data to study new venture creation (NVC) is critical but empirically challenging given the partly invisible, collective, and highly discursive nature of NVC. This article offers the ethnography/accelerator approach as one powerful...
Webinar | Mar PEREZTS | Tuesday, January 23rd | 16h-17h
R:ETRO webinars - Reputation: Ethics, Trust, and Relationships at Oxford, Saïd Business School Online seminar: Tuesday 23rd January 16:00 -17.00 GMT Mar Perezts, Professor of Philosophy and Organization, emlyon Business School will be the guest speaker for a seminar...
OCE Open Talks | Yuliya SHYMKO | Thursday, March 28th | 12h30-14h
We are pleased to announce our next OCE Research Seminar : Yuliya Shymko (Full Professor - Audencia Business School) will join us on March 28th to discuss her work : “Living and organizing below the abyssal line: ethnography in the favelas" Abstract : In countries...
OCE Workshop | Farida SOUIAH | Thursday, February 8th | 13h-14h
The next OCE Workshop is planned Thursday, February 8th (13h-14h). We will have the great pleasure of welcoming Farida Souiah. Farida is an Assistant Professor at emlyon. She’ll be giving a talk entitled: « Bad ethnographer, and worse mother” : Navigating Motherhood,...
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