Rodolphe DURAND

Professor

Strategy and Business Policy

durand@hec.fr http://rodolphedurand.com/

Biography

Rodolphe Durand is the holder of the Joly Family Purposeful Leadership Chair and the Founder and Academic Director of the Society and Organizations Institute which he launched in 2009. Over the recent years, he was Visiting Professor at New York University (Stern Business School), London Business School, and Cambridge University (Judge Business School), and in 2012 Visiting Scholar at Harvard Business School. Previously, he chaired the Strategy & Business Policy department (2009-2013), served as the MSc in Strategic Management’s Academic Director (2012-2015). Rodolphe’s primary research interests concern the normative and cognitive dimensions of firms' performance, and especially the consequences for firms of identifying and coping with the current major environmental and social challenges. Why do organizations supersede rivals? Can new norms, interests, and behaviors (such as Corporate Social Responsibility and inclusive business) bring an advantage to firms and diffuse in markets? Should firms and organizations really innovate or rather conform to established logics to be successful?

For his work on these questions that integrate research streams from sociology, philosophy, and management, Rodolphe received the American Sociological Association’s R. Scott Award in 2005, the European Academy of Management/Imagination Lab Award for Innovative Scholarship in 2010, and was inducted Fellow of the Strategic Management Society in 2014.

Beyond his publications in journals including American Journal of Sociology, Academy of Management Review, and Strategic Management Journal, Rodolphe is also a prolific author of books where he puts in perspective the decline of ideologies, the evolution of capitalism, and the new foundations of management, notably: Organizational Evolution and Strategic Management (Sage, 2006), The Pirate Organization: Lessons from the Fringed of Capitalism (co-authored with JP Vergne, Harvard Press, 2013), and Organizations, Strategy, and Society: The Orgology of Disorganized Worlds (Routledge, 2014). As an advisor, senior advisor, and non-executive board member, he works with multiple organizations on assessing competitive advantage, and developing and implementing new strategies.

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Scientific articles

Strategy can no Longer Ignore Planetary Boundaries: A Call for Tackling Strategy's Ecological Fallacy

Journal of Management Studies, Forthcoming, (in coll. with P. (. Bansal, M. Kreutzer, S. Kunisch, A. M. McGahan)

Clearing Up Confusion: The Effect of Outlier Similarity on IPO Underpricing

Organization Studies, Forthcoming, (in coll. with P. Gouvard)

Difference in Deference: When Competitors Do Not Give in Despite Having Lost

Organization Science, Forthcoming, (in coll. with H. Piezunka, P. Reineke)

Who Controls the Controller? People Reaction to Social Control Agent's Decisions about Organizational Misconduct

Journal of Management Studies, May 2024, vol. 61, n° 3, pp 785-819, (in coll. with G. Cattani, M. Clemente, K. M. Mai)

Corporate purpose research: Streams and promises (editorial)

Journal of Management Scientific Reports, November 2024, vol. 2, n° 3-4, pp 218-234, (in coll. with C.-W. Huynh)

Impact investing in disadvantaged urban areas

Strategic Management Journal, 19 2024, vol. 45, n° 2, pp 238-271, (in coll. with R. Boulongne, C. Flammer)

To Be or Not To Be (Typical): Evaluation-Mode Heterogeneity and its Consequences for Organizations

Academy of Management Review, October 2023, vol. 48, n° 4, pp 659-680, (in coll. with P. Gouvard)

From the Boardroom: Making Purpose Research Relevant for Practice

Strategy Science, June 2023, vol. 8, n° 2, pp 149-158,

A Rivalry-Based Theory of Gender Diversity

Strategic Management Journal, May 2023, vol. 44, n° 5, pp 1254-1291, (in coll. with J. K. MAWDSLEY, L. PAOLELLA)

Valuing Spanners: Why Category Nesting and Expertise Matter

Academy of Management Journal, 19 2023, vol. 66, n° 1, pp 335-365, (in coll. with A. Cudennec)

Books

A Broader Vision of Business

Flammarion 2022 (in coll. with A. FRÉROT )

En quête de sens : un dialogue entre dirigeants et futurs dirigeants

Dunod 2022 (in coll. with C. LAVRARD-MEYER )

L'entreprise de demain

Flammarion 2021 (in coll. with A. FRÉROT )

Strategor - 8ème édition, Toute la stratégie de la start-up à la multinationale

Dunod 2019 (in coll. with B. GARRETTE, P. DUSSAUGE, L. LEHMANN ORTEGA, B. POINTEAU, O. SIBONY, F. LEROY )

Strategor - 7ème édition

Dunod 2016 (in coll. with L. LEHMANN ORTEGA, F. LEROY, P. DUSSAUGE, B. GARRETTE, ET AL. )

Organizations, Strategy and Society: The Orgology of Disorganized Worlds

Routledge, New York 2015

La désorganisation du monde

Le Bord de l'Eau 2013

Strategor - 6ème édition

Dunod 2013 (in coll. with P. DUSSAUGE, F. LEROY, L. LEHMANN ORTEGA, B. GARRETTE )

The Pirate Organization: Lessons from the Fringes of Capitalism

Harvard Business Press Books 2013 (in coll. with J. VERGNE )

L'organisation pirate

Le Bord de l'Eau 2010 (in coll. with J.-P. VERGNE )

Chapters in edited books

An Audience-Based Theory of Firm Purposefulness

Advances In Cultural Entrepreneurship (Research In The Sociology Of Organizations, Vol. 80, Lockwood C. and Soublière J-F., Emerald Group Publishing Limited, 193-216

Legitimacy Judgments and Prosociality: Organizational Purpose Explained

Handbook On The Business Of Sustainability: The Organization, Implementation, And Practice Of Sustainable Growth, Gerry George, Martine R. Haas, Havovi Joshi, Anita McGahan and Paul Tracey, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2 , 43-62

Competitive Advantage = Strategy, Reboot

Strategic Management: State Of The Field And Its Future, Irene Duhaime, Michael Hitt, Marjorie Lyles, Oxford University Press, 4

When Do Market Intermediaries Sanction Categorial Deviation? The Role of Expertise, Identity and Competition

Microfoundations Of Institutions (Research In The Sociology Of Organizations, Vol. 65A), Haack P., Sieweke J. and Wessel L., Emerald Group Publishing Limited, 67-83

Advancing Category Research: Theoretical Mapping and Under-Researched Areas

The Sage Handbook Of Organizational Institutionalism, 2Nd Ed., R. Greenwood, C. Oliver, T. Lawrence, & R. E. Meyer, SAGE Publications, 4

Organizational wrongdoing and media bias

Organizational Wrongdoing ,Key Perspectives And New Directions, D. Palmer, K. Smith-Crowe K., R. Greenwood (Eds), Cambridge University Press, 435-473

Institutional Logics as Strategic Resources

Research In The Sociology Of Organizations, M. Lounsbry, E. Boxenbaum, Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Institutional Logics in Action , 165-201

Strong in the morning, dead in the evening: a genealogical and contextual perspective on organizational selection

The Globalization Of Strategy Research (Advances In Strategic Management, Volume 27), J. Baum (ed.), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, 279-312

(Un)Great Expectations- Effects of underestimations and self-perception on performance

Handbook Of Research On Foresight And Strategy, L. Costanzo (ed.), Edward Elgar Publishing

Practical wisdom and emotional capability as antecedents of organizational accountability in revolutionary change processes

Research On Emotion In Organizations, N. Ashkanasy, W. Zerbe, C. Hartel (Eds), Emerald Group Publishing Limited

Proceedings

Stick or Yardstick? Organizational Misconduct, Social Control Agents, and People Voice

The Sound of Finance: The Impact of Categorization and Linguistic Congruence on IPO Underpricing

78th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, August 10-14, 2018 , 2018 , Chicago , 2018 , 1 (P. GOUVARD)

Category Reloaded: The Case of Socially Responsible Investment

77th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, August 4-8, 2017 , 2017 , Atlanta , 2017 , 1 (D-L. ARJALIES)

Toward a Theory of Organizations’ Purpose: Linguistic Congruence, Antecedents and Consequences

Working papers

A Rivalry-Based Theory of Gender Diversity

Cahier de Recherche du Groupe HEC , 2022

Evaluating Ambiguous Offerings

Cahier de Recherche du Groupe HEC , 2021

Legitimacy judgments and prosociality: Organizational purpose explained

Cahier de Recherche du Groupe HEC , 2021

Manifesto Shareholder Duacy and Efficient Governance for the XXIst Century Responsible Firm

SSRN Electronic Journal , 2021

Impact Investing and the Fostering of Entrepreneurship in Disadvantaged Urban Areas: Evidence from Microdata in French Banlieues

Cahier de Recherche du Groupe HEC , 2020

The role of labels in green finance: construction and regulation of a label market in France

Cahier de Recherche du Groupe HEC , 2020

Do Investors Actually Value Sustainability Indices? Replication, Development, and New Evidence on CSR Visibility

Cahier de Recherche du Groupe HEC , 2019

Ups and Downs: The Role of Legitimacy Judgment Cues in Practice Implementation

Cahier de Recherche du Groupe HEC , 2019

Categorizing Institutional Logics, Institutionalizing Categories: A Review of Two Literatures

Cahier de Recherche du Groupe HEC , 2018

Family Firms in the Ownership Network: Clustering, Bridging, and Embeddedness

Cahier de Recherche du Groupe HEC , 2018

Case Studies

Purposeful Leadership at Best Buy

2021

Is the LYDEC experience replicable?

2012

Purposeful Leadership in a turnaround

Scientific articles

Corporate purpose research: Streams and promises (editorial)

Journal of Management Scientific Reports, November 2024, vol. 2, n° 3-4, pp 218-234, (in coll. with C.-W. Huynh)

Impact investing in disadvantaged urban areas

Strategic Management Journal, 19 2024, vol. 45, n° 2, pp 238-271, (in coll. with R. Boulongne, C. Flammer)

Who Controls the Controller? People Reaction to Social Control Agent's Decisions about Organizational Misconduct

Journal of Management Studies, May 2024, vol. 61, n° 3, pp 785-819, (in coll. with G. Cattani, M. Clemente, K. M. Mai)

A Rivalry-Based Theory of Gender Diversity

Strategic Management Journal, May 2023, vol. 44, n° 5, pp 1254-1291, (in coll. with J. K. MAWDSLEY, L. PAOLELLA)

Books

A Broader Vision of Business

Flammarion 2022 (in coll. with A. FRÉROT )

En quête de sens : un dialogue entre dirigeants et futurs dirigeants

Dunod 2022 (in coll. with C. LAVRARD-MEYER )

L'entreprise de demain

Flammarion 2021 (in coll. with A. FRÉROT )

Strategor - 8ème édition, Toute la stratégie de la start-up à la multinationale

Dunod 2019 (in coll. with B. GARRETTE, P. DUSSAUGE, L. LEHMANN ORTEGA, B. POINTEAU, O. SIBONY, F. LEROY )

Chapters in edited books

An Audience-Based Theory of Firm Purposefulness

Advances In Cultural Entrepreneurship (Research In The Sociology Of Organizations, Vol. 80, Lockwood C. and Soublière J-F., Emerald Group Publishing Limited, 193-216

Legitimacy Judgments and Prosociality: Organizational Purpose Explained

Competitive Advantage = Strategy, Reboot

Strategic Management: State Of The Field And Its Future, Irene Duhaime, Michael Hitt, Marjorie Lyles, Oxford University Press, 4

When Do Market Intermediaries Sanction Categorial Deviation? The Role of Expertise, Identity and Competition

Microfoundations Of Institutions (Research In The Sociology Of Organizations, Vol. 65A), Haack P., Sieweke J. and Wessel L., Emerald Group Publishing Limited, 67-83

Proceedings

Stick or Yardstick? Organizational Misconduct, Social Control Agents, and People Voice

The Sound of Finance: The Impact of Categorization and Linguistic Congruence on IPO Underpricing

78th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, August 10-14, 2018 , 2018 , Chicago , 2018 , 1 (P. GOUVARD)

Category Reloaded: The Case of Socially Responsible Investment

77th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, August 4-8, 2017 , 2017 , Atlanta , 2017 , 1 (D-L. ARJALIES)

Toward a Theory of Organizations’ Purpose: Linguistic Congruence, Antecedents and Consequences

Working papers

A Rivalry-Based Theory of Gender Diversity

Cahier de Recherche du Groupe HEC , 2022

Evaluating Ambiguous Offerings

Cahier de Recherche du Groupe HEC , 2021

Legitimacy judgments and prosociality: Organizational purpose explained

Cahier de Recherche du Groupe HEC , 2021

Manifesto Shareholder Duacy and Efficient Governance for the XXIst Century Responsible Firm

SSRN Electronic Journal , 2021

Case Studies

Purposeful Leadership at Best Buy

2021

Is the LYDEC experience replicable?

2012

Purposeful Leadership in a turnaround

Education

2019
Doctor Honoris Causa, Catholic University of Louvain - Belgium
2001
Habilitation a diriger des recherches (Qualified Research Supervisor), Strategy and Business Policy, Université Jean Moulin Lyon 3 - France
1997
Doctorat HEC (Ph.D. in Management), HEC Paris - France
1995
Master of Philosophy with top honors, Université Paris Sorbonne Lettres et Civilisations - France
1994
DEA de Strategie et Management, Université Paris Ouest la Défense - France
1993
Diplome Grande Ecole HEC Paris (Master Degree in Management), HEC Paris - France

Academic appointments

Academic Responsibilities at HEC

2018- Joly Family Chaired Professor in Purposeful Leadership HEC Paris
2016-2018 HEC Foundation Senior Chaired Professor HEC Paris
2011-2015 Academic Director of the Msc in Strategic Management HEC Paris
2010-2015 Chaired Professor « Business and Sustainability », funded by Engie HEC Paris
2009- Founder and Director of the Society and Organizations Institute HEC Paris
2009- Professor HEC Paris
2004- Member of GREGHEC, the joint research laboratory CNRS-HEC Paris HEC Paris

External Academic Responsibilities

2014-2014 Visiting professor London Business School
2012-2012 Visiting scholar Harvard Business School
2011-2011 Montemozolo Visiting Professor, Fellow of Sidney-Sussex College University of Cambridge, Judge Business School
2011-2011 Visiting professor New York University, Stern School of Business
2007-2008 Visiting professor City University - Cass Business School, Londres
1999-2004 Professor, Strategy Department EM Lyon
1998-1999 Visiting Assistant Professor Emory University - Goizueta School of Business
1997-1998 Visiting Assistant Professor Tulane University

Scientific Activities

Membership in Academic or Professional Organisation

Permanent member of the "Commission Contrats de societe' in "Club des juristes"
Member of Academy of Management (AOM), Strategic Management Society (SMS), American Sociology Association (ASA), European Group for Organization Studies (EGOS), European Academy of Management (EURAM), Association Internationale de Management Strategique (AIMS)

Editorial activities

2017- Associate Editor for Strategic Management Journal

January 2016-May 2020 Associate editor for Organization and Environment

2011- Les mouvements sociaux, organisations et strategies - Revue Francaise de Gestion, octobre 2011, Editors: D. Golsorkhi, H. Bergeron, P. Castel, R. Durand, B. Leca

2006-2012 Associate Editor, European Management Review

2006- Associate Editor, Scandinavian Management Journal

Editorial Board member for Academy of Management Review (2011- 2015), Journal of Management Studies (2007- )

Member, Scientific Committee, Business Digest

Guest editor for Special Issue: SMJ 2017: Reviews of Strategic Management Research (with R. Grant and T. Madsen) Research in Sociology in Organizations (RSO volume) 2017: From categories to categorization (with N. Granqvist and A. Tyllstrom)

Guest editor for Special Issue: AMR 2015: Communication, Cognition, and Institutions (with J. Cornelissen, P. Fiss, J. Lammers, and E. Vaara)

Past Editorial Board memberships: Strategic Management Journal (2007- 2016), Organization Studies (2009-2012), Strategic Organization (2008-2013), and Long Range Planning (2008-2011)

Reviewer for Academy of Management Journal, Administrative Science Quarterly, American Journal of Sociology, American Sociological Review, Organization Science among others

Conference organisation

2024-2024 Organizer of the 9th S&O Research Day by the Society & Organizations (S&O) Institute

2023-2023 Organizer of the 1st edition of the Purpose Day, on corporate purpose: “ Bringing Change with Purpose”

2022-2022 1st HEC Climate Days

2019-2019 Organizer of the 2019 Society and Organizations Institute ARCS Workshop on “Accelerating Researcher-Practitioner Collaborations in Sustainability Research”, October 11-12, Collège des Bernardins, Paris, France

2019- Organizer of the Society and Organizations Institute Annual Conference, "AI, Robotics and Work" conference

2019- Co-organizer of the 5th edition of the Society and Organizations Institute Research Day

2019- Organizing Committee of the XIth Medici Summer School in Management Studies, "Commercialization of Art and Science", HEC Paris

2018-2018 Co-Chair of the 2018 Strategic Management Society Conference

2018- Co-organizer of the 4th edition of the Society and Organizations Institute Research Day

2018- Organizing Committee of the Xth Medici Summer School in Management Studies “the Role of Organizations as Vehicles for Social Change”, Bologna, Italy

2017-2017 Annual conference "Alliances for cities in transition", co-organised by the Institute Society and Organizations Institute of HEC Paris and Association of Alumni

2017-2017 Co-organizer of the 3rd edition of the Society and Organizations Institute Research Day

2017- Organizing Committee of the IXth Medici Summer School in Management Studies, “The organization of Innovation & Entrepreneurship”, Cambridge MIT Sloan School of Management

2016-2016 Organizer of the conference Finance4Good : How can Finance help address the main challenges of our global society?

2016-2016 Co-organizer of the 2nd edition of the Society and Organizations Institute Research Day

2016-2016 Organizing Committee of the VIIIth Medici Summer School in Management Studies, "Organizational Bases of Inequality", Paris

2015-2015 Organizing Committee of the VIIth Medici Summer School in Management Studies "Social Valuation in Organizational, Interpersonal, and Market Contexts", Bologne

2015-2015 Organizer of the Society and Organizations Institute and Golden Conference “Towards a Sustainable Economy”

2015-2015 Co-organizer of the 1st edition of the Society and Organizations Institute Research Day

2014-2014 Organizer of the VIth Medici Summer School, "Deviance and Deviants in Organizational Research", Florence

2013-2013 Organizer of the Vth Medici Summer School in Management Studies, "Internationalization Strategies: old questions, new contexts", Florence

2013- Organizer of the Social Business Conference : 10th anniversary

2011-2011 Co-organizer of the Conference "Coordination within and among Organizations"

2010- Co-organizer of the Conference "Society and Organizations": From routines to movements - and back", HEC Paris, Rouen Business School, Centre de Sociologie des Organisation, Sciences Po

2008-2008 Program Track Director for the Track "Competitive Strategy" at the 2008 SMS Annual International Conference in Cologne

2007-2007 Co-organizer and Academic Committee Chair of EURAM 2007 (European Academy of Management) held in Paris

2007-2007 Co-organizer of Les Echos-INPI-HEC conference on industrial property

2007-2008 Chair of the EURAM Scientific Committee

2007-2007 President of the AIMS Scientific Committee

2004-2004 Organizer of tracks for the EGOS conference

2003-2003 Organizer of tracks for the EGOS conference - "Pushing old legitimacies clown the stairs", Copenhagen

2001-2001 Organizer of tracks for the EGOS conference - "Space as an Organizational Resource", Lyon

Co-organizer of "Entretiens de Paris, les Echos, INPI HEC"

Awards & honors

2022 Winner with Mark Desjardine (Pennsylvania State University) of the ONE-SIM Outreach Award for their outreach activities based on the paper Disentangling the effects of hedge fund activism on firm financial and social performance (Strategic Management Journal, 2020)
2022 2021 HEC Foundation Award for Best Researcher
2022 Competition winner: Purposeful Leadership at Best Buy,, Outstanding New Case Writer Competition category at The Case Centre Awards and Competitions 2022
2021 Award of the Best Published Article goes to Mark DesJardine Rodolphe Durand, respectively Assistant Professor of Strategy and Sustainability at the Smeal College of Business at Pennsylvania State University and Professor of Strategy and Corporate Policy at HEC Paris with Disentangling the effects of hedge fund activism on firm financial and social performance Published in the Strategic Management Journal, 2020; 41 : 10541082
2019 Doctor honoris causa by the Universite Catholique de Louvain
2019 ARCS Annual Conference : Best Paper Award
2017 HEC Foundation Award of the Best researcher
2016 2016 Best Paper Award, ARCS (Alliance for Research in Corporate Sustainability) for the paper "A Model of Organizational Symbolism: Understanding the Different Shades of Green"
2016 2016 Emerald Citation of Excellence for "Category stretching: Reorienting research on categories in strategy, entrepreneurship, and organization theory", Journal of Management Studies, 50(6), 1100-1123, Durand, R., and Paolella, L. (2013)
2014 Fellow of the Strategic Management Society
2012 Researcher of the Year Award, Fondation HEC
2010 European Academy of Management, Imagination Lab award for Innovative Scholarship
2010 Emerald Management Reviews Citation of Excellence 2010 pour l'article Causation, counterfactuals, and competitive advantage, Strategic Management Journal, 30: 1264-1284
2009 HEC Foundation award for best paper published by HEC faculty member - "Do science and money go together ? The case of French Biotech industry", Strategic Management Journal, 2008, vol. 29, n 12
2006 Fondation HEC, award for best paper published in 2006 by HEC faculty member
2005 R. Scott Award 2005 for best paper (ASA, OOW division, 2005)
1999 Winner of "Best Young French Researcher Award", AIMS
1998 Finalist of "Best Dissertation Award", HEC
1993 Best Research Paper, Ernst and Young Award
1992 HEC Dean Award