Since 2004 : Associate Dean for Research EM LYON
2003-2004 : Visiting Scholar, The Fuqua School of Business, Duke University, USA
1999-2003 : Director of the Strategy and Management Department and Professor of Organizational Sociology
1997-1999 : Associate Professor of Organizational Sociology, HRM Department
1993-1997 : Senior Research Fellow Head of the Strategy and Human Resources Team
1988-1993 : Research Fellow, EM LYON
1987-1988 : Research Assistant Socio-Economy Inst. for Organizations and Institutions Lyon

Courses taught:
 in PhD Seminars:
- Doctoral program Strategy and Management (Lyon 3 Un.: Political and sociological approaches to management
- Doctoral program Analysis and Economic History of Institutions and Organizations (Lyon 2 Un): From bureaucracy to the entrepreneurial firm
Executive Education : Seminars for Lyonnaise de Banque, Société Générale, Banque Régionale de l'Ain, Aventis, EDF
in MSc in Management Program: Power and Politics
in MBA Program: Politics and Management

Selected Papers

Theories of Power and Domination

Courpasson, D. (2006) " Solt Constraint. Liberal Organizations and Domination." Paris: Liber & Copenhagen Business School Press. 242 pages

Courpasson, D., Clegg, S. & Nelson Ph. (2006) "."Power and Organizations. Sage Publication, 457 pages

Courpasson, D. (2000) "Managerial Strategies of Domination. Power in Soft Bureaucracies". Organization Studies, 21/1: 141-161.

Courpasson, D. (2000) L'action contrainte. Organisations libérales et domination. Paris : Presses Universitaires de France (to be published in English, Copenhagen Business School Press 2004- Soft Constraint. Liberal organizations and Domination

Courpasson, D. (1998) Le changement est un outil politique. Revue Française de Gestion
n° 120, sept-octobre, p6-16

Courpasson, D. (1997) " Threat, Power and Legitimacy. The new "organizational" elites and the social regulation in French companies", Paper presented at the 13th Egos Conference, Budapest, July.

Courpasson, D. (1996) " Les normalisations managériales entre l'individu et le modèle professionnel ". Revue d'Economie Industrielle, 75/1 : 239-256.

Courpasson, D. (1997) " Régulation et gouvernement des organisations. Pour une sociologie de l'action managériale ", Sociologie du Travail, 1 : 39-61.

Bureaucracy and Enterprise

Courpasson, D. and Reed M."Bureaucracy in the Age of Entreprise", Introduction to the Special Issue of Organization, 2004: 11/1: 5-12.

Courpasson, D. (1997) "The French Deposit Bank: Managerial Professions Between Rationalization and Trust", in Morgan, G. and D. Knights, Regulation and Deregulation in European Financial Services. London: MacMillan.

Courpasson, D. (1995) "Eléments pour une sociologie de la relation commerciale. Les paradoxes de la modernisation dans la banque ", Sociologie du travail,1 : 23.

Courpasson, D. (1995) La modernisation bancaire. Sociologie des rapports profession/marché. Paris : L'Harmattan, Logiques Sociales.

Political Regimes and the production of corporate elite

Courpasson, D. & Clegg S. (2006) Dissolving Iron Cage, Tocqueville Michels Bureaucracy and the Perpetuation of Elite Power. Organization, April, n°13, 319-343

Courpasson, D, Dany, F. & Riot, Ph. (2006) Elites managériales, glissements politiques et redéfinitions. Revue Cadres, Fevrier, n°418, 37-44

Clegg, S and Courpasson, D. (2004) "Political Hybrids, Tocquevillean views on Project Organizations, Journal of Management Studies 41/4: 525-547

Courpasson D. (2004 December) "Oligarchy and the professionals. Project management and the production of corporate elite", Making Projects critical workshop, Bristol Un., UK

Courpasson D. (2004) "Organizations as contested Oligarchies" Organization Science Winter Conference, Steamboat Springs, CO, February.

Courpasson, D. and F. Dany (2003) "Indifference or Obedience? Business Firms as Democratic Hybrids" Organization Studies 24/8: 1231-1260

Courpasson, D. (1998) "Autonomie politique et despotisme organisationnel", Synthèse du séminaire de Goutelas, avril.

Conferences

COURPASSON, David. 2005. Elite Resilience and the Construction of Polyarchies. International Workshop on Institutional Studies, Octobre, Pekin.

COURPASSON, David. 2006. From Bureaucracies to Polyarchies. The Production of Political Performance in Contemporary Organizations. American Political Science Association Congress, August, Philadelphie.

COURPASSON, David. 2006. Workshop Pour une vision politique du management (stratégique). Repenser le pouvoir. XVème Conférence AIMS, Juin, Annecy.

COURPASSON, David, DANY, Françoise & MELKONIAN, Tessa. 2006. A Pluralistic View of Managerial Innovation Diffusion: The Dynamic of Top manager's Consent. Academy Of Management Conference, August, Atlanta.

COURPASSON, David & REED, Michael. 2006. Genetic Code Violations of Segregating and Blending. 22nd EGOS Colloquium, 6-8 July, Bergen, Norway.

Research Interests

Theories of Power and Domination
Bureaucracy and Enterprise
Political Regimes and the production of Corporate Elite
Morality, Community and Solidarity in Business Contexts

French
English

Membership
EM LYON : Member of the Faculty Committee, of the Scientific Committee
Co-editor of Organization Studies since 2004
Senior Editor of Organization Science 1999-2004
Member of the Editorial Review Board of Organization Science
Member of the Editorial Board of Organization since 1996
Member of EGOS
Reviewer for Organization Studies, Organization, Revue Française de Gestion, Organization Science

Work

• Soft Constraint - Liberal Organizations and Domination
  David Courpasson
  The post-modernist and post-bureaucratic turn in Organization Studies has contributed to shape a landscape that same seminal thinkers would probably not recognize: empowerment, autonomy and agency, entrepreneurial systems of management, decentralization, cooperation... In short, the demise of bureaucracy is viewed as the unassailable consequence of contemporary political and business dynamics. And if power is not a figure of the past, at least its classical forms and dynamics should be entirely rethought. This book seeks to understand precisely how current organizations are governed, based on the analysis of three managerial reforms: the implementation of marketing practices in the banking sector, project management, and the management of competences in the field of HRM. The book grapples with the eternal and controversial issue of power distribution and political regimes of organizations in turbulent times. The author puts forward a rejuvenated nation of soft bureaucracy and despotism
  Copenhagen Business School Press