Paul D. Allison (University of Pennsylvania)
Paul is Professor of Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania, where he teaches graduate methods and statistics. He is widely recognized as an extraordinarily effective teacher of statistical methods who can reach students with highly diverse backgrounds and expertise. Allison is the author of Missing Data (Sage 2001), Logistic Regression Using the SAS® System: Theory and Application (SAS Institute 1999), Multiple Regression: A Primer (Pine Forge 1999), Survival Analysis Using the SAS® System: A Practical Guide (SAS Institute 1995), Event History Analysis (Sage 1984), and numerous articles on regression analysis, log-linear analysis, logit analysis, latent variable models, missing data, and inequality measures. A former Guggenheim Fellow, he is also on the editorial board of Sociological Methods and Research.  In 2001 he received the Paul Lazarsfeld Memorial Award for Distinguished Contributions to Sociological Methodology. He teaches “Quantitative Research Methods II” in the second year of the program.

 Tugrul Atamer (EMLYON Business School) Globalization
In addition to his role as Dean of Faculty, Tugrul is professor of strategic management at EMLYON. He holds a Doctorate degree in management science from the University of Grenoble. He was also a Visiting Professor at the University of South Carolina. His areas of expertise include strategy, international strategy, organizational change, transnational integration processes within multinational corporations and international transfers of technology and knowledge. Dr. Atamer's research has been extensively published in leading French and international scholarly and management journals, including Long Range Planning, Journal of World Business… In addition he has published several books, including The Dynamics of International Competition (Sage, 1999). He is a founding member of the French Association Internationale de Management Stratégique, and a member of SMS. He is currently on the editorial board of the Journal of World Business. He teaches “Globalization” in the second year of the program.

 Stewart Clegg (University of Technology Sidney)
Stewart has produced many books, including the Academy of Management award-winning Handbook of Organization Studies (1996, with Cynthia Hardy and Walter Nord), the Eight Volume Central Currents in Organization Studies (2003), Debating Organizations (2003), with Robert Westwood, and most recently, and Power in Organizations (with Nelson Phillips and David Courpasson), as well as a very strong stream of top-tier journal articles. He teaches “Writing Skills II: Theorizing Organizations and Management” in the first year of the program.

 David Courpasson (EMLYON Business School)
Professor of sociology, and researcher at OCE Research Center, David is the Editor of Organization Studies. His research interests focus on power dynamics in organizations and on the emergence of new political forms in contemporary management. Recently, he has developed within OCE a research program on new forms of resistance in organizations and published Quand les cadres se rebellent (Vuibert, 2008) with Jean-Claude Thoenig. He teaches “Political and Sociological Thinking” in the second year of the program.

 Françoise Dany (EMLYON Business School)
Professor at EMLYON since 1998, Françoise teaches HRM, OB, career counselling, societal responsibility, as well as theories in sociology and economics focusing on work in organizations. Her research focuses on career theory. Her analysis of the main changes concerning employers’ practices and individuals’ expectations leads her to challenge some assumptions concerning new careers and post-modern organizations. Her research results have been published in several books and articles. Françoise is the Head of OCE Research Centre. She teaches “Critical Perspectives on Organizations” with Eero Vaara in the first year of the program.

 Frédéric Delmar (EMLYON Business School)
Frédéric is a professor at the Strategy and Organization Department at EMLYON. He is also affiliated to the Center for Entrepreneurship and Business Creation, Stockholm School of Economics in Sweden where he also took his PhD. His main research interest lies in the early development of new ventures as well as organizational growth. He finds the behavioral aspects of entrepreneurship to be particularly interesting. His work has been published in a number of journals like Management Science, Strategic Management Journal, Strategic Organization, Journal of Business Venturing, Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, and books. He teaches “Foundations of Entrepreneurial Thinking” in the first year of the program and is in charge of the Chamonix outdoor seminar in the second year of the program.

 Dan Evans (EMLYON Business School)
Dan (PhD, Ohio State University) is the Head of the LifeLong Learning Research Centre at EMLYON. A specialist in continuing education, he is particularly interested in the integration of new teaching technologies. He also teaches entrepreneurship and new venture creation. He teaches “Teaching Skills II” in the second year of the program.

 Bernard Forgues (EMLYON Business School)
Bernard is a professor of organization theory at EMLYON (Strategy and Organization Department). He is also the director of the Ph.D. and Doctoral programs. He holds a doctorate and HDR from Paris-Dauphine University (France). He previously held positions at various French universities, including Paris-Dauphine and IAE-Lille and passed the "Agrégation des Universités" in 1997. He was also a visiting scholar at the Wharton School and in the Sociology department of the University of Pennsylvania. In his research, he takes an evolutionary perspective to study change at the interorganizational level, i.e., within populations, fields and institutions. He finds technological change to be particularly fascinating. His work has been published in Organization Science, Organization Studies, Service Business, International Studies of Management & Organization, and various French outlets. He teaches “Organization Theory” in the first year of the program, is in charge of the “Know Your Classics” seminar (years 2 and 3), and is the Director of the program.

 Pierre-Yves Gomez (EMLYON Business School)
Pierre-Yves is a professor of Strategic Management at EMLYON. He is the director of the French Corporate Governance Institute. His research focuses on corporate governance and political foundations of management science. He has been conducted research on new micro-economic models on collective utility functions and their application to strategy and organization. He is currently working on the links between corporate governance and strategy. He has published numerous articles on political economy and strategy and several award-wining books in French including Qualité et Théorie des Conventions (1994), Le Gouvernement des Entreprises (1996), La République des Actionnaires (2001) and in English including Trust, Firm and Society (1997), The Leap to globalization (2002), Entrepreneurs and Democracy (2008) both with Harry Korine from the London Business School. He teaches “Entrepreneurs and Democracy” in the second year of the program.

 Zied Guedry (EMLYON Business School)
Zied (PhD, Concordia University) is assistant professor in the strategy and organization department at EMLYON Business School. His research interests include strategic group theory, multipoint competition, corporate governance, human resource management, and econometrics. His research has been published in Revue Française de Gestion, Corporate Governance, and International Journal of Human Resource Management (forthcoming). He teaches “Quantitative Research Methods I” in the first year of the program.

 Pascal Langevin (EMLYON Business School)
Pascal is a professor in Management Accounting/Control at EMLYON Business School. He has also been a visiting scholar at the Leventhal School of Accounting of the University of Southern California. A specialist in management control, he has published in The European Journal of Finance, Comptabilité-Contrôle-Audit, Gérer et Comprendre, La Revue du Financier. He teaches “Empirical Research in Management Control” with Ken Merchant in the first year of the program.

 Michael Lubatkin (University of Connecticut & EMLYON Business School)
Michael, Professor of Strategy and Management, holds The Thomas John &  Bette Wolff Family Chair of Strategic Entrepreneurship at the University of Connecticut. He specializes in entrepreneurial issues as they pertain to family and privately-held firms, corporate diversification issues as they pertain to problems of core competency transfer between divisions and across national boundaries. Other areas of interest include mergers and acquisition, cost of capital and risk computations, and top management teams. Professor Lubatkin is an award winning instructor at both the undergraduate and MBA levels. During the past ten years, he has published over 50 articles, and has presented over 90 papers to regional, national and international conferences, and in 2000, he was inducted in the Academy of Management's "Hall of Fame." He teaches “Writing Skills I: The Art and Craft of Doing Strategic Management Research” in the first year of the program.

 Ignasi Martí Lanuza (EMLYON Business School)
Ignasi is Assistant Professor at EMLYON Business School (Strategy and Organization department). He earned his Ph.D. at the IESE Business School (Spain). Originally from Spain, where he graduated in Philosophy and in Economics at University of Barcelona (UB), he was also a visiting scholar at the Said Business School, University of Oxford. His research lies at the intersection of organization theory, economic sociology and entrepreneurship research. More specifically, he is interested in social and institutional change and persistence -in particular how collective actors with limited resources and allegedly little power attempt to promote change (or to prevent it); in how markets get built and the role of ‘non-traditional’ actors (e.g., social entrepreneurs, social movements) in this process. He has published articles in journals such as Journal of Management Inquiry, Journal of Business Venturing (forthcoming), Journal of World Business. He teaches “Social Entrepreneurship” in the second year of the program.

 Kenneth A. Merchant (University of Southern California)
Ken received his PhD in Business Administration in 1978 from the University of California, Berkeley. He is widely known for his research in management accounting and management control systems. Ken has published papers in a wide variety of journals, including Accounting, Organizations and Society, The Accounting Review, Journal of Accounting Research, Journal of Marketing, and Management Accounting Research. He is the recipient of several awards recognizing his contributions to the field of management accounting. He teaches “Empirical Research in Management Control” with Pascal Langevin in the second year of the program.

 Philippe Monin (EMLYON Business School)
Philippe is Professor in Strategic Management and Associate Dean for Research at EMLYON Business School. His current research follows three streams. In the field of strategic management, he studies post-integration processes in domestic and international mergers and acquisitions. Notably, he considers the influence of distributive and procedural justice, exemplarity and trust, perceptions of cultural compatibility, and transitions among identifications on outcome dimensions such as satisfaction and willingness to cooperate. On-going empirical research includes projects with Renault-Nissan, Air France-KLM and Biomérieux-Pierre Fabre. In the field of sociology, he examines the transformation of cultural fields, including notably the wine industry and the French Haute Cuisine field. Current topics include the role of social movements in field transformation; the antecedents and consequences of categorical boundaries erosion, the antecedents and consequences of innovation adoption, and the role of genetic and penal codes in the demography of social forms. Finally, his research looks at identity management and the foundations of hybridism in modern social life. On-going research projects include multiple identification patterns at Air France-KLM, multiple identity management in French Haute Cuisine restaurants, and the relations between identity and image. Contributions have appeared in as prestigious journals as American Journal of Sociology, American Sociological Review, Strategic Management Journal or Organization Science to name a few. Philippe received his Ph.D. in 1998 from University Lyon III-Jean Moulin, France, and the W. Richard Scott Distinguished Award for Scholarly Contribution, from the American Sociological Association, in 2005. He teaches “Strategic Management” in the first year of the program.

 Christophe Roux-Dufort (EMLYON Business School)
Christophe is a professor of strategic management at EMLYON Business School, where he teaches and coordinates seminars on crisis management for students and executives. Christophe has written about thirty scientific and professional articles and four books on crisis management. He also works as a consultant on crisis management for French multinational companies in France and in the United States. Christophe received his M.B.A. degree (1990) from the University Laval (Quebec, Canada) and his Ph.D. degree (1997) from University Paris Dauphine, France. His research interests lie in risk and crisis management, organizational learning and the management of change. He teaches “Teaching Skills I” in the first year of the program.

 Isabelle Royer (Université de Lille)
Isabelle is a Professor of Management at “IAE de Lille”, the business school of the University of Lille 1. She is affiliated with a CNRS research center there called LEM (UMR 8179). She came to academia after a five-year long experience in economic forecasts and market studies. She defended her doctoral dissertation on the dynamics of escalation and de-escalation in Paris Dauphine University in 1999. A paper based on her dissertation won the prestigious Pondy Award (OMT, Academy of Management) and was subsequently published in the Harvard Business Review. Her research focuses on organizational decision-making. Specifically, she studies escalation of commitment and innovation ventures. She studied several cases of escalation in the pharmaceutical, building material, eye glasses, and movie industries. She also conducts theoretical work on decision routines. She’s got a special interest in research methods and try to promote it through regular workshops held within AIMS, the French management association. She teaches “The Scientific Method: Philosophy of Science and Research Design” in the first year of the program.

 David Silverman (University of London)
David is Professor Emeritus, Sociology Department, Goldsmiths College and Visiting Professor, Management Department, King’s College, University of London. He is author/editor of many top-selling qualitative books, including Interpreting Qualitative Data (2/e, Sage, 2001), Qualitative Research Practice (Sage, 2004), Qualitative Research (2/e, Sage, 2004), and Doing Qualitative Research (2/e, Sage, 2004). He is also series editor of Introducing Qualitative Methods. He teaches “Qualitative Design” in the first year of the program.

 Eero Vaara (Hanken School of Economics & EMLYON Business School)
Eero is Professor of Management and Organization at Hanken School of Economics and Visiting Professor at EMLYON Business School. He is the Chair of European Group of Organization Studies (EGOS). He serves on the editorial board of Organization Studies, Organization, Journal of Management Studies, and Journal of Strategy and Management. Eero’s research interest include organizational change (mergers and acquisitions, strategic alliances, shutdowns), discursive perspectives on strategy and strategizing, critical perspectives on MNCs and globalization, and methodological and epistemological issues in management and organization research. He has published in a great variety of outlets in different languages, including Strategic Management Journal (forthcoming), Organization Science, Scandinavian Journal of Management, Academy of Management Review, Journal of International Business Studies, Human Relations, Organization Studies, Journal of Management Studies, International Journal of Human Resource Management, Organization, Journal of Management Inquiry, British Journal of Management, Scandinavian Journal of Management, and M@n@gement. He teaches “Critical Perspectives on Organizations” with Françoise Dany in the first year of the program.

 Bruno Versaevel (EMLYON Business School)
 Bruno is an Associate Professor in Economics and the Head of Economics, Finance and Control Department at EMLYON Business School. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the European University Institute (Italy). His research revolves around industrial economics and has appeared in (among others) Economics Bulletin, Journal of Economic Theory, and Research in Economics. He teaches “Economic Foundations of Business Strategy” in the first year of the program.