David Courpasson

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

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

Power and Politics : MSc in Management Program
Politics and Management : MBA Program
* 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

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

Ouvrage(s)

• 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