David Courpasson

1997 Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches in Sociology, University of Paris 10, September
1993 Ph.D. in Sociology, University of Lyon, February.
1988 MSc in Sociology, University of Lyon
1987 MSc in Socio-Economy, University of Lyon
1985 MSc in Management

2010: Visiting Professor, Cardiff Business School
2006-2008 : Director of the EMLYON PhD in Management
2006 : Visiting Professor, Lancaster University, the Management School
2004-2008 : Associate Dean for Research EM LYON Business School
2003-2004 : Visiting Scholar, The Fuqua School of Business, Duke University, USA
1999-2003 : Director of the Strategy and Management Department EM LYON Business School
Since 1999 : Professor of Organizational Sociology, , Strategy and Organization Department, EM LYON Business School
1997-1999 : Associate Professor of Organizational Sociology, HRM Department, EM LYON Business School
1993-1997 : Senior Research Fellow, Head of the Strategy and Human Resources Team, EM LYON Research Center
1988-1993 : Research Fellow, EM LYON, EM LYON Research Center
1987-1988 : Research Assistant, Socio-Economy Inst. for Organizations and Institutions CNRS/University of Lyon

Services
Editor in Chief, Organization Studies, 2008-
Co-editor of Organization Studies 2004-2008
Senior Editor of Organization Science 1998-2004
Member of the Editorial Review Board of Organization Science 2004-

Member of the Editorial Board of Organization 1996-2005
Member of EGOS and AoM
EM LYON : Member of the Faculty Committee, of the Scientific Committee (2004-2008)
Reviewer for Organization Studies, Organization, Revue Française de Gestion, Organization Science, European Management Review, Academy of Management Review.

 

Selected Publications

Courpasson, D. (with I. Marti & Saulo Dubard Barbosa) 2012. “Living in the Fishbowl”. Generating an Entrepreneurial Culture in a Local Community in Argentina.  Journal of Business Venturing.

BOOK. Courpasson, D. (with Thoenig, J.C.) (2008) Quand les cadres se rebellent. Paris : Vuibert (Trad: When Managers Rebel. London: Palgrave. 2010)

Courpasson, D. (with Clegg, S. and F. Dany) Resisters at Work. Generating Productive Resistance in the Workplace.  Organization Science. Articles in Advance. DOI 10.187/orsc.1110.0657.

Courpasson, D. (with Golsorkhi, D. and J. Sallaz) eds (2012). Reconsidering Forms of Power in Organizing. Research in the Sociology of Organizations, vol 34.

Courpasson, D. (with Golsorkhi, D. And J. Sallaz). (2012) Dominating and Resisting Work(s) on the Agenda? Introduction to the Research in the Sociology of Organizations, Vol. 34.

Courpasson, D. (with Clegg S.) (2012). Polyarchic Organizations. In Courpasson, D., Golsorkhi D and J.Sallaz (eds.) Reconsidering Forms of Power in Organizing. Research in the Sociology of Organizations, Vol. 34.

Courpasson, D. and Dany, F. (2009) Cultures of Resistance in the Workplace. In Clegg, S.R. and Haugaard, M. (eds.) Handbook of Power. Sage : 332-347.

Courpasson, D. and Golsorkhi, D. (2009)  Les productivités du pouvoir. Résistances et pouvoirs dans et autour des organisations de la seconde modernité. Revue Française de Gestion, 35 (193) : 61-71.

Courpasson, D. (2008) ‘Social Movements in/and Organizations’, the International Encyclopedia of Organization Studies, Clegg, S. and J. Bailey (eds.) Sage.

Courpasson, D. (2008) ‘Domination’, the International Encyclopaedia of Organization Studies, Clegg, S. and J. Bailey (eds.). Sage.

Courpasson, D. and Guedri, Z. (2007) Les professeurs-chercheurs en management face à la performance scientifique. Revue Française de Gestion 33/178-179 : 173-194.

Courpasson, D. (2007) We have always been oligarchs. Business Elite in Polyarchy. Handbook of Macro-Organizational Behaviour, S. Clegg and C. Cooper (eds.) : Sage: 424-441.

Courpasson, D. (2007) “Organizations as Political Regimes. The notion of Democracy in the Contemporary Business World”. Encyclopaedia of Sociology (G. Ritzer ed.), Blackwell.

BOOK. Courpasson, D. (with Clegg S. and N. Phillips) (2006) Power in Organizations. Sage. Foundations in Organization Science Series. London.

BOOK. Courpasson, D. (2006) Soft Constraint. Liberal Organizations and Domination. Liber/Copenhagen Business School Press.

Courpasson, D. and S. Clegg (2006) “Dissolving the Iron Cages ? Tocqueville, Michels, Bureaucracy and the Perpetuation of Elite Power”. Organization.13(3): 319-343.

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

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

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

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

BOOK. Courpasson, D. (2000) L'action contrainte. Organisations libérales et domination. Paris : Presses Universitaires de France

Courpasson, D. (1999) " Entre fascination et dénonciation. Sociologie et management des organisations ", Sociologie du travail, 41 : 295-305.

Courpasson, D. (1998) Le changement est un outil politique. Revue Française de Gestion, n° 120, sept-octobre : 6-16

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

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

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

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

Courpasson, D. (1994) "Marché concret et identité professionnelle locale. La construction de l'identité par le rapport au marché ", Revue Française de Sociologie, XXXV : 197-229.

Courpasson, D and Y.F. Livian (1993) " Training for Strategic Change. Some conditions of effectiveness. A case in the Banking Sector in France". The International Journal of Human Resource Management, 4/2: 465-479.

Papers in Progress
Courpasson, D. (with F. Dany and I. Marti) Entrepreneur in Spite of Himself. Struggling for Values in a Highly Constraining Environment.

Courpasson; D. (with F. Dany and D. Martuccelli) Cynics or Critics? Ethnography of Hunger Strikers-Bloggers.

Courpasson, D. (with F. Dany) Activistes mesurés: résister sans le dire.

Recent conference papers

Courpasson, D., Dany, F., & Ignasi Marti (2010) Targeting Oppression through Political Entrepreneuring. Paper presented at the LAEMOS Conference. April, Buenos Aires. (Prepared for submission to AMJ)

Courpasson, D. (With I. Marti & Saulo Dubard-Barbosa) (2010) Creating a Culture of Critique in a Context of Powerlessness. Paper presented at the LAEMOS Conference, April, Buenos Aires.

Courpasson, D. Clegg, S.R and F. Dany. (2008) You should listen to us. Processes of Accomodation to Unexpected Resistance in the Workplace. Academy of Management Conference, Chicago.

Courpasson, D. (2008) Symposium on Editing Journals, CMS Division, Academy of Management Conference, Chicago.

Courpasson, D. (2008) Accomodating Resistance : a story. OTREG Seminar, HEC, Paris.

Convenor of the Track on Power and Resistance (with D. Golsorkhi) (2007), EGOS Conference, Vienna.

Courpasson, D. and S. Clegg “From Bureaucracies to Polyarchies. Power revisited”. American Political Science Association, Philadelphia, August 2006.

Courpasson, D., Dany, F. and T. Melkonian “A Pluralistic View of Managerial Innovation Diffusion: The Dynamics of Top Managers’ Consent and Rebellion”. Academy of Management Conference, Atlanta, August 2006.

Courpasson D. (2004) "Oligarchy and the professionals. Project management and the production of corporate elite", Keynote at the Making Projects Critical Workshop, Bristol Un., UK

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

Courpasson, D. (2004) Polyarchies and the production of business elites. Invited presentation at the Fuqua School of Business, Duke University, NC, May.

Courpasson, D. (2003) “Trite News Story or Signs of the Times? Variations around the Power of Bureaucracies”. Defending Bureaucracy Workshop, Oxford University, March.

Awards, Prizes and Grants

Stylo d'Or (2008) : Prize of the best HR Book of the Year delivered by the French Association of HR Managers for "Quand les cadres se rebellent" - Paris Vuibert (with Thoenig, JC)

Mutations et Travail (Work and Mutations) Awards (2008) for the book "Quand les cadres se rebellent" - Paris Vuibert (with Thoenig, JC)

Institute of Political Sciences / Le Monde Award (2008) for the book "Quand les cadres se rebellent" - Paris Vuibert (with Thoenig, JC)

Grant from the National Research Agency (2088-2011) for project on Productive resistance in the workplace. 140.000€. Grant number ANR-07-ENTRE-010-01

French (native)

English (fluent)

German (good notions)

Power and Politics and Social Movements: MSc in Management Program
Foundational Perspectives in Sociology: PhD EM LYON

Executive Education : Seminars for Lyonnaise de Banque, Société Générale, Banque Régionale de l'Ain, Aventis, EDF, La Poste.
 

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