Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches, IAE de Lille, France, 2006.

PhD in Management, University Paris IX Dauphine, France, 1997.

International Teachers Program (ITP), INSEAD, 1993

M.B.A, Laval University, Canada, 1990.

From 2000: Professor in Strategic Management, E.M.LYON.

Managerial positions

- From 2007: Head of the department of Strategy and Organization, EM LYON Business School

Visiting positions

- 2003-2008 : INSEAD, Fontainebleau, Advanced Management Programme (CEDEP) – Crisis Management
       
- 2000 and 2001 (Summer): THAMMASAT UNIVERSITY, Bangkok, Thailand – Strategic Change

- 2006 (Summer) : AARHUS SCHOOL OF BUSINESS, Denmark  - Crisis Learning

- 2006 (Spring) : UNIVERSITY OF BOCCONI, Milan, Italy – Crisis Management

1994 - 2000 : Associate Professor in Strategic Management, EDHEC, Lille, France

1991 – 1994 : Assistant Professor in Strategic Management, Groupe ESC Nantes Atlantique, France.

1990  :  Research and teaching assistant, Laval University, Canada

PEER REVIEWED JOURNALS

Roux-Dufort, C. The devil lies in details. How crises build up within organizations, Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management, 17 (1), 2009.

Roux-Dufort, C. Is crisis management (only) a management of exception? Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management, 15 (1): 105-114, 2007.

Roux-Dufort, C. Comment en est-on arrive là ? Du terrain de crise à la catastrophe (How did we get up to this point ? From Crisis Preconditions to Catastrophes), Revues Espaces, 2005, 85 : 24-39.

Roux-Dufort, C., Vidaillet, B. The difficulty of improvising in crisis situations: a case study, International Studies in Management and Organisation, 33(1): 86-115, 2003.

Roux-Dufort, C. Why organizations don’t learn from crises, Review of Business, 21(3): 25-30, 2000.

Roux-Dufort, C. Le naufrage du car-ferry Herald of Free Enterprise. Une crise à double visage (The Herald of Free Enterprise Wreck. A Double Faceted Crisis), Gérer et Comprendre, 56 : 90-100, 1999.

Roux-Dufort, C. Apprendre des crises : entre statu quo et transformation (Learning from Crises : Between Statut Quo and Transformation), Sciences de la Société, 44 : 165-181, 1998.

Roux-Dufort, C., Métais, E.  Building Core Competencies through Organizational Learning: the Case of a French Nuclear Power Producer, Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 60(2): 113-127, 1999.

Roux-Dufort, C., Borredon, L. Pour une organisation apprenante : la place du dialogue et du mentorat (Learning Organizations : The Role of Dialogue and Mentoring), Gestion, 23(1): 42 - 52, 1998.

Roux-Dufort, C. Crises : des possibilités d'apprentissage pour l'entreprise (Crises : Learning Opportunities for Organizations), Revue Française de Gestion, 108: 79-89, 1996.

Roux-Dufort, C., Pauchant, T. Rumors and Crises: a case study in the banking industry, Industrial and Environmental Crisis Quarterly, 7(3): 231-251, 1993.

Reedited in Mars, G. & Weir, D. 1998. Risk Management, Vol. I, Croft Road, England, Ashgate Publishing Limited.

OTHER JOURNALS

Roux-Dufort, C., Ramboatiana, S.  Crise et Sentiment : Le cycle d'incompétence habile (Crisis and Emotions : The Skilled Incompetence Cycle), L'Expansion Management Review, Printemps 2008.

Roux-Dufort, C., Vidaillet, B. La décision en situation de crise : partager le sens de l’urgence pour réduire les erreurs (Decision-Making in times of Crisis : Sharing the Sense of Urgency to Reduce Errors), Management et Conjoncture Sociale, 619 : 43-47, 2003.

Roux-Dufort, C. Gestion de crise : dépasser les mythes pour agir (Crisis Management : Beyond Myths), Management et Conjoncture Sociale, 617, Hiver 2003, (Editor of the Special Issue).

Roux-Dufort, C., Ramboatiana, S. Les crises organisationnelles : fièvre ou cholera ? (Organizational Crises : Fever or Cholera ?), Préventique, 2005.

Roux-Dufort, C. Risques technologiques majeurs. Vers la notion de risque symbolique (Major Technological Risks. Toward the notion of Symbolic Risk), Préventique, Septembre-octobre 2000, 26-30.

CHAPTERS IN BOOKS

(forthcoming) Roux-Dufort, C. «Crise et psychologie : De la crise externe au conflit intérieur» (Crisis and Psychology : From External Crisis to Inner Conflicts) In Portal, T. (Ed.), 2009 : Crises : Quand le facteur humain s’en mêle, Dunod, Paris.

Roux-Dufort, C. «Les processus de développement des crises» (A Processual Approach of Crisis Management), In Institut des Hautes Etudes de Défense Nationale (Ed.), Comprendre l'Intelligence Economique, Economica, 2008, Paris, 138-146.

Roux-Dufort, C. «L'apprentissage organisationnel post-crise» (Learning from Crises), In Kalika, M., Romelaer, P. 2007: Recherches en Management et Organisation, Economica, Paris, 261-276.

Roux-Dufort, C. «A passion for imperfection. Crisis Management Revisited», In Pearson, C., Roux-Dufort, C. and Clair, J. 2007: The International Handbook of Organizational Crisis Management, Sage, 221-252.

Roux-Dufort, C. «Le dirigeant face aux situations de crise» (How Leaders Cope with Crises), In Bournois, F., Duval-Hamel, J., Roussillon, S. et Scaringella, J.L. 2007, Comités Exécutifs. Voyage au cœur de la dirigeance, Eyrolles, Paris, 549-558.

Roux-Dufort, C. «Gestion de crise» (Crisis Management), In MBA. L’essentiel du management par les meilleurs professeurs, 2006, Paris, Editions d’Organisation, 453-472.

Roux-Dufort, C. « La performance, anti-chambre de la crise » (Performance : Antechamber of Crises), In Heilbrunn, B. (Ed.). 2004. Critique de la performance, Paris, La Découverte, 144-162.

Roux-Dufort, C. « La construction d’une théorie de la fiabilité organisationnelle » (Building a Theory of Organizational Reliability), In Vidaillet, B. (Ed.). 2003. Le sens de l’action. Karl E. Weick : sociopsychologie de l’organisation, Paris, Vuibert, 139-157.

Roux-Dufort, C. « L’apprentissage organisationnel et le développement des organisations » (Organizational Learning and Organizational Development), In Durand, R. (Ed.). 2002. Développement des Organisations : Nouveaux Regards, Paris, Economica, 111-134.

Roux-Dufort, C., Evrard, K. « Fusions-Acquisitions : de la gestion de crise au pilotage du changement » (Mergers and Acquisitions : From Crisis to Change Management), In Thiétart, R.A. & Martinet, A.C. (Eds). 2001. Faire de la recherche en management stratégique, Paris, Vuibert, 211-226.

Roux-Dufort, C. « Apprentissage organisationnel et création de connaissance dans le contexte de la gestion des crises » (Organizational Learning and Knowledge Creation in the Context of Crisis Management), In Nonaka, I., Takeuchi, H. & Ingham, M. 1997. La connaissance créatrice. La dynamique de l'entreprise apprenante, Louvain-la-Neuve, De Boeck Université, Série Management, 282-284.

BOOKS

(forthcoming) Roux-Dufort, C. Une théorie de la crise en Sciences de Gestion (A Processual Theory of Crisis Management), Paris, Lavoisier, 2009.

Roux-Dufort, C., Ramboatiana, S. Vive l’incompétence ! Transformer ses limites en talents (In Praise of Incompetence! Turning Limits into Talents), Paris, Pearson, 2009.

Pearson, C., Roux-Dufort, C. & Clair, J. (Eds) The International Handbook of Crisis Management, Thousand Oaks, Sage, 2007.

Aubert, N., Roux-Dufort, C. Le culte de l’urgence. La société malade du temps (The Cult of Emergency. An Analysis of Time in Modern Societies), Paris, Flammarion, 2003.

Roux-Dufort, C. Gérer et décider en situation de crise - outils de diagnostic, de prévention et de décision (Crisis Management : Diagnosis, Prevention and Decision-Making), Paris, Dunod, 2000 (2nd   edition, 2003).

Roux-Dufort, C. La gestion des crises - un enjeu stratégique pour les organisations (Crisis Management : A Strategic Approach), Louvain-la-Neuve, De Boeck Université, Série Management, 1999.

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

Roux-Dufort, C., Moore, R.  Reasons NOT to despair. A framework for learning from economic crises, 69th Annual Academy of Management Meetings, Chicago, August 2009

Roux-Dufort, C. Is there a grand narrative of risk management? 24th EGOS Colloquium, Amsterdam, July 2008.

Roux-Dufort, C. How unusual events reflect usual vulnerabilities. A processual theory of crisis, 24th EGOS Colloquium, Amsterdam, July 2008.

Roux-Dufort, C. Dautun, C. & Dusserre, G. Dealing with large scale crises: Avenues for quantification and decision-making supports, Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management Conference, Amsterdam, June 2007.

Roux-Dufort, C. A passion for imperfections: revisiting crisis management, 65th Annual Academy of Management Meetings, Honolulu, August 2005.

Roux-Dufort, C. How imperfections turn into crises: unnoticing, normalizing, denying, escalating, International Workshop on Crisis Management, Ecole des Mines, Nice- Sophia-Antipolis, November 2005.

Roux-Dufort, C. Perspectives on Crisis Management and Crisis Leadership, Defining Leadership. A forum to discuss crisis leadership competencies, Darden Graduate School of Business, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, October 2004.

Roux-Dufort, C. From risks to crises: when managerial ignorance overrides regulations, 20th EGOS Colloquium, Ljubljana, July 2004.

Roux-Dufort, C. Groups as vectors of organizational learning: a typology, 19th EGOS Colloquium, Copenhagen, July 2003.

Roux-Dufort, C., Durand, R. High reliability as an emergent pattern of actions. A study of organizational reliability based on routines and creativity, 18th EGOS Colloquium, Barcelona, July 2002.

Roux-Dufort, C., Durand, R. Are flexibility and reliability compatible in HROs ? A critical discussion of flexible behaviors in high risk systems, Managing Risk across borders: Issues in globalisation, knowledge and the management of crisis, University of Innsbruck, June 2002.

Roux-Dufort, C., Durand, R. Variable uncertainty, organizational invariability. A study of organizational reliability based on routines and creativity, Uncertainty in Technological Innovation Processes, La Sorbonne, Paris, October 2001

Roux-Dufort, C. Urgences et crises technologiques : les pièges du temps (Emergency and Technological Crises : The Traps of Time), Symposium Temps, travail et urgence, 13th Annual Meeting on Socio-Economics, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, July 2001.

Roux-Dufort, C., Ramboatiana, S. Using Theater improvisation techniques to fuel entrepreneurial processes: insights from theory and practice, 17th EGOS Colloquium, Lyon, July 2001.

Gatot, L., Roux-Dufort, C. & Jacques, J.M. From post-crisis learning to preventive learning : some empirical evidence for a preventive learning management tool, 59th Annual Academy of Management Meetings, Chicago, August 1999, In the symposium : Organization Management Theory and Organizational Behavior.

Roux-Dufort, C., Borredon, L. The learning organizations: the role of dialogue and mentor, 58th Annual Academy of Management Meetings, San Diego, August 1998

Roux-Dufort, C., Arregle, J.L. Technological disruptions and organizational learning: a conceptual framework », 13th EGOS Colloquium, Budapest, July 1997.

Roux-Dufort, C., Métais, E. Vision stratégique et formes d’apprentissage organisationnel : des stratégies d’adéquation aux stratégies d’intention (Strategic Intent and Organizational Learning Models : From Alignment to Intent Strategies), 6ième Conférence de l’Association Internationale de Management Stratégique (AIMS), HEC Montréal, May 1997.

Roux-Dufort, C., Métais, E. Building Core Competencies Through Organizational Learning : The Case of a French Nuclear Power Producer, 16th Annual Conference of the Strategic Management Society, Phoenix, November 1996.

FEATURED IN THE PRESS

Roux-Dufort, C., Société Générale : Ignorance et déséquilibre (Société Générale : Ignorances and Imbalances), Les Echos,  February, 21st, 2008.

Roux-Dufort, C., Libaert, T., La présidence des crises (Sarkozy : The President of Crises), La Tribune, March, 1st , 2007.

Roux-Dufort, C., Libaert, T., Réflexions sur la possibilité d'une grippe (Insights on the Probability of an Influenza), Le Monde, November, 2nd,  2005.

Roux-Dufort, C., Libaert, T., La crise permanente (The Permanent Crisis), Les Echos, Rubriques Idées, December, 30th, 2004.

Roux-Dufort, C. Missions nouvelles pour le risk-manager (New Missions for Risk Managers), L’Expansion, Les Cahiers du Management, March, 2004, p. 19.

Roux-Dufort, C., Libaert, T., L’année de toutes les crises météorologiques (The Year of All Natural Crises), Le Figaro, December, 30th, 2003.

Roux-Dufort, C., La canicule et la fin des certitudes (The Heat Wave and the End of Certainties), La Tribune, September, Septembre 1st, 2003.

Roux-Dufort, C., Derrière la crise, la vérité (September 11th : Behind the Crisis…the Truth), Les Echos, Rubrique Idées, September, 24th, 2001.

Roux-Dufort, C., Les nouveaux déséquilibres d'une société à haut risque (The High Risk Society), Les Echos, Rubrique Idées, January, 17th, 2000.

Research Interests:Crisis management
Crisis communication
Risk management
Organizational learning and change

SELECTED CONSULTING ACTIVITIES

- MICHELIN (from 2002): Design of the Emergency and Crisis Management Plan for Product Defects and preparation of Crisis Drills for Michelin Asia (Shanghai and Bangkok) and Michelin United States (Greenville, S.C)

- TUPPERWARE (from 2005): Preparation of Crisis Drills for Tupperware France and Europe (Portugal, Belgium)

- AIRBUS INDUSTRY (2006): Design of an Emergency Response Plan in support of A380 Air Crashes and preparation of Crisis Drills including 4 countries (Germany, Spain, France and Britain)

- CITY OF LYON (2008): Diagnosis of Crisis Exposure and Design of the Crisis Management Plan

- French native
- Fluent in English
- Fluent in Italian

- Strategic Management (M.S in management, MBA, Executive Education)
- Crisis Management (M.S in management, MBA, Executive Education)
- Strategic Change Management (MBA, Executive Education)
- Sustainable Development (M.S in management)
- Crisis Management and Change (PhD Seminar)
- Teaching Skills (PhD Seminar)

Professional memberships

- European Group of Organization Studies (EGOS)
- Strategic Management Society (SMS)
- Academy of Management (Division OMT)