Rodolphe Durand

About Rodolphe Durand

Rodolphe Durand is a professor at HEC Paris and is regularly invited to numerous universities, including Harvard Business School in 2012, Cambridge University, and New York University in 2011. In February 2015, his Mooc on Coursera ‘Time To Reorganize’ achieved great success (16,000 subscribers, 10,000 active users, 180 countries), providing a new perspective on the role of management in a world shaken by individual disengagement. His work and lectures focus on the strategic, institutional, and social origins of competitive advantages developed by organizations in general and companies in particular. Rodolphe is the author of numerous works, including

• The Disorganization of the World (Eds Bord de l’Eau, 2013) and The Pirate Organization (co-written with JP Vergne, Eds Bord de l’Eau, 2010), which provide perspective on themes of strategic innovation, the legitimacy of management, and the evolution of capitalism.
• Organizational Evolution and Strategic Management (Sage, 2006)
• The Guide to Strategic Management (Dunod, 2003)
• Enterprise and Economic Evolution (Belin, 2000),

He has received several awards for his contributions, including the best young researcher award (AIMS, 1999), the Scott 2005 award for the best article in organizational sociology (awarded by the American Sociological Association), the Euram/Imagination Lab award for innovative scholarship (2010), and the HEC Foundation award for best researcher (2012).