Research and Content
You will find here my recent academic research publications and related media publications and content.
The Leadership Balancing Act:
A Two Part Drama
Published: People Matters October 2024
Relationships vs. Networks
Editorial/Opinion Article
Careers of Chance
Comment la chance ou la malchance influence les évolutions de carrière
ChatGPT Launch and Managing Contradictions: Why We Need Ambidextrous Leaders
Organizations face many contradictions. Good ones do not avoid them but see them as moments of opportunity. March 27, 2023 INSEAD Knowledge
Chance & Careers
How much control do people have over their career? We explore this question in the context of professional service firms, long thought of as providing predictable, agentic careers in the up-or-out model. We find that chance developments in proximate work conditions, especially with respect to key relationships and project allocation, shape the possibilities that professionals see for their careers going forward and the actions they take in response. Even in this seemingly predictable career, being continuously attuned to fortuitous turns of events informs how people enact career agency. It also prompts a heightened awareness of the fragile nature of the up-or-out career path, triggering a gradual reconsideration of career possibilities that includes career confirmation, ambivalence, pivot, and fading.
Management Article on Careers and Chance
Forbes India 15/02/23
INSEAD Knowledge 18/11/22
Capital+
German Business Magazine
Jenny Von Zeplin, August 7, 2022
Managing contradictions, a necessary evil in business /
Gérer des contradictions, un mal nécessaire en entreprise
May 18 2021
The Edge Singapore
Singapore, 30 July 2020
The 'invisible' skills leaders need to tackle Covid-19 - Charles Galunic
2020 Backstage Leadership: The Invisible Work of Highly Effective Leaders, Palgrave-Macmillan, London.
2020 Webinar: COVID-19 Pandemic and it’s Implications for Organizations
Insead Continuous Learning Webinar
2020 The Six Biggest Post-Lockdown Challenges for Organisations INSEAD Knowledge June 17 (Lee Seok Hwai)
2020, July 10th, Six Lessons From Pandemic, The Business Times- Singapore’s Business Daily (Lee Seok Hwai)
7 Lessons of Networking
2019 Seven Lessons of Networking Video
Insead Alumni Association
2019 A Theory of Style
Aeon Magazine
2019 Explaining the Popularity of Cultural Elements: Networks, Culture, and the Structural Embeddedness of High Fashion Trends,
Organization Science. (with F. Godart)
2018 Why Great Networkers Are Sometimes Bad for Creative Projects, Harvard Business Review Digital Article, April 11, 2018.
2018 Superando la resistencia al cambio digital, Mundo Empresarial, 17 May
2018 Sustaining Digitization Hinges on Culture. INSEAD Knowledge Article April 12
2018 Homophily and Individual Performance
Organization Science
(with G Ertug, M Gargiulo, T Zou)
2018 When Your Network Matters to Your Neighbors: The Contingent Effects of Brokerage Externalities on Creativity versus Efficiency-Focused Management Roles. Administrative Science Quarterly.
(with A.Shipilov and J.Clement)
(2018) Vous n'aimez pas réseauter? Vous n’êtes pas le seul.
Harvard Business Review France Magazine (February-March, 2018) Page 12
(2017) Structures for the Digital Journey. INSEAD Knowledge Article (Dec 14, 2017)
(2017) Overcoming Resistance to Digital Change. INSEAD Knowledge Article (October 20, 2017)
(2017) Scanning and Responding to Digital Change. INSEAD Knowledge Article (September 22, 2017)
(2017) Vous détestez réseauter ? Vous n’êtes pas le seul. Harvard Business Review (Online) France (August 29, 2017)
(2017) Who You Need for Your Digital Journey, INSEAD Knowledge Article (August 18, 2017)
(2017) A Ten-Point Framework for the Digital Journey, INSEAD Knowledge Article (August 2, 2017)
(2016) How to Get Ahead when you Hate Networking, INSEAD Knowledge Article
(Nov 7, 2016)
(2016) Wild Theories Beat Credibility on Social Media, INSEAD Knowledge Article (Oct 18, 2016)
2016 Relational Changes During Role Transitions: The Interplay of Efficiency and Cohesion, Academy of Management Journal
(with C, Jonczyk, Y. Lee, B. Benasou)
2015 Evaluating Espoused Values: Does Articulating Values Pay Off?
European Management Journal
(with J. Weeks & K. Jonsen & T. Braga)
2014 Deus Ex Machina? Career Progress and the Contingent Benefits of Knowledge Management Systems European Management Journal
(with K. Sengupta & J. Petriglieri)
2014 Players and Purists: Networking Strategies and Agency of Service Professionals Organization Science
(with B. Bensaou & C Jonczyk)
Select Case Studies
Generali Italia: Building Digital Foundations - From Integration to Transformation (case)
Alcatel, Lucent…Nokia: On the Road from 3 to 1 - The Leadership Challenges of Strategic Change (case)
From the Ground Up: The Foundations of Discipline in Adaptive Organizations – The French Air Force (case)
Digital Journeys: 10 Checkpoints in Building a Digital-Ready Company (research note)
Wildfire Entertainment: Organizational Structure Archetypes (case)
Octapharma: Crisis and Leadership (case)