ESSEC Research Recognized at the Syntec Management Awards

Raymond-Alain Thietart, distinguished professor, Management Department, awarded the prix académique de la recherche en management for his paper Strategy Dynamics: Agency, Path Dependency, and Self-Organized Emergence.

On Thursday, April 14, 2016, Syntec (ConsultinFrance) hosted their annual Academic Management Research Awards in 5 categories. In the Finance & Strategy category, ESSEC is pleased to congratulate laureate Raymond-Alain Thietart, distinguished professor, Management Department.

His paper, Strategy Dynamics: Agency, Path Dependency, and Self-Organized Emergence, addresses one of the central issues of strategy, namely: can leaders and their organizations act upon their choices?
The results challenge the idea that the strategic action and particularly its temporality arises from the deliberate choice of a leader. They show, however, that the evolution of the strategy is the result of a complex combination of will, chance, determinism, and self-organization.
Read more about his paper on ESSEC Knowledge

Raymond-Alain Thietart is a member of ESSEC Management Department and teaches in the Grande Ecole, PhD and Executive Education programs. Raymond-Alain is a Fellow of the Academy of Management.

ESSEC’s Anne Jeny, professor, Accounting & Management Control Department, was among the finalists for her paper: The Validity of Auditor Industry Specialization Measures.