Chair in Work and Organisational Change

The Chair in Work and Organisational Change provides a hub for thinking about the factors driving change in business and other organisations and their consequences, and about the jobs and forms of employment of the future. Given the current context of growing organisational and societal complexity, critical reflection on these transformations is imperative.

The Chair aims to become a reference in Europe and a platform for producing research and teaching, through cooperation between researchers and faculty from Sciences Po’s five disciplines, companies, experts and practitioners, public stakeholders, regulatory institutions, and students. Debates and events featuring prominent figures demonstrate this ambition for broad-based dialogue. The Chair also supports the translation of research findings into dedicated course offerings within Sciences Po Master’s programmes.

Team and governance

The Chair is hosted by the Sciences Po School of Management and Impact.

Permanent team

The permanent team manages the Chair’s projects on a day-to-day basis and maintains relations with partners, the academic community within and outside Sciences Po, and the graduate schools, in particular the School of Management and Impact and Executive Education.

• Henri Bergeron: chairholder – CNRS senior researcher, professor of sociology at Sciences Po, member of the Centre for the Sociology of Organisations and author of many academic books and articles.
• Patrick Castel: scientific coordinator – FNSP senior researcher – Centre for the Sociology of Organisations
• Corinne Dequecker: academic affairs coordinator – EMI – academic coordinator of the Master in Sustainable Governance and HR
• 2 postdoctoral fellows
• 1 coordinator

Executive Committee

The Executive Committee regularly advises on any issue that merits strategic attention and provides support where necessary.

• Permanent team
• Olivier Borraz – CNRS senior researcher – Centre for the Sociology of Organisations
• Pauline Barraud de Lagerie – lecturer – Université Paris Dauphine
• Natacha Gally – lecturer – CERSA Université de Paris
• Florent Bonaventure – EMI executive director

Scientific Advisory Board (SAB)

Chaired by School of Management and Impact Dean Natacha Valla and composed of ten or so Sciences Po permanent faculty members and external experts, the board’s mission is to approve the Chair’s medium- and long-term scientific orientations.

Research Themes

Our society features increasingly complex and interdependent organisations. These organisations, particularly companies, must be able to adapt to change (digitisation, new demands for social and ecological responsibility) and anticipate and reorganise in response to major crises (health, environmental, financial, cyber-attacks, etc.). The Chair in Work and Organisational Change intends to enhance research-based knowledge on the nature, extent, dynamics and drivers of these changes, in terms of both the sociological and managerial issue of change, and the evolving employment and skills landscape.

The Chair also produces innovative educational content, offering skills and expertise to equip the next generation of decision-makers who will have to lead these transformations. Finally, it aims to promote dialogue between researchers, managers, policy-makers and civil society organisations (associations, trade unions, NGOs, etc.).

This initiative comes at a critical time, amid a context of crisis and post-COVID normalisation.

Research Priorities

• Work, the status of workers, occupations and professional practices: changing job profiles, simultaneous emergence of intersectoral fungibility for certain skills and of hyper-specialisation; changing organisation of work, emergence of collaborative economies and the platform economy; changing career paths and career management, normalisation of new nomadic careers, differentiated worker engagement, remote working.
• Organisational management, processes and structures: focus on the restructuring of relations between actors required both for rolling out new technologies and subsequent to their implementation; managerial reorganisations and relations between actors resulting from the change of business models to target socially and environmentally responsible objectives.
• Business governance: new management approaches enabled by digital technology (changes in management methods and tools, particularly data-driven management); increased demand for employee participation in the strategic governance of organisations; changes in social dialogue, particularly linked to changes in international standards; new relations with the authorities for the co-production of collective goods (firms’ contribution to reducing inequalities, public health, justice, environmental protection, etc.).

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Contact Us

Caterina Sabbatini Clec'h 
Director of research projects
+33 (0)1 45 49 55 53
caterina.sabbatinclech@sciencespo.fr