Olivier BERTHOD
Human Resources and Organizational Behavior
Professeur permanent
Presentation
Biography
Olivier Berthod is an associate professor in the Human Resources and Organizational Behavior Department. He is also a member of the CEREFIGE research laboratory at the University of Lorraine, and an adjunct professor of management and organization at the Constructor University Bremen, Germany. He holds Masters degrees in management from the Universities of Paris Dauphine and Linné in Växjö, Sweden, and received his Ph.D. from the Freie Universität Berlin, Germany. His research focuses on ways to improve organizational reliability and institutional decision-making in businesses, public sector and nonprofit organizations. His work has been the subject of awards (Best Paper in public management by the German Academic Association of Business Research in 2017, Best Paper of the EGOS Colloquium in 2016) and has appeared in leading outlets such as the Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, Journal of Management Inquiry, Public Management Review, Public Administration, and Organizational Research Methods.
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Degrees and Training
| Year | Title | Institution | Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | Ph.D | Freie Universit盲t | Germany |
| 2006 | Master of Management, Research Specialty/DEA 101 | Universit茅 Paris 9 Dauphine | France |
| 2005 | Master of Social Science | V盲xj枚 Universitet | Sweden |
Courses Taught
| Year | Title | Country | Institution |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | Strategic Challenge / Company Challenge | France | 91影视破解版 Business School |
| 2022 | Thematic Paradigms II (Sustainability) | France | 91影视破解版 Business School |
| 2021 | Sustainable management of organisations | Germany | 91影视破解版 Business School |
| 2021 | Intercultural Management | Germany | 91影视破解版 Business School |
| 2021 | CreaCthon | France | 91影视破解版 Business School |
| 2021 | Introduction to Interdisciplinarity | France | 91影视破解版 Business School |
| 2021 | Innovation Management | China (PRC) | East China University of Science and Technology (ECUST) |
| 2021 | De la Ressource Humaine 脿 la Richesse Humaine | France | 91影视破解版 Business School |
| 2021 | Management Organizational behavior: a Tranversal Perspective | France | 91影视破解版 Business School |
| 2018 | Methods of Interviewing | Germany | German Academic Association of Business Research |
| 2017 | Organization and HRM | Germany | Jacobs University |
| 2017 | Diversity and Cross-Cultural Management | Germany | Jacobs University |
| 2017 | Fundamentals of Public and Nonprofit Management | Germany | Jacobs University |
| 2017 | Inter-organizational Relations | Germany | Jacobs University |
| 2016 | Qualitative Research Methods I and II | Germany | Freie Universit盲t |
| 2016 | Organization Theory | Germany | Freie Universit盲t |
| 2016 | Strategy | France | ESCP Europe |
| 2011 | Organization and Management | France | ESCP Europe |
Research Interests
- Organization Studies
- Organizational behavior
- Public management
- Business Strategy
Publications
| Year | Type | Reference |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Journal article | GROTHE-HAMMER, M., O. BERTHOD, G. MUELLER-SEITZ, J. SYDOW, “Co-fabricating the permanent to enable temporary organizing: Insights from an ethnography of emergency response operations”, International Journal of Project Management, November 2025, vol. 43, no. 102768, pp. 1-14 |
| 2024 | Journal article | BERKOWITZ, H., O. BERTHOD, M. GROTHE-HAMMER, “Vers une th茅orie d茅cisionnelle des organisations – Revue narrative des apports francophones 脿 l鈥櫭ヽole europ茅enne des organisations”, Revue 贵谤补苍莽补颈蝉e de Gestion, July – August 2024, vol. 50, no. 317, pp. 91-110 |
| 2024 | Communications in an Academical or Professional conference | GROTHE-HAMMER, M., J. SYDOW, O. BERTHOD, G. M脺LLER-SEITZ, “The co-fabrication of the permanent for enabling the temporary: A case study of emergency response operations as temporary organizations” in International Research Society for Public Management, 2024, Tampere, Finland |
| 2024 | Communications in an Academical or Professional conference | BERTHOD, O., M. GROTHE-HAMMER, J. SYDOW, G. M脺LLER-SEITZ, “The co-fabrication of the permanent for enabling the temporary – A case study of emergency response operations as temporary organizations” in EURAM, 2024, Bath, Great Britain |
| 2024 | Communications in an Academical or Professional conference | BRUDER, I., O. BERTHOD, D. GIUSTINI, “Sub-theme 17: Accounts of Organizing in Space and Time from Practice-Based Perspectives: Connecting the Threads (Convenor)” in 40th EGOS Colloquium, 2024, Milan, Italy |
| 2024 | Communications in an Academical or Professional conference | BERTHOD, O., “Gouvernance collaborative, gouverner le collaboratif” in Entretiens de l’Innovation Territoriale 2024 : Gouvernance locale : Comment manager des politiques publiques complexes ?, 2024, Lille, France |
| 2024 | Communications in an Academical or Professional conference | GEBHARDT, L., O. BERTHOD, K. FINSTAD-MILION, “Track chair ” Public Engagement in Responsible Management Research and Education. Good Practice from Case Studies and New Methods” in 11th Responsible Management Education Research Conference, 2024, Berlin, Germany |
| 2024 | Communications in an Academical or Professional conference | BERTHOD, O., OUMESSAOUD, A., FINSTAD-MILION, K., & SONNTAG, C. (2024, September). From Classroom to Community: Integrating Disability Awareness into Business School Pedagogy. [Communications in an Academical or Professional conference]. 11th Responsible Management Education Research Conference, Berlin, Germany |
| 2023 | Journal article | BLANCHET, T., O. BERTHOD, C. HERZBERG, “Exploring user co-regulation of public services: insights from the Grenoble water user committee”, Public Management Review, July 2023, vol. 25, no. 7, pp. 1408-1426 |
| 2023 | Journal article | BERTHOD, O., T. BLANCHET, H. BUSCH, C. KUNZE, C. NOLDEN, M. WENDERLICH, “The rise and fall of energy democracy: 5 cases of collaborative governance in energy systems”, Environmental Management, March 2023, vol. 71, no. 3, pp. 551-564 |
| 2023 | Book Chapter | CUNHA MENESES ABRANTES, A., O. BERTHOD, “The improvisational arc” in The Routledge Companion to Improvisation in Organizations., Miguel Pina e Cunha, Dusya Vera, Ant贸nio Cunha Meneses Abrantes, Anne Miner Eds, Routledge, pp. 95-114, 2023 |
| 2023 | Communications in an Academical or Professional conference | BERTHOD, O., “Cross-sector collaborations for environmental and climate action: How much 鈥渙rganization鈥� do they need to deliver?” in EGOS (European Group for Organizational Studies), 39th Colloquium, 2023, Cagliari, Italy |
| 2023 | Expert report | APELT, M., O. BERTHOD, C. BREUER – “Organisatorische Voraussetzungen der Notfallvorsorge f眉r Kulturg眉ter” – 2023, Leopoldina Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften, Halle, Germany |
| 2022 | Book Chapter | GROTHE-HAMMER, M., H. BERKOWITZ, O. BERTHOD, “Decisional organization theory: towards an integrated framework of organization” in Research handbook on the sociology of organizations., Mary Godwin Ed., Edward Elgar Publishing, chap. 2, pp. 30-53, 2022 |
| 2022 | Communications in an Academical or Professional conference | BERTHOD, O., A. ABRANTES, “A sensemaking perspective on team improvised adaptation: The improvisational arc” in INGroup Conference, 2022, Hamburg |
| 2022 | Communications in an Academical or Professional conference | BERTHOD, O., A. ABRANTES, “A sensemaking perspective on team improvised adaptation: The improvisational arc” in EURAM Conference, 2022, Winterthur/Zurich, Switzerland |
| 2021 | Journal article | BERTHOD, O., M. GROTHE-HAMMER, R. HAGEN, J. SYDOW, “Managing resource transposition in the face of extreme events: Fieldwork at two public networks in Germany and the U.S.”, Public Administration, March 2021, vol. 99, no. 1, pp. 171-188 |
| 2021 | Journal article | BERTHOD, O., M. HELFEN, C. WIRTH, “Organizational expulsion: How boundary work produces inequality in German airports”, Scandinavian Journal of Management, September 2021, vol. 37, issue 3, no. 101169 |
| 2021 | Book Chapter | BERTHOD, O., J. SYDOW, “Collaborating in high-reliability settings” in Handbook of Collaborative Public Management., Jack W. Meek Ed., Edward Elgar Publishing, chap. 21, pp. 331-348, 2021 |
| 2021 | Book Chapter | BERTHOD, O., “Fallstudie 18: Gefahrenalam! Lebensrettung durch Koordination” in Praxisf盲lle Public Management., Ritz, A., Blankart, C. R., Jacobs, C., Lienhard, A., Radulescu, D., Sager, F. Eds, Springer Gabler, pp. 179-187, 2021 |
| 2021 | Book Chapter | BERTHOD, O., “Zielgerichtete interorganisationale Netzwerke” in Praxisf盲lle Public Management., Ritz, A., Blankart, C. R., Jacobs, C., Lienhard, A., Radulescu, D., Sager, F. Eds, Springer Gabler, pp. 417-424, 2021 |
| 2021 | Proceedings from scientific conference | BERTHOD, O., M. GROTHE-HAMMER, “Distributing doubt: Sensemaking in high-reliability contexts” in 81st Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, Academy of Management (AOM), 2021, United States of America |
| 2021 | Communications in an Academical or Professional conference | GROTHE-HAMMER, M., H. BERKOWITZ, O. BERTHOD, “A theory of organization as decision” in XXXe Conf茅rence de l’AIMS, 2021, Annecy, France |
| 2020 | Journal article | DOUGLAS, S., O. BERTHOD, M. GROENLEER, J. NEDERHAND, “Pathways to collaborative performance: examining the different combinations of conditions under which collaborations are successful”, Policy & Society, July 2020, vol. 37, no. 4, pp. 638-658 |
| 2019 | Journal article | BERTHOD, O., F. SEGATO, “Developing purpose-oriented networks: A process view”, Perspectives on Public Management and Governance, September 2019, vol. 2, no. 3, pp. 203-212 |
| 2019 | Book Chapter | SYDOW, J., O. BERTHOD, “Management interorganisationaler Netzwerke 鈥� Auf dem Weg zu einer reflexiven Netzwerkentwicklung? Eine Aufgabe der F眉hrung in und zwischen Organisationen” in Polizeiliche Gefahrenabwehr und Sicherheitsproduktion durch Netzwerkgestaltung., C. Bartel Ed., Springer Gabler, pp. 45-65, 2019 |
| 2018 | Journal article | BERTHOD, O., “Operating at the edge: How firefighters harness networks and mitigate crises”, Journal of Business Strategy, May 2018, vol. 39, no. 3, pp. 34-39 |
| 2018 | Journal article | BERTHOD, O., G. M脺LLER-SEITZ, “Making sense in pitch darkness: An exploration of the sociomateriality of sensemaking in crises”, Journal of Management Inquiry, January 2018, vol. 27, no. 1, pp. 52-68 |
| 2018 | Book Chapter | BERTHOD, O., M. HELFEN, J. SYDOW, “Institutional work for value creation: Navigating amid power and persistence” in The SAGE Handbook of Service-Dominant Logic., S.L. Vargo, R.F. Lusch Eds, SAGE publications Inc., pp. 317-335, 2018 |
| 2018 | Book Chapter | BERTHOD, O., M. GROTHE-HAMMER, J. SYDOW, “Interorganizational ethnography: Promises and pitfalls” in Unconventional Methods in Organization and Management Research., David Buchanan and Alan Bryman Ed., Oxford University Press, 2018 |
| 2017 | Journal article | GROTHE-HAMMER, M., O. BERTHOD, “The programming of decisions for disaster and emergency response: A Luhmannian approach”, Current Sociology, September 2017, vol. 65, no. 5, pp. 735-755 |
| 2017 | Journal article | BERTHOD, O., M. GROTHE-HAMMER, G. M脺LLER-SEITZ, J. RAAB, J. SYDOW, “From high-reliability organizations to high-reliability networks: Dynamics of network governance in the face of emergency”, Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, April 2017, vol. 27, no. 2, pp. 352-371 |
| 2017 | Journal article | BERTHOD, O., M. GROTHE-HAMMER, J. SYDOW, “Network ethnography? A mixedmethods approach for the study of practices in interorganizational settings”, Organizational Research Methods, April 2017, vol. 20, no. 2, pp. 299-323 |
| 2017 | Proceedings from scientific conference | BERTHOD, O., J. SYDOW, M. GROTHE-HAMMER, R. HAGEN, “Does network design matter? How interorganizational networks balance mandated structures and situatedness in crisis situations” in Best Paper Award, European Group for Organizational Studies (EGOS), 2017 |
| 2016 | Book Chapter | BERTHOD, O., “Institutional theory of organizations” in Global Encyclopedia of Public Administration, Public Policy, and Governance., N. Lind, A. Farazmand Eds, Springer, 2016 |
| 2015 | Journal article | BERTHOD, O., M. GROTHE-HAMMER, J. SYDOW, “Some characteristics of high-reliability networks”, Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management, 2015, vol. 23, no. 1, pp. 24-28 |
| 2014 | Journal article | BERTHOD, O., G. M脺LLER-SEITZ, J. SYDOW, “Out of nowhere? Interorganizational assemblage as the answer to a foodborne disease outbreak”, Schmalenbach Business Review, 2014, vol. 66, no. 4, pp. 385-414 |
| 2013 | Book Chapter | BERTHOD, O., G. M脺LLER-SEITZ, J. SYDOW, “Interorganizational crisis management” in Handbuch Krisenmanagement., A. Thiessen Ed., Springer, pp. 139-152, 2013 |
| 2013 | Book Chapter | BERTHOD, O., “Challenging the imperative to build: The case of a controversial bridge at a World Heritage site” in Constructing Green 鈥� The Social Structures of Sustainability., R. Henn, A. Hoffman Eds, MIT Press, pp. 285-306, 2013 |
| 2013 | Book Chapter | BERTHOD, O., J. SYDOW, “Locked in the iron cage? When institutionalization is (not) a path-dependent process” in Self-Reinforcing Dynamics in and among Organizations., G. Schrey枚gg, J. Sydow Eds, Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 204-229, 2013 |
| 2012 | Journal article | BERTHOD, O., “脺ber Risiken hinaus? Interorganisationale Antworten auf Unsicherheit am Beispiel des EHEC-Ausbruchs 2011”, Zeitschrift F眉hrung + Organisation, 2012, vol. 81, no. 4, pp. 230-236 |