Skip to main content
Home
The Business History Conference
Main navigation
  • About
    • Mission & History
    • Governance and Bylaws
    • Contact Us
  • Meetings
    • All Annual Meetings
    • Upcoming Meeting
    • Midyear Meetings
    • Doctoral Colloquium
    • Emerging Scholars
    • Workshops
  • Prizes and Grants
    • Prizes & Grants
    • Prize Committees
    • Prize Recipients
  • News
    • H-BUSINESS
    • The Exchange Blog Archive
    • The Exchange Newsletter and Social Media
  • Resources
    • Calendar
    • Enterprise & Society
    • BEH Online
    • Expertise Database
    • Interest Groups
    • Teaching and Research Resources
    • Book series with BHC authors
    • Business history around the world
    • Twitterdex
Anonymous Login Menu

Eric Godelier

Professor of Management, Corporate History and Business Anthropology, Ecole Polytechnique, Humanities and Social Sciences department, Ecole Polytechnique , Interdisciplinary research Center on Humanities and Social Sciences, Ecole
Twitter
Corporate culture, Managerial Elites, General Business History
Business Historians at Business Schools

 

Eric Godelier is professor at the École Polytechnique (a French school of Engineer specialised in science and engineering), in charge of developing and coordinating management and business history courses. He was dean  of the Humanities and Social Sciences department (2004-2017). He graduated from the École Normale Supérieure de Cachan, having specialized in economics and management studies. He obtained a Ph.D degree in History at EHESS, with a dissertation studying the French steel corporation Usinor (1948-1986), and is a member of the editorial committee of Entreprises et Histoire. In the École Polytechnique’s research center on Social Sciences, LinX (Laboratoire interdisciplinaire en Sciences sociales de l'X), he researches the conception and diffusion processes of management tools and models from an historical and anthropological perspective. In 2006 he published two books : Usinor-Arcelor. Du local au Global, the history of the largest French steel corporation from 1948 to 2004, and La culture d’entreprise (Corporate Culture). Since early 2006, he has been coordinating a four-year international program on French management tools and models (18th-20th centuries). In 2011, at the end of this research program, the first on line book in French Business History was published with 42 contributions (http://mtpf.mlab-innovation.net/fr/). In 2013, he published an article on « Corporate culture from an Historical Perspective » in a book on History and management sciences, Paris, Vuibert, edited by L. Cailluet, Y. Lemarchand and M.-E. Chessel. In 2016, he was elected President of the French Business History Association.

Since 2017, He is the president of the steering comittee for the PARIS 2019 congress on business History

- Website : https://businesshistory.sciencesconf.org/

- Facebook : www.facebook.com/Businesshistoryparis19-523768618087014/  

- Twitter : https://twitter.com/BusinessHist19

Recent Presentations at BHC Annual Meetings
Service to the BHC
Board of Trustees 2020 - 2023
Electronic Media Oversight Committee 2020 - 2022 [Chair 2021 - 2022]
Wilkins Prize Committee 2016 - 2019 [Chair 2017 - 2018]
Web Editor, Books of Interest 2015 - 2018
Kerr Prize Committee 2009 - 2011

Copyright © The Business History Conference

Affiliated with: The AHA || H-NET || IEHA

Facebook LinkedIn Blue Sky Twitter YouTube BHC Channel