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). With 3 colleagues (P. Mioche, P. Raggi and I.Kharaba), He has edited a Dictionnary of the History of French Steel Industry published in 2022 by the Presses Universitaires de Provence. The book contains 280 entries written by nearly 120 French and Foreign authors.

In 2016, he was elected President of the French Business History Association, and reelected in 2021.

In 2023, he was elected at the board of the EBHA (European Business History Association)

He chaired the steering comittee of the PARIS 2019 congress on business History, and of the 2023 Paris Congress. Another congress is due to take place in Paris in june 2026.

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