Laure Cabantous is Professor of Management and Organization Studies at ESCP Business School, Paris, France. Prior to this, she was a Professor of Strategy and Organization Studies at Bayes Business School, in London.
Laure's research explores the connections between management practices (such as decision making and leadership), management consultants, and management theories from a performative and post-humanist perspective. In other words, she explores how theories shape organizational practices and vice versa.
Generally, Laure is interested in the 'practice' perspective (e.g., Strategy-as-practice, Leadership-as-practice, Entrepreneurship-as-practice). She uses this perspective to study leadership; how organisational actors or entrepreneurs deal with uncertainty; how they make decisions (and in particular the role of intuition and imagination in decision-making); how AI is redefining the way decisions are made. She also studies organisational practices aimed at shaping - or 'performing' – (desirable) futures.
Her research has been published in a number of leading journals, including Organization Science, Organization Studies, Human Relations, Organization, the Journal of Management, and the Academy of Management Review.
Laure is Senior Editor at Organization Studies – one of the leading journals in the field of organizational studies and one of the Financial Times’ Top 50 (FT50) journals. She is a former Editor-in-Chief of Management (an open access academic journal). She is also a member of the editorial board of several journals, including Organization Theory, Strategic Organization, etc.
Laure is a graduate of Ecole Normale Superieure (ENS Paris-Saclay) (Economics) and holds a PhD in Economics from the Toulouse School of Economics.