Cabantous Laure | ESCP Business School

Laure Cabantous

Full Professor of Management and Organization Studies

Department : Work & Human Relations
Campus : Paris

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.

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15 publications

Academic Articles

2025

CABANTOUS, L., M. WENZEL, J. KOCH

Future making: Towards a practice perspective

JOURNAL OF MANAGEMENT STUDIES

ESCP Impact Papers

2025

CABANTOUS, L., N. MEZIANI

Les imaginaires de l’IA : Une déconstruction nécessaire à l’action managériale

ESCP Impact Papers, 2025-46-FR

ESCP Impact Papers

2025

CABANTOUS, L., N. MEZIANI

AI imaginaries: a critical lens for managerial action

ESCP Impact Papers, 2025-06-EN

Academic Articles

2023

LORTIE, J., L. CABANTOUS, C. SARDAIS

How Leadership Moments are Enacted within a Strict Hierarchy: The case of kitchen brigades in haute cuisine restaurants

ORGANIZATION STUDIES, 44, 7, 1081-1101

Academic Articles

2023

BALDACCHINO, L., D. UCBASARAN, L. CABANTOUS

Linking experience to intuition and cognitive versatility in new venture ideation: A dual-process perspective

JOURNAL OF MANAGEMENT STUDIES, 60 (5), 1105-1146

Academic Articles

2022

FEDUZI, A., P. FAULKNER, J. RUNDE, L. CABANTOUS, C. H. LOCH

Heuristic Methods for Updating Small World Representations in Strategic Situations of Knightian Uncertainty

ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT REVIEW (THE), 47, 3, 402-424

Academic Articles

2020

MEZIANI, N., L. CABANTOUS

Acting intuition into sense: How film crews make sense with embodied ways of knowing

JOURNAL OF MANAGEMENT STUDIES, 57,7, 1384-1419

Academic Articles

2020

TSANAKAS, A., L. CABANTOUS

Catastrophe Modeling and Metaphors in Financial Markets: A Reply to Etzion, Kypraios, and Forgues

ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT DISCOVERIES, 6, 717-720

Academic Articles

2018

CABANTOUS, L., J. -P. GOND, A. WRIGHT

The performativity of strategy: Taking stock and moving ahead

LONG RANGE PLANNING, 51, 3, 407-416

Academic Articles

2018

AVERSA, P., L. CABANTOUS, S. HAEFLIGER

When decision support systems fail: Insights for strategic information systems from Formula 1

THE JOURNAL OF STRATEGIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS, 27, 3, 221-236

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Academic Articles

2025

Future making: Towards a practice perspective

ESCP Impact Papers

2025

Les imaginaires de l’IA : Une déconstruction nécessaire à l’action managériale

ESCP Impact Papers

2025

AI imaginaries: a critical lens for managerial action

Academic Articles

2023

How Leadership Moments are Enacted within a Strict Hierarchy: The case of kitchen brigades in haute cuisine restaurants

Academic Articles

2023

Linking experience to intuition and cognitive versatility in new venture ideation: A dual-process perspective

Academic Articles

2022

Heuristic Methods for Updating Small World Representations in Strategic Situations of Knightian Uncertainty

Academic Articles

2020

Acting intuition into sense: How film crews make sense with embodied ways of knowing

Academic Articles

2020

Catastrophe Modeling and Metaphors in Financial Markets: A Reply to Etzion, Kypraios, and Forgues

Academic Articles

2018

The performativity of strategy: Taking stock and moving ahead

Academic Articles

2018

When decision support systems fail: Insights for strategic information systems from Formula 1

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