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About
Overview
Dr. Arnaud Cudennec is a social scientist who holds the position of lecturer in strategy at Bayes Business School, City, University of London. Employing a sociological approach, he investigates how categorization processes impact evaluation dynamics in creative domains such as entrepreneurship (venture capital) and cultural markets (movies and books). His research typically involves the utilization of controlled experiments, large-scale quantitative data analysis, and the application of natural language processing (NLP) techniques to examine these questions.
His research has been published in reputable academic reviews in organization studies (Academy of Management Journal) and in sociology (Poetics, Research in the Sociology of Organizations).
In 2022, he was listed as one of the Best 50 Undergraduate Business Professors by Poets & Quants.
He obtained a Ph.D. in management sciences from HEC Paris and holds masters’ degrees in philosophy, sociology, organization studies and business administration. During his doctoral studies, he visited Kellogg at Northwestern University (USA). Before joining Bayes, he served as an assistant professor in management at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University.
Qualifications
- Ph.D. in Management Sciences (Strategy & Business Policy), HEC Paris, France
- M.Phil. & B.A. in Philosophy, University of Paris-Nanterre, France
- M.Phil. in Sociology, University of Paris-Sorbonne, France
- M.Phil. in Organization Studies, University of Lyon-Jean Moulin, France
- M.Sc. in Management, EM Lyon, France
- "Classes Préparatoires", Undergraduate curriculum in Economics and Humanities, Carnot Dijon, France
Employment
- Lecturer, Bayes Business School, Sep 2023 – present
- Assistant Professor, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Jul 2020 – Aug 2023
- Visiting Scholar, Northwestern University, Jan – Jun 2019
Awards
- Poets & Quants (2022) Best 50 Undergraduate Business Professors
- Academy of Management, OMT (Organization & Management Theory) division (2018) Best Student Paper Award Finalist
- Academy of Management, OMT (Organization & Management Theory) division (2018) ABCD Award for Excellence in Scholarly Reviews
Languages
English, French and Spanish; Castilian.
Publications
Chapter
- Boulongne, R., Cudennec, A. and Durand, R. (2019). When Do Market Intermediaries Sanction Categorical Deviation? The Role of Expertise, Identity, and Competition. Research in the Sociology of Organizations (pp. 67–83). Emerald Publishing Limited. ISBN 978-1-78769-124-7.
Journal articles (2)
- Cudennec, A. and Huynh, C.-.W. (2023). In the mood for odd? The role of affective factors in the evaluation of categorical atypicality. Poetics, 101, pp. 101838–101838. doi:10.1016/j.poetic.2023.101838.
- Cudennec, A. and Durand, R. (2023). Valuing Spanners: Why Category Nesting and Expertise Matter. Academy of Management Journal, 66(1), pp. 335–365. doi:10.5465/amj.2020.0042.