BERTHOD Olivier
Olivier Berthod is an associate professor in the Human Resources and Organizational Behavior Department. He is also a member of the CEREFIGE research laboratory at the University of Lorraine, and an adjunct professor of management and organization at the Constructor University Bremen, Germany. He holds Masters degrees in management from the Universities of Paris Dauphine and Linné in Växjö, Sweden, and received his Ph.D. from the Freie Universität Berlin, Germany. His research focuses on ways to improve organizational reliability and institutional decision-making in businesses, public sector and nonprofit organizations. His work has been the subject of awards (Best Paper in public management by the German Academic Association of Business Research in 2017, Best Paper of the EGOS Colloquium in 2016) and has appeared in leading outlets such as the Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, Journal of Management Inquiry, Public Management Review, Public Administration, and Organizational Research Methods.
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DiplĂ´mes et formations
Cours enseignés
IntĂŞrets de Recherche
Publications
CUNHA MENESES ABRANTES, A., O. BERTHOD, “The improvisational arc” in The Routledge Companion to Improvisation in Organizations., Miguel Pina e Cunha, Dusya Vera, AntĂłnio Cunha Meneses Abrantes, Anne Miner Eds, Routledge, pp. 95-114, 2023
BERTHOD, O., “Cross-sector collaborations for environmental and climate action: How much “organization” do they need to deliver?” in EGOS (European Group for Organizational Studies), 39th Colloquium, 2023, Cagliari, Italy
APELT, M., O. BERTHOD, C. BREUER – “Organisatorische Voraussetzungen der Notfallvorsorge fĂĽr KulturgĂĽter” – 2023, Leopoldina Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften, Halle, Germany
BERTHOD, O., T. BLANCHET, H. BUSCH, C. KUNZE, C. NOLDEN, M. WENDERLICH, “The rise and fall of energy democracy: 5 cases of collaborative governance in energy systems”, Environmental Management, March 2023, vol. 71, no. 3, pp. 551-564
BLANCHET, T., O. BERTHOD, C. HERZBERG, “Exploring user co-regulation of public services: insights from the Grenoble water user committee”, Public Management Review, July 2023, vol. 25, no. 7, pp. 1408-1426
GROTHE-HAMMER, M., H. BERKOWITZ, O. BERTHOD, “Decisional organization theory: towards an integrated framework of organization” in Research handbook on the sociology of organizations., Mary Godwin Ed., Edward Elgar Publishing, chap. 2, pp. 30-53, 2022
BERTHOD, O., A. ABRANTES, “A sensemaking perspective on team improvised adaptation: The improvisational arc” in EURAM Conference, 2022, Winterthur/Zurich, Switzerland
BERTHOD, O., A. ABRANTES, “A sensemaking perspective on team improvised adaptation: The improvisational arc” in INGroup Conference, 2022, Hamburg
BERTHOD, O., “Fallstudie 18: Gefahrenalam! Lebensrettung durch Koordination” in Praxisfälle Public Management., Ritz, A., Blankart, C. R., Jacobs, C., Lienhard, A., Radulescu, D., Sager, F. Eds, Springer Gabler, pp. 179-187, 2021
BERTHOD, O., “Zielgerichtete interorganisationale Netzwerke” in Praxisfälle Public Management., Ritz, A., Blankart, C. R., Jacobs, C., Lienhard, A., Radulescu, D., Sager, F. Eds, Springer Gabler, pp. 417-424, 2021
BERTHOD, O., J. SYDOW, “Collaborating in high-reliability settings” in Handbook of Collaborative Public Management., Jack W. Meek Ed., Edward Elgar Publishing, chap. 21, pp. 331-348, 2021
GROTHE-HAMMER, M., H. BERKOWITZ, O. BERTHOD, “A theory of organization as decision” in XXXe ConfĂ©rence de l’AIMS, 2021, Annecy, France
BERTHOD, O., M. GROTHE-HAMMER, R. HAGEN, J. SYDOW, “Managing resource transposition in the face of extreme events: Fieldwork at two public networks in Germany and the U.S.”, Public Administration, March 2021, vol. 99, no. 1, pp. 171-188
BERTHOD, O., M. HELFEN, C. WIRTH, “Organizational expulsion: How boundary work produces inequality in German airports”, Scandinavian Journal of Management, September 2021, vol. 37, issue 3, no. 101169
BERTHOD, O., M. GROTHE-HAMMER, “Distributing doubt: Sensemaking in high-reliability contexts” in 81st Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, Academy of Management (AOM), 2021, United States of America
DOUGLAS, S., O. BERTHOD, M. GROENLEER, J. NEDERHAND, “Pathways to collaborative performance: examining the different combinations of conditions under which collaborations are successful”, Policy & Society, July 2020, vol. 37, no. 4, pp. 638-658
SYDOW, J., O. BERTHOD, “Management interorganisationaler Netzwerke – Auf dem Weg zu einer reflexiven Netzwerkentwicklung? Eine Aufgabe der FĂĽhrung in und zwischen Organisationen” in Polizeiliche Gefahrenabwehr und Sicherheitsproduktion durch Netzwerkgestaltung., C. Bartel Ed., Springer Gabler, pp. 45-65, 2019
BERTHOD, O., F. SEGATO, “Developing purpose-oriented networks: A process view”, Perspectives on Public Management and Governance, September 2019, vol. 2, no. 3, pp. 203-212
BERTHOD, O., M. GROTHE-HAMMER, J. SYDOW, “Interorganizational ethnography: Promises and pitfalls” in Unconventional Methods in Organization and Management Research., David Buchanan and Alan Bryman Ed., Oxford University Press, 2018
BERTHOD, O., M. HELFEN, J. SYDOW, “Institutional work for value creation: Navigating amid power and persistence” in The SAGE Handbook of Service-Dominant Logic., S.L. Vargo, R.F. Lusch Eds, SAGE publications Inc., pp. 317-335, 2018
BERTHOD, O., “Operating at the edge: How firefighters harness networks and mitigate crises”, Journal of Business Strategy, May 2018, vol. 39, no. 3, pp. 34-39
BERTHOD, O., G. MĂśLLER-SEITZ, “Making sense in pitch darkness: An exploration of the sociomateriality of sensemaking in crises”, Journal of Management Inquiry, January 2018, vol. 27, no. 1, pp. 52-68
BERTHOD, O., M. GROTHE-HAMMER, G. MĂśLLER-SEITZ, J. RAAB, J. SYDOW, “From high-reliability organizations to high-reliability networks: Dynamics of network governance in the face of emergency”, Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, April 2017, vol. 27, no. 2, pp. 352-371
BERTHOD, O., M. GROTHE-HAMMER, J. SYDOW, “Network ethnography? A mixedmethods approach for the study of practices in interorganizational settings”, Organizational Research Methods, April 2017, vol. 20, no. 2, pp. 299-323
GROTHE-HAMMER, M., O. BERTHOD, “The programming of decisions for disaster and emergency response: A Luhmannian approach”, Current Sociology, September 2017, vol. 65, no. 5, pp. 735-755
BERTHOD, O., J. SYDOW, M. GROTHE-HAMMER, R. HAGEN, “Does network design matter? How interorganizational networks balance mandated structures and situatedness in crisis situations” in Best Paper Award, European Group for Organizational Studies (EGOS), 2017
BERTHOD, O., “Institutional theory of organizations” in Global Encyclopedia of Public Administration, Public Policy, and Governance., N. Lind, A. Farazmand Eds, Springer, 2016
BERTHOD, O., M. GROTHE-HAMMER, J. SYDOW, “Some characteristics of high-reliability networks”, Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management, 2015, vol. 23, no. 1, pp. 24-28
BERTHOD, O., G. MĂśLLER-SEITZ, J. SYDOW, “Out of nowhere? Interorganizational assemblage as the answer to a foodborne disease outbreak”, Schmalenbach Business Review, 2014, vol. 66, no. 4, pp. 385-414
BERTHOD, O., “Challenging the imperative to build: The case of a controversial bridge at a World Heritage site” in Constructing Green – The Social Structures of Sustainability., R. Henn, A. Hoffman Eds, MIT Press, pp. 285-306, 2013
BERTHOD, O., G. MĂśLLER-SEITZ, J. SYDOW, “Interorganizational crisis management” in Handbuch Krisenmanagement., A. Thiessen Ed., Springer, pp. 139-152, 2013
BERTHOD, O., J. SYDOW, “Locked in the iron cage? When institutionalization is (not) a path-dependent process” in Self-Reinforcing Dynamics in and among Organizations., G. Schreyögg, J. Sydow Eds, Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 204-229, 2013
BERTHOD, O., “Ăśber Risiken hinaus? Interorganisationale Antworten auf Unsicherheit am Beispiel des EHEC-Ausbruchs 2011”, Zeitschrift FĂĽhrung + Organisation, 2012, vol. 81, no. 4, pp. 230-236