Charles-Clemens Rüling is a Senior Professor of Organization and Management Theory at Grenoble Ecole de Management since 2002. He is interested in field-level dynamics, institutional change, collective cognition, and identity.
His research adopts longitudinal and process approaches to address micro-foundations of field-level change and maintenance. He has conducted studies in a variety of sectors including health care, cultural industries, and transnational policy. He has published more than 30 articles in academic journals such as Academy of Management Journal, Organization Studies, Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, and Research Policy.
He has also served as an Associate Editor of the journal Long Range Planning.
Charles-Clemens Rüling holds Master degrees in economic sciences from the University of St. Gallen and in sociology from the University of Geneva, and he earned his PhD in social and economic sciences from the University of Geneva in 2001. In 2013, he received a Habilitation à diriger des recherches in management sciences from Université Savoie Mont Blanc.
Expertise
- Organizational Fields
- Institutional Change
- Collective Cognition
- Professional Identity
- Institutional Change
- Collective trust
- Diffusion of Administrative Innovations
- Field configuring events
- Organizational Practices
- Qualitative Data analysis - PhD - Depuis 2012
- Research Design - PhD - Depuis 2016
- Management et Leadership - Master - Depuis 2002
- Introduction to Management - Master - Depuis 2009
- Leadership and Responsible Management - Master - Depuis 2009
- Majdalani M., Stadtler L., Rüling C.-C., 2026.Expanding From North-South to South-South: The Evolution of a Twinning Relationship in Global HealthNonProfit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, 55, 1: 255-276
- Silva R. C., Duymedjian R., Rüling C.-C., zejnilovic L. L., 2024.Generative AI tools as radically-black boxes: challenges to organizational knowledge40th EGOS Colloquium 2024, EGOS, Milan, Italy
- Rüling C.-C., 2023.Consentement aux soins : Enjeux et attentesSantExpo
- Rüling C.-C., 2023.Promoting institutionally misaligned innovations: The case of open-label placebosMidi Minatec
- Rüling C.-C., 2023.Management : le chercheur n’est pas un salarié comme un autreLe Monde: Online
- Rüling C.-C., 2023.Open-label placebos: Harnessing the placebo effect without the deceptionGiant Review, Fall 2023: 22-23
- Gandia R., Rüling C.-C., 2022.Failing to configure? The life and death of Forum BlancIn Trade shows in the 21st century: The role of events in structuring careers and professions. Edward Elgar Publishing Ed. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar PublishingRecent literature has highlighted the role of recurrent events in shaping emerging organizational fields. However, the focus in recent work on successful field configuration overlooks the frequent failure of events to configure nascent fields. This chapter studies field configuration failure based on a ten-year longitudinal case study of Forum Blanc, an annual professional event set up in 2009 to address the challenges of digital technology and audiovisual content creation. We analyse the evolution of Forum Blanc over time and discuss the role of participation, identity boundaries and category dynamics in the event’s inability to produce institutional innovation and change.
- Bensouna I., Rüling C.-C., 2022.Impediments to identity formation in temporary organizations: Lessons from ConstructOne38th EGOS Colloquium, EGOS, Vienna, Austria
- Rüling C.-C., 2021.Le Grand MatinSud RadioInterview portant sur la mise en place de la campagne de vaccination Covid-19 et la confiance des Français en les mesures du gouvernement.
- Rüling C.-C., 2021.Wie können wir Bricolage und frugale Innovation in der Innovationsforschung mitdenken?ExperimentierMahlZeit