Francoise CHEVALIER

Françoise Chevalier holds a PhD from HEC and the French “HDR” qualification as a supervisor of doctoral research. She is an associate professor in the Management and Human Resources department at HEC Paris. Françoise teaches Mastère, Doctorate and Executive Education courses. Academic Director of the Change & Sustainability HEC Executive Education Master. She has been a visiting scholar at the University of California, Berkeley.

Her research concerns Managerial Innovation and Organizational Change, Leadership and Human Resources Management, Creativity and Pedagogy.

Françoise was President of the panel awarding the FNEGE (Fondation Nationale pour l’Enseignement de la Gestion) prizes for the best doctoral dissertations in 2019 and 2020. She specializes in qualitative, comparative and longitudinal research methods, and several of the HEC PhD dissertations supervised by Françoise have won national and international prizes.

Her most recent publications include:

Chevalier, Guillet, Poilpot-Rocaboy et Valax (eds) (2024) Développement durable et ressources humaines : 15 études de cas., EMS, 175 p.

Chevalier et Fournier (dir) (2024) Pratiques pédagogiques innovantes – Construire la pédagogie de demain, EMS, 377 p.

Chevalier, Coron, Gaillard, Oiry (dir) (2024) Les Grands auteurs en Gestion des Ressources Humaines, EMS, 562 p. 

Park, Choi, Chevalier (2023) The Practice of ESG Management, Hanol, Séoul, South Korea, 280 p.

Chevalier, Kalika (dir) (2023) Research in Sustainability, EMS, 508 p.

Chevalier, Kalika (dir) (2023) Recherches sur la Sustainability, EMS, 545 p.

Pichault, Castro, Chevalier (2022) Towards a Polyphonic Approach to Change Management, Cambridge Scholars Publishing Limited, 254 p.

Chevalier, Cloutier, Mitev (dir) (2022) Qualitative Research : Voices in Management Sciences (EMS), 298 p.

Chevalier, Cloutier, Mitev (dir) (2022) La recherche qualitative : Témoignages dans les sciences de gestion (EMS), 300 p.

Pichault, Castro, Chevalier (2021) Gestion du changement : vers un management polyphonique (De Boeck Supérieur), 224 p.

Kamdem, Chevalier, Payaud (dir) (2020) La recherche enracinée en management : contextes nouveaux et perspectives nouvelles en Afrique (EMS), 422 p.

Chevalier, Cloutier, Mitev (dir) (2019) Research methods for the DBA (EMS), 564 p.

Chevalier, Cloutier, Mitev (dir) (2018) Les méthodes de recherche du DBA (EMS). 513 p.

Chevalier (dir) (2018) Des PME aux ETI - Réussir la croissance. Questions de dirigeants et réponses pratiques (De Boeck Supérieur), 2nd edition, 332 p.

Alis, Besseyre des Horts, Chevalier, Fabi, Peretti (2016) Gestao dos recursos humanos uma abordagem internacional (Editions Piaget), 965 p.

Chevalier F. (dir) (2014) Des PME aux ETI: les entreprises en croissance, questions des dirigeants et réponses pratiques, De Boeck Supérieur, 1ère édition, 256 p.

Alis, Besseyre des Horts, Chevalier, Fabi, Peretti (2011) La GRH une approche internationale (De Boeck Supérieur), 912 p.

Chevalier (dir) (2010) Pratiques de GRH dans les pays francophones- 48 études de cas (Vuibert) ,447 p.

Françoise is a member of the editorial board of Gérer et Comprendre, and writes for both academic and professional journals.

She regularly teaches and lectures outside France (China, Vietnam, Lebanon, Iran, Morocco, Ivory Coast, Senegal...)

Colleagues and students dedicated a book to her in 2023 entitled L’Humaniste passionnée par le terrain, Hommage au professeur Françoise Chevalier, EMS, 348 p.