Aline GATIGNON

Associate Professor

Strategy and Business Policy

gatignon@hec.fr https://www.alinegatignon.com

Biography

Aline Gatignon is an Associate Professor of Strategy at HEC Paris. Prior to joining HEC, she was an Assistant Professor of Management at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Her research explores how organizations can build collaborative strategies to tackle grand societal challenges, with a particular focus on cross-sector partnerships in emerging markets. She studies how firms engage with non-market stakeholders—including nonprofits, governments, and communities—to foster inclusive and sustainable growth.

Aline’s work has been published in leading journals such as Strategic Management Journal and Organization Science, and has been recognized with several awards, including the Thinkers50 Radar Class of 2025 and the Emerging Sustainability Scholar Award from ARCS. She serves on the editorial boards of Strategic Management Journal and Organization Science and has held leadership roles within the Academy of Management and the Strategic Management Society.

Aline holds a Ph.D. and M.Sc. in Management from INSEAD, and a B.A. and M.Sc. from Sciences Po Paris. She is a dual citizen of France and the United States, and is fluent in English, French, Portuguese, and Spanish.

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Scientific articles

When few give to many and many give to few: Corporate social responsibility strategies under India's legal mandate

Strategic Management Journal, 2023, vol. 44, n° 9, pp 2099-2127, (in coll. with C. Bode)

The firm as an architect of polycentric governance: Building open institutional infrastructure in emerging markets

Strategic Management Journal, 2023, vol. 44, n° 1, pp 48-85, (in coll. with L. Capron)

The Returns to Nonmarket Strategies During Institutional Transitions: Investor Reactions to Actor and Tie Characteristics

Organization Science, March-April 2023, vol. 34, n° 2, pp 916-934, (in coll. with M. A. B. Gama, R. B. DeMello)

The double‐edged sword of boundary‐spanning Corporate Social Responsibility programs

Strategic Management Journal, 2022, vol. 43, n° 10, pp 2156-2184,

The relative value of firm and nonprofit experience: Tackling large‐scale social issues across institutional contexts

Strategic Management Journal, April 2019, vol. 40, n° 4, pp 631-657, (in coll. with L. Ballesteros)

Erin Anderson and the Path Breaking Work of TCE in New Areas of Business Research: Transaction Costs in Action

International Journal of Retailing, September 2010, vol. 86, n° 3, pp 232-247, (in coll. with H. Gatignon)

The Yogyakarta earthquake: Humanitarian relief through IFRC's decentralized supply chain

International Journal of Production Economics, July 2010, vol. 126, n° 1, pp 102-110, (in coll. with L. N. Van Wassenhove, A. Charles)

Chapters in edited books

Scaling up collaboration for social impact: the governance and design of corporate-nonprofit partnerships

Handbook On The Business Of Sustainability, Gerard George, Martine R. Haas, Havovi Joshi, Anita M. McGahan, Paul Tracey, Edward Elgar Publishing, 501-515

Proceedings

When Opposites Detract from Cross-Sector Collaboration: An Empirical Analysis of CSR Implementation

80th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management , 2020 , 2020 , 1 (C. Bode)

Working papers

Stakeholder Architecture under Resource Constraints: A Configurational Approach to Healthcare Provision in Sub-Saharan Africa

Cahier de Recherche , 2025

Case Studies

The Yogyakarta Earthquake: IFRC’s First Experiences with the Decentralized Supply Chain

2011

Safety in Numbers: Reducing Road Risk with Danida’s Multi-sector Partnership

2009

When the Music Changes, So Does the Dance…: The TNT/WFP Partnership, ‘Moving the World’ Five Years On

2009

Paving the Road to Healthy Highways: A Partnership to Scale Up HIV/AIDS Clinics in Africa

2008