Frederic Godart

Frédéric Godart is an Associate Professor (with tenure) of Organizational Behavior at INSEAD.

He received his PhD from Columbia University in the City of New York. He also holds an MPhil in Social and Political Sciences from the University of Cambridge (Trinity College) in the United Kingdom, an MSc in Management from Sciences Po Paris, and was a fellow of the École Normale Supérieure in France.

His research explores creative industries (e.g., arts, fashion design, footwear, modeling, watchmaking). He covers the impact of formal and informal social networks on creativity, as well as the role played by stylistic choices and brand dynamics in the formation of firms and customers’ identities. He has received several prestigious awards such as the Academy of Management Organizational Behavior Division’s 2012 Best Paper Award and the Academy of Management Conflict Management Division’s 2017 Best Paper Award – New Directions.

Between 2018 and 2020, he was the Academic Director of the HEC Paris luxury certificate, sponsored by Kering (owner of Gucci, Saint Laurent...)

Since 2022, he is the co-editor-in chief of Poetics: Journal of Empirical Research on Culture, the Media and the Arts.

He has published his research in a wide range of leading academic peer reviewed journals such as Organization Science, the Academy of Management Journal, the Strategic Management Journal, Harvard Business Review, the Annual Review of Sociology, and Social Forces, and in several edited books. He is the author of "Unveiling Fashion: Business, Culture, and Identity in the Most Glamorous Industry" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2012) and (with Jacques Neatby) of "Leadership Team Alignment: From Conflict to Collaboration" (Stanford University Press, 2023).