Process & Practice Research: I have a tendency to look at what people do in organizations and beyond and how those practices interact, form patterns, and evolve over time.
Wicked Problems: Resolving problems that reach beyond our habitual scope and challenge our individual and collective capabilities fascinates me. I'm interested in investigating how groups attempt to address
and make progress on these "hard to grasp" challenges.
Working Papers & Publications
Lê, J.K., & Couture, F. (Submission). Protecting ‘Monsters’: How Complicity Eco-Systems Facilitate Wrongdoing in Organizations. Journal of Management Studies
Couture, F., Jarzabkowski, P., & Lê, J.K. (Submission). Is Legitimacy Always Benign; Exploring the Consequentiality of Legitimation when Tackling Grand Challenges. Academy of Management Journal
Cloutier C., & Couture F. (Working Paper). Unpacking the Dynamics of Field Governance: The Role of Voluntary Self-Regulatory Agreements.
Cloutier C., & Couture F. (2017). Growing Pains at Santropol Roulant (A) (B) (C). The International Journal of Case Studies in Management, 15(3).
Conference Presentations
Couture, F., & Oliver D. (2021). Get me off this Gravitron! Assessing the Role of Field Configuring Events in Grand Challenge Hot Spots. 37th European Group for Organizational Studies (EGOS) Colloquium; European Group for Organizational Studies (EGOS), Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Couture, F., Jarzabkowski, P., & Lê, J.K. (2021). Is Legitimacy Always Benign; Exploring the Consequentiality of Legitimation when Tackling Grand Challenges. 81st Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management; Academy of Management, Virtual
Couture, F., & Lê, J. (2019). ‘B’ the Change you Want to See; Exploring the Role of Commensuration Work when Strategizing for a Grand Challenge. 80th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management; Academy of Management, Virtual
Lê, J., & Couture, F. (2019). Protecting ‘Monsters’: How Complicity Eco-Systems Facilitate the Performing of Wrongdoing in Organizations. 79th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management; Academy of Management, Boston, USA
Couture, F., & Lê, J. (2019). Commensurating Grand Challenges; The Case of Multi-Sector Strategizing for River Health. 79th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management; Academy of Management, Boston, USA
Couture, F., Jarzabkowski, P. & Lê, J. (2019). ‘B’ the Change you Want to See; Can Commensuration Help in Addressing Grand Challenges? 35th European Group for Organizational Studies (EGOS) Colloquium; European Group for Organizational Studies (EGOS), Edinburgh, UK
Couture F., & Lê J. (2018). Dealing with Meta Problems through Commensuration: The Case of Multi-Sectoral Strategizing. Paper presented at the 34th European Group for Organizational Studies (EGOS), Tallinn, Estonia
Cloutier C., & Couture F. (2018). The Architecture of Soft Influence: Meta-Organizations and the Transformation of Institutional Fields. Strategy as Practice Division. Paper presented at the 78th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, Chicago, USA
Cloutier C., & Couture F. (2017). Social-Symbolic Work of Meta-Organizations and the Transformation of Institutional Fields. Sub-Theme Paper presented at the 9th International Process Symposium (PROS), Kos, Greece