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Meet the Editorial Team
Pauline Alessandra
Lecturer at École Polytechnique, Paris. Former Chief of Staff to the CEO of Air France and management consultant, she holds a PhD from the University of Montpellier. Her research examines legitimacy maintenance strategies in contested organizations, with a focus on the air transport industry and flight shaming movements.
Sara Fontanet
PhD Student in Management at the University of St.Gallen. Her research lies at the intersection of management and moral philosophy. In her dissertation, she explores how organizational change agents utilize Aristotelian rhetoric to inspire bottom-up change and legitimize more human-centered business paradigms. One of her studies examines in depth how rhetoric influences the formation of individual legitimacy perceptions and judgments.
Patrick Haack
Professor of Strategy and Organization at HEC Lausanne. His research focuses on the conceptual and empirical study of legitimacy, a crucial antecedent of social and institutional change. In this context, he examines the dynamics of legitimacy in the areas of tax avoidance, anti-corruption, and responsible business.
Lionel Loiseau
DBA Student at the Business Science Institute and iaelyon School of Management, he has 40 years of professional experience across operational, managerial, and expert roles. Trained as a computer science engineer, he has also studied philosophy. His doctoral research examines how coaches construct professional legitimacy and, in particular, how practitioners seek, negotiate, and sustain legitimacy in a weakly institutionalized professional field. .