Portrait of Dr Arnaud Cudennec

Dr Arnaud Cudennec

Lecturer in Strategy

Bayes Business School , Faculty of Management

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Overview

Dr. Arnaud Cudennec is a social scientist who holds the position of lecturer in strategy at Bayes Business School, City St George's, University of London. Through sociological lenses, he investigates categorization processes and evaluation dynamics in innovative domains such as entrepreneurship (venture capital) and cultural markets (film, publishing...). His research methods involve controlled experiments, large-scale quantitative data analysis, and natural language processing (NLP).

His research has been published in highly reputed academic journals in organization studies and sociology (Academy of Management Journal (Poetics, Research in the Sociology of Organizations, Governance).

In 2022, he was listed as one of the Best 50 Undergraduate Business Professors by Poets & Quants.

He obtained a Ph.D. in management sciences from HEC Paris and holds masters’ degrees in philosophy, sociology, organization studies and business administration. During his doctoral studies, he visited Kellogg at Northwestern University (USA). Before joining Bayes, he served as an assistant professor in management at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University.

Qualifications

  • Ph.D. in Management Sciences (Strategy & Business Policy), HEC Paris, France
  • M.Phil. & B.A. in Philosophy, University of Paris-Nanterre, France
  • M.Phil. in Sociology, University of Paris-Sorbonne, France
  • M.Phil. in Organization Studies, University of Lyon-Jean Moulin, France
  • M.Sc. in Management, EM Lyon, France
  • "Classes Préparatoires", Undergraduate curriculum in Economics and Liberal Arts, Carnot Dijon, France

Employment

  • Lecturer, Bayes Business School, United Kingdom, September 2023 - present
  • Assistant Professor, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, July 2020 - August 2023
  • Visiting Scholar, Northwestern University, United States, January - June 2019

Awards

  • Poets & Quants (2022). Best 50 Undergraduate Business Professors
  • Academy of Management, OMT (Organization & Management Theory) division (2018). Best Student Paper Award Finalist
  • Academy of Management, OMT (Organization & Management Theory) division (2018). ABCD Award for Excellence in Scholarly Reviews

Languages

English, French and Spanish; Castilian

Publications

Chapter

  1. Boulongne, R., Cudennec, A. and Durand, R. (2019). When Do Market Intermediaries Sanction Categorical Deviation? The Role of Expertise, Identity, and Competition. Microfoundations of Institutions (pp. 67-83). Emerald Publishing Limited. ISBN 9781787691247.

Journal articles (3)

  1. Xiao, M., Zhan, X. and Cudennec, A. (2025). Coping With Competing Institutional Logics in Policy Implementation. Governance, 38(3). doi:10.1111/gove.70036

    [publisher’s website]

  2. Cudennec, A. and Huynh, C.-.W. (2023). In the mood for odd? The role of affective factors in the evaluation of categorical atypicality. Poetics, 101, pp. 101838-101838. doi:10.1016/j.poetic.2023.101838

    [publisher’s website]

  3. Cudennec, A. and Durand, R. (2023). Valuing Spanners: Why Category Nesting and Expertise Matter. Academy of Management Journal, 66(1), pp. 335-365. doi:10.5465/amj.2020.0042

    [publisher’s website]