Jean-François Coget is an Assistant Professor of Management at the Orfalea College of Business at CalPoly, San Luis Obispo, where he teaches Organizational Behavior and Business Consulting classes. He earned his Ph.D. from the Anderson School at UCLA, and was previously a faculty member at HEC Paris. His research interests include emotions in organizations, intuitive decision-making, and charismatic leadership. His overarching professional goal is to contribute to the creation and the dissemination of actionable knowledge and practices that can help managers-citizens to organize a productive, creative, ethical, and sustainable cooperation among people.
Articles
Anger and fear in decision-making: The case of film directors on set (with Christopher Haag and Donald E. Gibson), European Management Journal (2011)
Anger and fear are frequently felt and impactful workplace emotions, especially in times of crisis...
The Critical Decision Vortex: Lessons From the Emergency Room (with Eugene Keller), Journal of Management Inquiry (2010)
The dominant model of decision making, rational decision making, is increasingly challenged by research on...
Leading Creative People: Lessons From Advertising Guru Jacques Séguéla (with Christophe Haag), European Management Journal (2010)
In this article, we explore perspectives on how to lead creative people through examples from...
Dialogical Inquiry: An Extension of Schein's Clinical Inquiry, Journal of Applied Behavioral Science (2009)
this article introduces dialogical inquiry, an extension of clinical inquiry. Following clinical inquiry’s main principles,...
Designing for Agility as an Organizational Capability: Learning from a Software Development Firm (with James Sena and A.B. (Rami) Shani), The International Journal of Knowledge, Culture and Change Management. (2009)
The purpose of this paper is to investigate the nature of agility in an organizational...
Contributions to Books
Long-Term Insider Action Research: Three Decades of Work at Kaiser Permanente (with Michael W. Stebbins and Judy L. Valenzuela), Research in Organizational Change and Development (2009)
Since 1973, the pharmacy operations division of the Kaiser Permanente Medical Care Program (KPMCP) has...