Ludovic Cailluet

Professor, Associate Dean

EDHEC Centre for Responsible Entrepreneurship Director, Family Business Chair Research Associate, Global Economic Transformation & Technology (GETT) Track Director

Main contributions

Entreprises et Histoire (2023); Harvard Business Review France (2023); Historical Social Research (2019), Organization Studies (2018), Long Range Planning (2008 ; 2015 ; 2016 ; 2017), British Journal of Management (2011), Business History Review (2010), Business and Economic History (2010), Revue Française de Gestion (2008 ; 2019), Accounting, Business and Finance History (1997 ; 2001), Entreprises et Histoire (1996 ; 2000 ; 2018), European Yearbook of Business History (1999).

Discipline: Strategy
Faculty: Strategy, Entrepreneurship & Operations
Expertise: strategy, business history, entrepreneurship

Bio

Ludovic Cailluet, PhD, is Professor of Strategy and Business History at Edhec Business School. He started his academic career as a lecturer in international management at the University of Reading and later joined the School of Management of Toulouse University. He became a full Professor at the University of the Littoral in 2011. Ludovic Cailluet holds a Doctorate in Economic History from the University of Lyon and the Habilitation in management science from Toulouse University. He was awarded the best dissertation award of the European Business History Association in 1996. He has been the Louis Vuitton Japan Visiting Professor at Keio University in Tokyo and an Alfred D. Chandler Jr. Visiting Scholar in Business History at Harvard Business School. He was also more recently invited as a visiting researcher at Copenhagen Business School. Ludovic is actively associated with international academic organizations. He has served as representative at large for the Strategic Management Society and as President of the European Business History Association. He has researched and published on a variety of sectors including automotive, consulting, pharmaceuticals and cosmetics and has done research work with Pechiney (Rio-Tinto Alcan), SGL Carbon and Laboratoires Pierre Fabre. His central research interest has been the formation and dissemination of strategy practices and business history especially the emergence of new sectors. He currently works on the strategic uses of the past by organizations particularly family firms.

Publications of Ludovic Cailluet

29.08.2025 - Article in a peer reviewed journal

Whose History Is It Anyway? Uses and Abuses in the Co-Construction of Organizational Narratives

Regany Fatima, Hélène Gorge, Ludovic Cailluet
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Journal of Business Ethics, August 2025


15.07.2025 - EDHEC publication

Le modèle spécifiquement européen d'entrepreneuriat responsable peut être une réponse à de nombreux enjeux économiques et sociétaux"

Ludovic Cailluet
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EDHEC Centre for Responsible Entrepreneurship, EDHEC VOX, July 2025


23.04.2025 - EDHEC publication

(Newsletter Vox #16) Surprising research... really?

Lionel Martellini, Aziza Laguecir, Bryant Ashley Hudson, David Dalmasso, Bombrault Martial, Ludovic Cailluet, Cédric Verbeeck, Bertrand Monnet, Hager Jemel-Fornetty
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EDHEC VOX, April 2025


16.04.2025 - EDHEC publication

5 questions to Ludovic Cailluet about his research on the history of businesses

Ludovic Cailluet
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EDHEC Centre for Responsible Entrepreneurship, EDHEC VOX, April 2025


28.01.2025 - EDHEC publication

Dépasser le concept de RSE, une nécessité

Ludovic Cailluet, Rene Rohrbeck
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EDHEC Centre for Responsible Entrepreneurship, EDHEC VOX, January 2025