Camille Pradies

Camille Pradies is Professor of Management at EDHEC Business School, where she has taught since 2014 after earning her PhD in Management and Organizations from Boston College in the United States. Her research draws on paradox theory, identity theory and research on calling and meaningful work to understand how individuals, groups and professionals navigate, cognitively, emotionally and bodily, the tensions that arise from their organizations and environments.

Healthcare and well-being at work are central to her current research. She examines how relationships between professionals, the people they serve and the actors around them can turn tensions into virtuous rather than vicious dynamics. Her recent work shows how professionals idealized as “heroes” or “saints” become vulnerable to unrealistic client expectations, and how some protect their well-being through constructive resistance grounded in a relational understanding of their work. This builds on her long-standing research on veterinarians reconciling care and business, which began with her doctoral work. Her research relies on long-term qualitative fieldwork, action research with organizations and visual and arts-based methods to capture how tensions are lived and navigated over time.

Internationally recognized in the field of organizational paradox, she has published in the Academy of Management Journal, Organization Science, Organization Studies, Academy of Management Learning and Education and the Journal of Management Inquiry. She coordinates the French team of the CHANSE–NORFACE project on paradox mindset and well-being, and guest-edited the first special issue on paradox in the Academy of Management Learning & Education. She received the 2025 Paradox Research, Education and Practice (PREP) Community Award for her contributions to building the paradox community.