Les travaux des chercheurs de L'EDHEC Leadership & Corporate Governance Research Center autour de 6 axes de recherche positionnés dans les champs des comportements organisationnels (Organizational behavior), du leadership stratégique et de la gouvernance d'entreprise.

-  Légitimité managériale et gouvernance d'entreprise (Prof. Jean-Luc Arrègle, Prof. Valérie Petit)

-  Leadership stratégique (Prof. Valérie Petit)

-  Équipes dirigeantes et gouvernance familiale (Prof. Isabelle Mari)

-  Éthique et régulations des équipes dirigeantes (Prof. Björn Fasterling)

-  Images, réputations et réseaux des dirigeants (Prof. Véronique Boulocher)

-  Les équipes dirigeantes et leurs managers (Prof. Sylvie Deffayet)

 Les travaux qui nous inspirent :

-  Hambrick, D.C. & Finkelstein, S. 1996. Strategic Leadership: Top Executives and Their Effects on Organizations. West's Strategic Management Series.

-  Conger, J. A. and Riggio, R. (Eds.) 2006. The Practice of Leadership. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass Publishers.

-  Alvarez, J. L. and Svejenova, S. 2006. Sharing Executive Power. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.

-  Murray, A. 2007. Revolt in the Boardroom: The New Rules of Power in Corporate America.  N.Y.: Collins.

-  Mc Gregor, L., 2000. The human face of Corporate governance. Palgrave Macmillan.

-  Jost, J.T. & Major, B. 2001. The Psychology of Legitimacy, Emerging Perspectives on Ideology, Justice, and Intergroup Relations. Cambridge University Press.

-  Tyler, T.R., 1997. The psychology of legitimacy: a relational perspective on voluntary deference to authorities. Personality and social Psychology Review, 1(4): 323-345.

- Cameron, K., Dutton, J.E., and Quinn, R.E. (eds.). (2003). Positive Organizational Scholarship: Foundations of a New Discipline. San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler Publishers

- Ghoshal, S. 2005. Bad Management Theories Are Destroying Good Management Practices. Academy of Management Learning & Education, 4: 75-91.

- Davis, J. H., Schoorman, F.D., and Donaldson, L. 1997. Toward a stewardship theory of management. Academy of Management Review, 22 (1): 20-47.

- French, J.R. & Raven, B. 1959. The bases of social power. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan, Institute for Social Research.

- Weber, M. 1978. Economy and Society, 2 vols., eds. Guenther Roth and Claus Wittich, Berkeley: University of California Press.