Emmanuel Lazega is FNSP Emeritus Research Professor at the Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris and a member of the Centre de Sociologie des Organisations.

His research contributes to the development of a neo-structural sociology that brings together organisational analysis and social network analysis to understand how collective action works. This approach observes, models, articulates, and compares the generic social processes of meso-level social life (e.g., particularistic solidarities and exclusions, socialisation and collective learning, social control and conflict management, regulation and institutionalisation) in order to better understand how contemporary “organisational society” functions at the meso level.

Recent publications include Bureaucracy, Collegiality and Social Change (Edward Elgar, 2020), Post-Human Institutions and Organizations (Routledge, 2019, co-edited with Ismael Al-Amoudi), and Knowledge and Networks (Springer, 2017, co-edited with Johannes Glückler & Ingmar Hammer.