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The research category includes my academic publications, opinion pieces on academia or open science or research methods tips,
The teaching category includes textbook reviews, teaching tips or resources for students and teachers in my discipline,
The fiction category has short science-fiction stories about the future of work impacted by technology,
The opinion category presents opinion pieces on work and technology and various ideas on how to apply my research.

Master's thesis: Trust Formation in Virtual Teams - A Vignette Experiment on the Interplay Between Authentic Leadership and Media Richness

28/07/2022 Uncategorized Publication, Work, Technology, Research

Master's Dissertation, submitted in September 2013 to Aston Business School for the fulfillment of my MSc in Organisational Behaviour, under the supervision of Dr LYUBOVNIKOVA Joanne. This dissertation investigates the impact of authentic leadership on trust formation and ethical decision-making in virtual teams. To do so, special attention was given to the mediating role of social identification. This is done using an online vignette experiment manipulating both authentic leadership and media richness to study their effects on trust and other outcomes. The sample consists of undergraduate business students and employees.

29/06/2022 Research Publication, Work, Technology, Research

Publication: Web Robinson, vivre le télétravail extrême par identification narrative

29/06/2022 Research Publication, Work, Technology, Research

En 2014, le « Web Robinson » Gauthier Toulemonde partait 40 jours télétravailler sur une île déserte, physiquement isolé mais virtuellement connecté à une communauté immergée dans ses aventures. Cet article mobilise ce cas extrême et semi-fictionnel pour comprendre les mécanismes d’identification narrative ayant permis à ses lecteurs-auditeurs-spectateurs de vivre par procuration les paradoxes de l’autonomie asservie et de l’hyperconnexion solitaire inhérents au télétravail, puis de devenir les auteurs de leurs propres récits durant la crise COVID-19.

07/04/2022 Research Publication, Work, Technology, Research

Publication: Email Overload: Investigating Technology-fit Antecedents and Job-related Outcomes

07/04/2022 Research Publication, Work, Technology, Research

Email is the communication application most widely used in organizations. Its use in the workplace has increased fourfold since 2006. Yet, email is associated with a number of negative aspects, most prominently ‘email overload’, defined as an individual’s perception of being overwhelmed by emails that s/he considers too numerous to handle. Email overload is a theoretically interesting phenomenon because of its adverse organizational outcomes. Moreover, it continues to be vexing in practice because it has proved intractable to manage. We problematize the current understanding of email overload as being due to lack of understanding of its technology fit-related antecedents and job-related outcomes, and then investigate how email overload is influenced by a lack of fit between the communication applications that the organization provides to individuals and those that (1) they want, and that (2) are suitable for their tasks. We hypothesize that such lack of fit leads to email by default, defined as the perception of email being used improperly, when other communication applications would be better suited. Email by default is then hypothesized to lead to email overload. We further investigate job-related outcomes of email overload. To achieve this, we conducted a two-stage, multi-method empirical study in a large manufacturing organization in a sequential research design, where the first study (qualitative-interviews) informed the second (quantitative-survey). Our results support the hypothesized relationships. The paper theoretically broadens the scholarly discourse on email overload to include novel antecedents and outcomes in the ongoing quest to establish a more complete understanding of this phenomenon.

28/10/2021 Impact, Fiction Work, Technology