Areas of research
- Leadership, strategic leadership
- Leadership Ethics, hubris, destructive leaders
- Charisma, Spiritual leadership, spirituality at work
- Equality and gender at work, gendered leadership, gendered psychosocial risks
- Public and political leadership
Areas of teaching
- Leadership
- Strategic management
- Ethics and CSR
- Social & work Psychology
Publications from the last 5 years
Articles
PETIT, V. (2026). Resisting Hubris: For a Stoic Ethics of Power in Leadership Development. Business Ethics, the Environment and Responsibility.
SAINT-MICHEL, S. and PETIT, V. (2025). Climat de diversité et leadership authentique : l’effet médiateur du stéréotype masculin du leader. Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, Regards croisés des deux côtés de l’Atlantique sur le management de l’inclusion, 80(1).
Conference papers (with selection committee)
PETIT, V. (2026). Éduquer au pouvoir pour prévenir l’hubris : une approche stoïcienne du care en leadership et en RSE. In: 22e Congrès de l’ADERSE Prendre soin pour transformer : Care management, innovation responsable et nouveaux visages de la RSE. Lyon.
PETIT, V. (2025). L'hubris du leader et les effets corrupteurs du pouvoir. In: 6e Journée de Recherche de la Revue Internationale de Psychosociologie et de gestion des Comportements Organisationnels (RIPCO). ICN Paris La Défense.
PETIT, V. and LESAGE, X. (2025). Resisting Hubris with Stoic Philosophy. In: IISES International Academic Conference. Prague University of Economics and Business.
LANGLOIS, M. and PETIT, V. (2025). Coercive control in organisation studies: Unveiling the continuum of gendered violence at work and beyond. In: 14th International Critical Management Studies (ICMS) Conference. Manchester Metropolitan University.
ROBINSON, S., RUILLER, C., DEMEYÈRE, C., VIGNON, C., PETIT, V. and TASKIN, L. (2025). Visibilising Violence: co-writing differently about violence in academia - an alter-ethnography. In: 41st EGOS Colloquium: Creativity that goes a long way. The American College of Greece, Athens.
LANGLOIS, M. and PETIT, V. (2025). Coercive control: An innovative framework for gendered violence in organisations. In: 41st EGOS Colloquium: Creativity that goes a long way. The American College of Greece, Athens.
PETIT, V. and PAVIE, X. (2024). A l’épreuve du pouvoir : exercices spirituels et résistance à l’hubris du pouvoir. In: Société de philosophie des sciences de gestion. Lille.
Books chapters and other contributions
PETIT, V. (2025). Combien coûte l’ego d’Elon Musk ? Ou quand l’hubris des dirigeants devient un risque systémique. The Conversation, France.
UNTERMAIER, C. and PETIT, V. (2024). 577 contr’un : revaloriser le role du député. Think Tank Génération Libre. France.