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Biography

Emmanuelle Léon is a professor of Human Resource Management at ESCP Europe. She graduated from ESSEC Business School with an M.Sc. in Management and holds a Specialist Master (M.S.) in Human Resource Management from CNAM (she graduated Summa Cum Laude with a dissertation on "Virtual offices". She earned her Doctorate Summa Cum Laude from CNAM-ESSEC with a Doctorate on "Remote management". She began her career as a management consultant with Accenture and worked as Project Manager on the development of customized training programs.
Her main interests in terms of research are new organizational forms (remote management, virtual teams, telework). She is particularly keen to identify the impacts of such organizations on individuals and on managerial relationships.
Additionally, Emmanuelle was visiting fellow at ILR (Cornell University) in 2011 and participated in the International Teachers Programme (ITP) at the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University.

Current research

Globalization has led companies to operate across geographic and organizational barriers. Remote management takes place when the manager is physically distant from subordinates and unable to follow their work directly. We aim to understand the managerial practices used in this situation, focusing on the areas of supervision and communication over distance. Geographic distance presents particular challenges, the resolution of which cannot necessarily be limited to the use of tools such as electronic performance monitoring or electronic communication. Our second objective is to identify the impact of remote management on managerial relationships. When the challenges of remote management are not properly met, geographic distance transforms the managerial relationship into a contractual relationship. We also study the impacts of subjective distance vs. objective distance on management relationships.

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