last updated: March 2025

Emmanuel Lazéga is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris (“Sciences Po Paris”, France, EU), a member of the Centre de Sociologie des Organisations (CSO-CNRS) and a senior member of the Institut Universitaire de France. His current research projects focus on theorizing and ‘social network modelling’ generic social processes such as solidarity, control, regulation and learning in organised settings.

Selected Publications

Books

Lazega, E. (2020). Bureaucracy, collegiality and social change: Redefining organizations with multilevel relational infrastructures. Cheltenhamn UK: Edward Elgar.

Articles

In reverse chronological order

Lazega, E. (2024). Borderline institution. Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, 54(3), 336–353.

Lazega, E. (2020). Embarked on social processes (the rivers) in dynamic and multilevel networks (the boats). Connections, 40(1), 60–76 [From the Simmel Award Keynote, 2018 Sunbelt conference, INSNA, Utrecht, Netherlands].

Brailly, J., Comet, C., Delarre, S., Eloire, F., Favre, G., Lazega, E., … & Pina-Stranger, A. (2018). Neo-structural economic sociology beyond embeddedness: Relational infrastructures and social processes in markets and market institutions. Economic Sociology, 19(3), 36–49.

Lazega, E. (2017). Networks and institutionalization: A neo-structural approach. Connections, 37 (1-2), 7–22.

Others

Lazega, E. (2018). Participation, top-down collegiality and intermediaries. In P. Donati (Ed.), Towards a participatory society: New roads to social and cultural integration: The proceedings of the 2017 21th plenary session of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences (pp. 482–498). Vatican: LEV.