Julie Mayer is a lecturer at the University of Rennes and a research associate at CRG-i3 at Ecole Polytechnique. She holds a doctorate in management science from Université Paris-Dauphine-PSL. Her thesis focused on the attention paid to major risks in organizations. She has worked for several years as a strategy and management consultant in various sectors. Her areas of expertise focus on organizational responses to transition-related risks. For several years, she has been interested in collective forms of sobriety and resilience. She coordinates the Organizing Sobriety research program, as well as the AIMS "Risk, Uncertainty and Management" thematic group.

Research topics

Organizational transformations in the ecological transition

My research focuses on planetary limits, which I study both as a source of risk and as a lever of innovation for organizations. I study organized collective action for different types of organizations: companies, territories and citizen collectives. My research projects focus in particular on sobriety as a form of organization: I examine how to organize the search for "just enough" at different scales.

Emerging risk management and resilience

My work focuses on the forms of organization that emerge from the risks of the Anthropocene. I study how actors can rethink risks and uncertainties that are both systemic and disruptive, leading to the adoption of new management paradigms. I am particularly interested in sources of collective and territorial resilience.

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