Aline Gatignon

Aline Gatignon is an Assistant Professor of Management at the Wharton School. She completed her Ph.D. in Strategic Management at INSEAD, and previously received a M.A. in Development Economics and a B.A. in Political Science from the Paris Institute of Political Science (Sciences Po).

Aline’s research explains how firms can collaborate with governments and non-profit organizations to solve large-scale socio-environmental and economic problems of mutual concern. She mainly focuses on how these problems can be overcome in emerging markets, where weak formal institutions often make such problems particularly salient.

A central characteristic of Aline’s work is that her analyses draw on both qualitative and quantitative data that she collects from the field, across multiple countries and types of organization. The empirical settings that she studies include cosmetics in Brazil, healthcare partnerships in Africa, Corporate Social Responsibility in India, global environmental nonprofits as well as last-mile logistics and corporate disaster response worldwide. As a result, she is able to examine her phenomenon of interest from different angles so as to, over time, build a deep understanding of the mechanisms connecting cross-sector partnerships to social and performance outcomes.

Alin’s research and pedagogical case studies on this topic have been recognized with several awards, including the Strategic Management Society Best PhD Paper Award and the European Foundation for Management Development case study competition award. Her work has been listed as part of INSEAD’s “50 Years, 50 Women, 50 Ideas” series. She currently serves on the Editorial Board of the Strategic Management Journal.

Awards and Honors

• Named to INSEAD’s “50 Years, 50 Women, 50 Ideas” series, 2018 Description
• Strategic Management Journal Outstanding Editorial Review Board Member Award, 2017
• Finalist, Best PhD Conference Paper Award, Strategic Management Society, 2017
• Nominated for the Strategic Management Society Best Conference Paper Award for ‘Allies or Adversaries: TNGOs’ Strategic Interaction with States’ (w/ Mary-Hunter McDonnell and Kate Odziemkowska), 2016
• Nominated for the Strategic Management Society Best Conference Paper for Practice Implications and Best PhD Conference Paper awards for “The Double-Edged Sword of Public-Private Partnerships: Value Creation and Value Capture across Sector Boundaries”, 2014
• Outstanding Reviewer Award for the Business Policy and Strategy Division of the Academy of Management Annual Conference, 2014
• Winner of the Strategic Management Society Best Conference PhD Paper Prize for “The Locus of Capabilities in Emerging Markets: The Role of Micro-Macro Resource Grafting by Leading Domestic Firms”, 2013
• Nominated for Best Paper, Best Student Paper and Best Paper for Managerial Implications Awards of the Strategic Management Society Annual Conference for “A Process Perspective on Institutional Capability Development”, 2012
• Winner of the European Foundation for Management Development (EFMD) case study competition in the ‘Supply Chain Management’ category, for “The Yogyakarta earthquake: IFRC’s first experiences with the decentralized supply chain”, 2010
• Winner of the European Foundation for Management Development (EFMD) case study competition in the ‘Public Sector Innovation’ category, for “Safety in Numbers: Reducing road risk with Danida’s multi- sector partnership”, 2009
• Winner of the European Foundation for Management Development (EFMD) case study competition in the ‘African Business Cases’ category, for “Paving the Road to Healthy Highways: A partnership to Scale up HIV & AIDS Clinics in Africa”, 2009