Becoming Imperceptible in a World that Discerns to Award. Reading Bob Dylan’s Nobelization with A Thousand Plateaus

Raffi Duymedjian; Sylvain Colombero; Amélie Boutinot

doi:10.37725/mgmt.2026.14914

Raffi Duymedjian Grenoble École de management, Grenoble, France https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3379-0833
Sylvain Colombero https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8685-9200
Amélie Boutinot https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4814-310X

DOI: https://doi.org/10.37725/mgmt.2026.14914

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Raffi Duymedjian, Grenoble École de management, Grenoble, France

Raffi Duymedjian is an associate professor at Grenoble École de management. His research concentrates on organizational practices from a bricolage perspective. This includes theory of bricolage, managerial and entrepreneurial bricolage, bricolage in the creative industries and also bricolage as practice of creative preservation participating in a meritocracy of preservation. He has published articles in academic journals such as Organization, Organization Studies, Scandinavian Journal of Management, and Technological Forecasting and Social Change.

Sylvain Colombero

Sylvain Colombero is an associate professor of strategy and information systems at EDHEC Business School. He holds a PhD awarded jointly by the École des mines de Paris and the Copenhagen Business School, as well as a qualification to supervise doctoral research (HDR) from the University of Strasbourg. His research focuses on neo-institutional issues across various sectors, ranging from the creative industries to technology companies. He is also interested in concepts such as bricolage, authenticity, and the ordinary in organizational practices. His work has been published in journals such as Journal of Management Studies, Scandinavian Journal of Management, Journal of Business Models ou la Revue française de gestion.

Amélie Boutinot

Amélie Boutinot is a full professor at EM Strasbourg, University of Strasbourg, HuManiS laboratory. She holds a PhD in management science from Université Grenoble Alpes, France, and is currently deputy director of HuManiS. Her research focuses on individual and collective trajectories in the creative industries. She has published articles in academic journals such as Organization Studies, Journal of Business Research or Strategic Organization. She teaches strategy and creativity.

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