Guillaume Dumont

Bio

From studying professional rock climbers in the Yosemite National Park to the creation and creation of social impact start-ups in Barcelona, my research builds on long-term ethnographic fieldwork to provide a sociological and anthropological understanding of worth construction in organizational and entrepreneurial processes. 

2016: Phd Public Anthropology, Universidad Autonoma De Madrid

• 2016: Phd Social Anthropology and STAPS, University of Lyon
• 2010: MA Social and Cultural Anthropology, free University of Brussels

2018-2019: Visiting scholar, Dept. Strategic Management, IESE Business School, Spain

• 2017 - 2019: Juan de la Cierva Research Fellow, Center for Sociological Research on Everyday Life and Work, Department of Sociology, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain
• 2017: Visiting scholar, Digital Ethnography Research Center, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Australia

RESEARCH TOPICS

• Social entrepreneurship, accelerators, impact investors

RESEARCH METHODS

• My approach is eminently ethnographic, and my methodological toolkit includes participant observation, interviews, and the use of secondary data, both offline and online.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

*Book *

• Dumont G, (2018) Grimpeur professionnel. Le travail créateur sur le marché du sponsoring. Paris: Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (Ehess).

Journal articles

• Dumont, G., Ots, M. (2020) The social dynamics of stakeholders’ relationships in personal branding. Journal of Business Research, 106, 118-128.

• Dumont, G. (2018) Creativity at work: The production of work for sale by brand ambassadors. Journal of Cultural Economy, 11(1), 69-82.

• Dumont, G., (2018) The labor of reputation building: Creating, developing and managing individual reputation. Consumption, Market and Culture, 21(1), 515-531.

• Dumont, G. (2016) Multi-layered labor: Entrepreneurship and professional versatility in rock climbing. Ethnography, 17(4), 440-459.