[citation needed] His academic career has taken place primarily at Mines ParisTech and the Paris Sciences et Lettres University, first as an assistant lecturer between 1974 and 1985, then as a second class professor between 1984 and 1994.

[3] In 2014, he contributed to creating the Chair of Enterprise Theory, Forms of Governance, and Collective Creation, directed by Blanche Segrestin and Kevin Levillain.

[4] From 1998 to 2006, Armand Hatchuel was a permanent guest professor at Chalmers University in Gothenburg and at the Stockholm School of Economics, where he participated in the FENIX Programme (business and knowledge creation).

Hatchuel also developed a theory of prescribing relationships[5] to explain collective learning processes and the crises that they encounter in markets and organizations.

This theory clarified the concept of a "management rule" as an emancipating combination of rationality and responsibility, the history and ancient origins of which the author explored in depth.