Gulsun Altintas

Gulsun Altintas serves as Professor at Polytechnic University of Hauts-de-France in Valenciennes since 2023, following eleven years as Associate Professor (Maître de Conférences) at the same institution. Her academic trajectory includes teaching and research roles at University of Lille, with specialization in strategic management and organizational theory.

Her educational qualifications include:

• Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches (HDR) in Management Sciences, University of Caen Normandie (2020)
• PhD in Management Sciences (Strategy & Organizational Management), University of Lille (2011)
• Master 2 Research in Management Sciences, University of Lille (2007)
• Master 1 in Management Sciences (Marketing), University of Lille (2006)

Professor Altintas's research program centers on dynamic capabilities theory, particularly examining organizational resilience in crisis contexts. Her work investigates how tourism businesses rebuild resources during disruptions like Covid-19, analyzing microfoundations of resilience through managerial cognition and routine adaptation. She extends this to entrepreneurial and individual resilience frameworks within big business contexts.

Analysis of her 2019-2023 publications reveals intensifying focus on crisis-driven capability renewal, with tourism sector case studies dominating her empirical work. The Covid-19 pandemic catalyzed her shift toward macro-environmental disruption studies, while maintaining core interest in knowledge-based dynamic capabilities and managerial decision processes.

At doctoral level, she supervises PhD theses while teaching strategic management, crisis management, and innovation courses across bachelor's and master's programs. University service includes ERASMUS mobility coordination, membership in CRISS department and LARSH laboratory's scientific committee, and thesis committee participation.