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Tarik Saikouk is a Full Professor of Supply Chain Management at Excelia Business School in La Rochelle, France, where he also serves as the Director of the Supply Chain, Purchasing & Project Management Department. With a background spanning engineering and management sciences, he brings a distinctive interdisciplinary perspective to his academic work and research leadership. As an Associate Editor for the French Journal of Industrial Management, he contributes significantly to scholarly discourse in his field.
Dr. Saikouk's educational background includes a degree in industrial systems engineering from the University of Technology of Troyes (2009), a Ph.D. in Supply Chain Management from the University of Grenoble (2013), and a HDR (Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches) from the University of Grenoble Alpes (2023). His professional journey includes leadership roles at Excelia Business School since 2019, where he progressed from Associate Professor to Full Professor, while also serving as Department Head. Prior to this, he held significant positions at the International University of Rabat in Morocco from 2012-2020, including Head of Supply Chain & IS Department and Coordinator of Executive Master's programs.
His research interests focus on the social dimension of supply chain management, with particular emphasis on relational dynamics, behavioral aspects, social dilemmas, and social complex systems within supply chains. He explores how artificial intelligence intersects with supply chain management and investigates lean supply chain practices, operational excellence, and lean management methodologies. His unique engineering-management perspective allows him to examine how social capital mobilization and social dynamics influence supply chain effectiveness and resilience.
Analysis of Dr. Saikouk's recent publications reveals a strong trend toward integrating social dynamics with technological advances in supply chain management. His work increasingly focuses on AI-driven digital transformation in supply chains, sustainable logistics practices aligned with the European Green Deal, and the psychological/cognitive aspects of supply chain decision-making. There's a clear progression from traditional supply chain topics toward more complex interdisciplinary research examining the intersection of human behavior, technology, and sustainability in global supply networks.
Dr. Saikouk has held significant leadership roles including Director of the Supply Chain Department at Excelia and previously served as Head of Supply Chain & IS Department at the International University of Rabat. His professional trajectory shows steady advancement from Assistant Professor positions to his current Full Professor role, with consistent departmental leadership responsibilities. His research has been supported through various academic positions that have provided him with resources to develop his distinctive research perspective on the social complexity of supply chains.
