معرفی
Youcef Bousalham serves as Associate Professor at EDHEC Business School within the Faculty of Management & Humanities, where he combines theoretical frameworks from organizational sciences, philosophy, and anthropology to analyze how organizations translate social values into practice amidst competitive pressures. His research critically examines tensions between proclaimed organizational ideals and actual business practices, with particular focus on alternative organizations and corporate social responsibility implementation.
Dr. Bousalham holds an HDR (Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches), PhD in Organizational Science, and multiple Master's degrees including Organizational Science (MPhil.), Mass Retailing Management (MSc.), and Project Management (MSc.). His academic journey includes Visiting Researcher positions at Cardiff Business School (UK), Lund University (Sweden), and ESG (Canada), reflecting his international scholarly engagement.
His research explores how organizations promoting social responsibility navigate market competition while maintaining authentic practices. Drawing on Joanne Martin's work on organizational culture pluralism, he investigates 'cultural consistency' in alternative organizations—how they sustain meaningful connections between social values and daily operations despite competitive pressures that often neutralize transformative potential. His methodology combines ethnographic sensitivity with interpretative frameworks, examining how ethical practices get reabsorbed by market logic.
Professor Bousalham's publication record demonstrates consistent focus on organizational culture dynamics and alternative organizational forms. His recent work analyzes coworking spaces as 'syntopies' and examines how competitive contexts threaten alternative organizational models. His interdisciplinary approach bridges management sciences with humanities, reflecting Martin's intellectual legacy of pluralistic organizational analysis.
His scholarly contributions have been recognized with multiple awards:
- Best Paper Award from Academy of Management (Atlanta 2017)
- Best Paper Award from International Association of Strategic Management (2020)
- Best Paper Award from CIESS (International Conference on Organizations of the Social Economy, 2010)
Mentored by Stanford's Joanne Martin—the first tenured woman at Stanford GSB—Professor Bousalham embodies 'tempered radicalism' in his academic practice, fostering critical thinking while supporting meaningful organizational change. His current HDR research extends this tradition, developing frameworks to understand how social values can be upheld against market forces, emphasizing that the challenge today is not proclaiming values but 'upholding' them against competitive distortions. He actively mentors emerging scholars while continuing his ethnographic investigations into organizational tensions between idealism and pragmatism.
