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 Mehdi Boussebaa 

 

Mehdi Boussebaa is a Lecturer in Organizational Studies at the University of Bath. Prior to joining Bath in September 2009, he was a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the Novak Druce Centre for Professional Service Firms within Saïd Business School, where he is now Associate Fellow. He received his PhD (ESRC-funded) from the University of Warwick in 2008.

Prior to his academic career, Mehdi spent 2½ years working for an American telecoms research and consulting firm in London. He also worked as a summer analyst on a joint London School of Economics-McKinsey project researching management practices in France, Germany, the UK and the USA.

 

Mehdi Boussebaa’s primary research investigates the managerial and organizational implications of globalization. Empirically, he concentrates on global professional service firms and, theoretically, he draws on the fields of International Management and Organization Theory (principally Institutionalism and Postcolonialism). His most recent research project examined the organizational challenges that globalization creates for major international management consultancies, focusing on such domains as the management of flexpatriate assignments, the formation of global teams, and the transnational diffusion of knowledge. His research has been published in such journals as Human Relations, Organizational Dynamics and Organization Studies.

JOURNAL ARTICLES

Boussebaa, M., Morgan, G. & Sturdy, A. (2012). Constructing global firms? National, transnational and postcolonial effects in international management consultancies. Forthcoming in Organization Studies. (ABS 4*, FT Top 45)

Taminiau, Y., Boussebaa, M. & Berghman, L. (2012).  Convergence or divergence? A comparative analysis of informal consultant-client relationship development practices in Britain, France and Germany. Forthcoming in The Service Industries Journal, 32(10). (ABS 2*)

Greenwood, R., Morris, T., Fairclough, S. & Boussebaa, M. (2010). The organizational design of transnational professional service firms. Organizational Dynamics, 39(2): 173-183. (ABS 3*, Science Direct Top 25 Hottest Articles)

Boussebaa, M. (2009). Struggling to organise across national borders: the case of global resource management in professional service firms. Human Relations, 62(6): 829–850. (ABS 4*)

Boussebaa, M. & Morgan, G. (2008). Managing talent across national borders: the challenges faced by an international retail group. Critical Perspectives on International Business, 4(1): 25-41.


BOOK CHAPTERS

Boussebaa, M., Morgan, G. & Sturdy, A. (Forthcoming, 2012). Projects & professionals: management consultants in the new world of work. In P. du Gay & G. Morgan (Eds), New Spirits of Capitalism? On the Ethics of the Contemporary Capitalist Order. Oxford University Press.

Boussebaa, M. (2012). La construction de la multinationale “apatride”: le cas des entreprises mondiales de services professionnels. In A. Mendez (Ed.), Mondialisation, travail et compétences: les dynamiques sociétales en question. Armand Colin.

Boussebaa, M. (2011). The global organizational design of the “Big Four” [opening case]. In M. Peng & K. Meyer, International Business. Cengage Learning.

Boussebaa, M. & Morgan, G. (2010). Amplifier Consulting – managing a ‘Global’ project [case study]. In R. Daft, H. Willmott, & J. Murphy, Organisational Theory & Design. Cengage Learning.

Spicer, A. & Boussebaa, M. (2009). Managing conflict: the curious case of Neuro-Linguistic Programming. In P. Hancock & M. Tyler (Eds), The Management of Everyday Life. Palgrave.

Contact Details

School of Management
University of Bath
BA2 7AY

Email: mb404@management.bath.ac.uk