MEHDI BOUSSEBAA Adam Smith , University of Glasgow, United Kingdom Web: https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/business/staff/mehdiboussebaa/

UNIVERSITY EDUCATION

PhD , University of Warwick (), Oct 2003 – Mar 2008 MA Organisation Studies (with Distinction), University of Warwick (Business School), 2002-2003 Master of European Business, City University (), 1998-1999 BSc (Hons) Business Studies, City University London (Cass Business School), 1995-1998

ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS

Professor, University of Glasgow (Adam Smith Business School), July 2016 –present Reader, Senior Lecturer, Lecturer, University of Bath (School of Management), Sept. 2009 – June 2016 Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, University of Oxford (Saïd Business School), April 2008 – August 2009 Summer Researcher, London School of Economics & Political Science, June-August 2004

External roles and visiting positions International Research Fellow, University of Oxford (Saïd Business School), 2009 – present Visiting Professor, University of Bath (School of Management), January 2017 – present Chercheur invité, LabexMed centre of excellence, Maison Méditerranéenne des Sciences de l’Homme, Aix-Marseille Université, France, May 2016 Visiting Professor, University of Tongji (School of Economics & Management), Shanghai, China, September 2014 Visiting Scholar, University of Lund (School of Economics & Management), Sweden, May 2014 Chercheur invité, Laboratoire d’Economie et de Sociologie du Travail (LEST), Aix-Marseille Université, France, June 2013 Visiting Scholar, Department of Strategic Management and Organization, Alberta School of Business, Canada, 2009

Editorial appointments Associate Editor, Critical Perspectives on International Business, 2016-present Board Member, Journal of World Business (Sage Publications), 2017-present Board Member, Organization Studies (Sage Publications), 2013-present Board Member, Journal of Professions & Organization (Oxford University Press), 2013-present

AWARDS AND HONOURS

Shortlisted twice (2016 and 2017) for the Col. Lyndall F Urwick Memorial Prize, which is awarded annually by the Worshipful Company of Management Consultants, , for an outstanding piece of recently published UK research that is relevant to the subject of management consultancy Dean’s Award for an Outstanding Contribution to Research (2015), University of Bath School of Management Finalist, Carolyn Dexter Award for Best International Paper (2014), Academy of Management Dean’s Award for Research Excellence (2012), University of Bath School of Management Dean’s Award for Innovation & Enterprise (2011), University of Bath School of Management

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PUBLICATIONS

Journal articles Boussebaa M and Faulconbridge J (2019) Professional service firms as agents of economic globalization: A political perspective, Journal of Professions and Organization – in press Boussebaa M and Brown AD (2017) Englishization, identity regulation and imperialism, Organization Studies 38(1): 7–29 * Among the most cited articles published in Organization Studies in the last three years Boussebaa M (2015) Control in the multinational enterprise: the polycentric case of global professional service firms, Journal of World Business 50: 696-703 * Shortlisted for the Col. Lyndall F Urwick Memorial Prize (2017), Worshipful Company of Management Consultants Boussebaa M (2015) Professional service firms, globalization and the new imperialism, , Auditing and Accountability Journal 28(8): 1217-1233 Boussebaa M, Sinha S and Gabriel Y (2014) Englishization in offshore call centres: a postcolonial perspective, Journal of International Business Studies 45(9): 1152-1169 * First postcolonial analysis to be published in this journal. Paper was also a finalist for the Carolyn Dexter Award for Best International Paper (2014), Academy of Management (All-Academy Award) Boussebaa M, Sturdy A and Morgan G (2014) Learning from the world? Horizontal knowledge flows and geopolitics in international consulting firms, International Journal of Human Resource Management 25(9): 1227-1242 * Shortlisted for the Col. Lyndall F Urwick Memorial Prize (2016), Worshipful Company of Management Consultants Boussebaa M and Morgan G (2014) Pushing the frontiers of critical international business studies: the multinational as a neo-imperial space, Critical Perspectives on International Business 10(1/2): 96-106 Boussebaa M, Morgan G and Sturdy A (2012) Constructing global firms? National, transnational and neocolonial effects in international management consultancies, Organization Studies 33(4): 465- 486 Taminiau Y, Boussebaa M and Berghman L (2012) Convergence or divergence? A comparative analysis of informal consultant-client relationship development practices in Britain, France and Germany, Service Industries Journal 32(10): 1707-1720 Greenwood R, Morris T, Fairclough S and Boussebaa M (2010) The organizational design of transnational professional service firms, Organizational Dynamics 39: 173-183 * Included in Science Direct’s ‘Top 25 Hottest Articles’ in the Business, Management and Accounting category (Oct-Dec 2010) Boussebaa M (2009) Struggling to organize across national borders: the case of global resource management in professional service firms, Human Relations 62: 829–850 Boussebaa M and Morgan G (2008) Managing talent across borders: the challenges faced by an international retail group, Critical Perspectives on International Business 4: 25-41

Book chapters Boussebaa M (2017) Global professional service firms, transnational organising and core/periphery networks, in L. Seabrooke & L.F. Henriksen (Eds) Professional Networks in Transnational Governance. Cambridge University Press Boussebaa M and Faulconbridge J (2016) The work of global professional service firms, in A. Wilkinson, D. Hislop & C. Coupland (Eds), Perspectives on Contemporary Professional Work: Challenges and Experiences. Edward Elgar Publishing Boussebaa M and Morgan G (2015) Internationalization of professional service firms: drivers, forms and outcomes, in L. Empson, D. Muzio, J. Broschak & B. Hinings (Eds), Oxford Handbook of Professional Service Firms. Oxford: Oxford University Press

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Boussebaa M (2012) La construction de la multinationale ‘apatride’: le cas des entreprises mondiales de services professionnels, in A. Mendez, R. Tchobanian & A. Vion (Eds), Mondialisation, travail et compétences. Armand Colin Spicer A and Boussebaa M (2009) Managing conflict: the curious case of Neuro-Linguistic Programming, in P. Hancock & M. Tyler (eds), The Management of Everyday Life. Palgrave

Book reviews, case studies and other publications Boussebaa M (2018) Review of Management Research: European Perspectives by S. Siebert (Ed.), Journal of International Management 24(2): 195-197 Boussebaa M, Sinha S and Gabriel Y (2014) Let’s all speak English: how the dominance of English in business perpetuates aspects of the colonial era, Academy of Management Annual Meeting Best Paper Proceedings Issue 1: 918-923 Boussebaa M (2011) The global organizational design of the ‘Big Four’ [opening case], in K. Meyer & M. Peng (Eds), International Business. Cengage Learning. [Reprinted in M. Peng & K. Meyer (2016), International Business, 2nd Ed.] Boussebaa M and Morgan G (2010) Amplifier Consulting: managing a ‘global’ project [integrative case], in R. Daft, J. Murphy & H. Willmott (eds) Organization Theory & Design. Cengage Learning Boussebaa M (2008) Review of Les nettoyeurs by V. Petitet, Organization, 15(3): 467-469 Boussebaa M (2008) Review of Sociologie du conseil en management by M. Villette, Organization, 15(2): 298-300

SCHOLARLY ASSOCIATIONS

European Group for Organizational Studies (EGOS), since 2004 Critical Management Studies, since 2005 Academy of Management (AoM), since 2009 Academy of International Business (AIB), since 2013

INDUSTRY WORK EXPERIENCE

Analyst and then business development manager at The Strategis Group, a leading (now bankrupt) US- headquartered telecoms research and consulting firm, London and Washington DC, 2000-2002

LANGUAGES

English (fluent), Algerian Arabic (native), French (native), Spanish (previously fluent but now conversational)

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