At the proposal of our BoD, our General Assembly approved in 2020, the creation of an advisory council which will be composed, among others, of past committed leaders of the federation.
In this way, the General Assembly aims to keep worldwide field and organizational memory as well as, together with the BoD, benefit from the insights and recommendations of the advisory council.
Xavier Castañer (Chair) is PhD in Business Administration by the University of Minnesota, since 2014 Xavier is a full professor of Strategy at the University of Lausanne (Switzerland). He was previously on the faculty of ESADE and HEC Paris. He has also taught at the HEC Geneva, Hebrew University in Jerusalem, London Business School, Technion and the Universita Catolica del Sacro Cuore. He has developed and taught several courses on strategy at all levels, including the Grande Ecole, the MBA, the PhD and Executive Education programs. He has been a visiting faculty at SCANCOR, Boston College, ESADE, Tel Aviv University and VU Amsterdam.
He teaches and does research on corporate governance, strategy and development, as well as innovation and organizational design. He has published in top management journals such as the Academy of Management Review, Administrative Science Quarterly, Corporate Governance International Review, Journal of Management, Journal of Management Studies, International Journal of Innovation Management and Strategic Management Journal.
He is very active in the scientific community, having had leadership roles at AOM, EURAM, SMS and IFSAM, where he completed the cycle of president elect, president and past president (2020-2024), pushing for his Vision 2024. He co-chaired and organized the 2020 IFSAM biennial conference, the first online as well as the IFSAM 30 years’ anniversary ceremony. Under his leadership, IFSAM approved its first policy statement, in the domain of research evaluation. He served as EURAM vicepresident for external relations, being under his tenure that EURAM joined IFSAM. He has been director of his department at HEC UNIL. He also is invited and participates in many developmental activities for doctoral students in the major conferences as well as in CCC.
Further, Xavier also consults for different organizations and has appeared in major international and national outlets (FT, Forbes, Le temps, and NZZ, among others). He is also active in social media, currently more in Linkedin (more than 10000 followers), after having abandoned the former media Twitter in 2024.
Greg J. Bamber is a British-Australian Professor, Department of Management and Co-Director, International Consortium for Research in Employment & Work, Monash Business School. He is also Research Theme Lead: Future of Work @ Monash AI Institute, all at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. He has received numerous awards and has served as President of several academies including: Australia and New Zealand Academy of Management (ANZAM), International Federation of Scholarly Associations of Management. He is a Fellow of several academies including ANZAM, BAM, Academy of Social Sciences; Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia; Australian Human Resources (HR) Institute; Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development. He was educated at University (U) of Manchester, London School of Economics and Heriot-Watt U, Edinburgh. He was formerly an academic at Durham U, UK and also in Australia at Queensland U; Queensland U of Technology (Director, Australian Research Council (ARC) Key Centre in Strategic Management); Griffith U (Dean/Director, Graduate School of Management). He is an Honorary Professor, U of Warwick, UK, and has been a visiting professor at universities in other countries. He has served on several boards in the fields of education, healthcare and sport, as well as on more than 20 editorial boards for international journals. Many universities and conferences have invited him to give presentations. He has more than 200 academic publications. He has helped to lead many research projects funded by the Australian Research Council and the UK Economic and Social Research Council. International agencies (e.g. International Labour Organization), governments and enterprises have commissioned him to conduct research projects or to be an advisor on work organisation, HR or industrial relations. He has conducted research in many sectors including aviation, agriculture, building, chemicals, education, electronics, engineering, finance, health, hotels, infrastructure, mining, the public sector, railways, restaurants, retailing, tourism, telecommunications, manufacturing, universities, and unions as well as a range of enterprises. He is also cited in the media. For more, see The Conversation, Linkedin, Orcid, Twitter, Who’s Who in Australia, YouTube.
Kerry Brown is the Professor of Employment and Industry in the School of Business and Law at Edith Cowan University, Perth, Australia. She is Program Leader for the Governance and Organisational Planning Program and a Director of the Asset Institute. As an longstanding Executive Board Member and Founding Fellow of the International Society for Engineering Asset Management (ISEAM) from 2007-2024; member, Standards Australia Mirror Committee MB019 Asset Management (since 2009) and, member of International Standards Organisation ISO TC251 to develop an International Standard (ISO 55000) for physical assets and asset systems, and Asset Management Committee member of the IPWEA (Institute of Public Works Engineers Australasia) she has significant expertise in Asset Management. She was a Board Member (2016-2024) and President of the Australia and New Zealand Academy of Management from 2020-2022. Professor Brown specialises in organisational management; collaboration, networks and business clusters; capability, strategy, management and policy for infrastructure asset management; public management and policy, gender and workforce issues and, negotiation.
Alain Burlaud (former AC Chair) is an Emeritus Professor at the Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers (CNAM), where he was director of the Accountancy Education Institute (Intec) for ten years. He has published numerous articles and books, while at the same time working as a chartered accountant and auditor.
He chaired the French Accounting Association (AFC) from 1997 to 1999 and the jury for the chartered accountancy final exam from 1986 to 1996. As an advisor to the Ministry of Higher Education and Research, he was in charge of the implementation of the reform of the bachelors, masters and doctorate degrees in the French universities from 2004 to 2012. In addition, as president in 1997 and 1998 of the International Federation of Scholarly Associations of Management (IFSAM) and vice-president of the International Association for Accounting Education and Research (IAAER), he has developed numerous international projects. He is the director of the “Expertise comptable” text books collection published by Foucher.
Carmen Cabello-Medina is a Professor at the Department of Business Organization and Management at Pablo de Olavide University of Seville (UPO). Her research focuses on innovation management, open innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystems. She has led several national and international research projects in these areas.
She served as president of ACEDE (Spanish Academy of Management) during the 2022-2024 term and has been responsible for the INNLAB Research Center on Entrepreneurship, Innovation, and Family Business at UPO, from its creation in 2018 until 2024. She is also a member of the GEM (Global Entrepreneurship Monitor) and coordinates the GEM Team for the Province of Seville. Furthermore, she is a founding member of the Andalusian Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Observatory and deputy director of the European Institute for Sustainability in Management.
Her research has been published in prestigious international academic journals, including R&D Management Journal, Industrial Marketing Management, Business Research Quarterly, Journal of Business Research, British Journal of Management, Technological Forecasting and Social Change and Technovation, among others.
She served as president of ACEDE (Spanish Academy of Management) during the 2022-2024 term and has been responsible for the INNLAB Research Center on Entrepreneurship, Innovation, and Family Business at UPO, from its creation in 2018 until 2024. She is also a member of the GEM (Global Entrepreneurship Monitor) and coordinates the GEM Team for the Province of Seville. Furthermore, she is a founding member of the Andalusian Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Observatory and deputy director of the European Institute for Sustainability in Management.
Her research has been published in prestigious international academic journals, including R&D Management Journal, Industrial Marketing Management, Business Research Quarterly, Journal of Business Research, British Journal of Management, Technological Forecasting and Social Change and Technovation, among others.
Jerry Davis is Faculty Director at Gilbert & Ruth Whitaker Professor of Management and Sociology, Ross School of Business, University of Michigan.
Received his PhD from Stanford and taught at Northwestern and Columbia before moving to the University of Michigan, where he is Gilbert and Ruth Whitaker Professor of Business Administration and Professor of Sociology. He has published widely in management, sociology, and finance. His books include Social Movements and Organization Theory (2005); Organizations and Organizing (2007); Managed by the Markets: How Finance Reshaped America (2009); Changing your Company from the Inside Out: A Guide for Social Intrapreneurs (2015); The Vanishing American Corporation (2016); and Taming Corporate Power in the 21st Century (2022).
Davis’s research is broadly concerned with the effects of finance on society, changes in the corporate economy, and new forms of organization. Recent writings examine how ideas about corporate social responsibility have evolved to meet changes in the structures and geographic footprint of multinational corporations; whether “shareholder capitalism” is still a viable model for economic development; how income inequality in an economy is related to corporate size and structure; why theories about organizations do (or do not) progress; how architecture shapes social networks and innovation in organizations; why stock markets spread to some countries and not others; and whether there exist viable organizational alternatives to shareholder-owned corporations in the United States.
You can find out more at https://sites.google.com/a/umich.edu/jerrydavis/home
Santiago García Echevarria has doctorates from the University of Cologne and the Complutense University in Madrid. He has been a lecturer at the Universidad Comercial de Deusto in Bilbao and at the Complutense in Madrid. He held the Chair of Business Economy at the University of Barcelona and this same Chair at the University of Alcalá. He collaborated in the planning and development of the Universidad de Educación a Distancia in Madrid. He was also a member of the Steering Committee which developed the University of Alcalá and was Founding Dean of the Faculty of Economic and Business Sciences at Alcalá.
Dr García Echevarría was Director of the Instituto de Dirección y Organización de Empresa (IDOE) at the University of Alcalá. He was also President of the Asociación Alexander von Humboldt España and he is member of the Consejo Consultivo de Privatizaciones (CCP),and is Professor Emeritus of the University of Alcalá MBA and Honorary Professor. He was Embassador Scientist of the Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung.
He was a council member of the Centre Européen pour le Management Stratégic des Universités (ESMU) in Brussels and of the Brussels Initiative, and was President and Co-founder of ACEDE (Asociación Cientifica de Economía y Dirección de la Empresa). He was also President and Co-founder of IFSAM (International Federation of Scholarly Associations of Management).
In the business sector Dr García Echevarría started with the Banco de Bilbao, moving later to the Unión Española de Explosivos and then becoming Managing Director of Demag Equipos Industriales. He has played an active part in many business transformation processes in Spain.
He has published a large number of books and articles in various languages and has given lectures and seminars within the fields of business and the socio-economic order in a wide variety of different circles.
He has participated in the design and performance of the MBA of Alcala University and the Siemens Management Learning Programme S4 and S5 in collaboration with the Alcalá University. The Programm was nominated as Best Practice.
Felicity Kelliher is a Professor of Management Practice and at the Faculty of Business, South East Technological University (SETU), Ireland. Felicity contributes to the wider academic and practice communities; she is secretary of the IFSAM advisory council and past Chair of the Irish Academy of Management. A Fulbright alum, Felicity works closely with colleagues in Ireland, UK, Europe, Canada and USA on funded research projects. She regularly contributes to management theory through publication in top tier international journals and has co-edited/authored three books. An experienced principal investigator, research supervisor and mentor, Felicity specialises in action research and longitudinal interpretive case methods, with a particular interest in rural small business research. As co-founder and academic lead of the BRIM-RIKON research centre, she helps lead a team of 60+ researchers and students who work closely with academic and business leaders in the design and delivery of innovative research interventions, and in the exploration of new approaches to capability development and management practice, including living labs.
Wafa Khlif is a Full Professor at TBS Education and has been Head of the Accounting, Auditing and Control research lab 2020-2024. Wafa worked also as an Associate Professor at the Université de la Manouba in Tunisia from 2003 to 2010 and having had visiting positions at the University of Ottawa in Canada, IREMAM in Aix of Provence and in the UNAL, Bogota-Colombia. Her research and teaching areas include management control, research methodology, sociology of accounting profession and corporate governance. Wafa is a member of the EURAM, of CAAA, and EGOS. She served as President of the Tunisian Accounting Association, with research published in journals such as CCA, RFG, the Journal of Accounting and Management Information Systems, Technovation, and the International Journal of Production Economics.
Patricia (Trish) Genoe McLaren (on leave) is Associate Vice President: Academic and an Associate Professor of Business Technology Management in the Lazaridis School of Business & Economics at Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. She is the Past-President of the Administrative Sciences Association of Canada and the Chair of the Management History Division of the Academy of Management.
Trish’s research is in the areas of management and organizational history and critical management studies, with a focus on the history of management education and business schools and the development of management thought. She conducts archival research and works mainly with critical hermeneutic analysis and critical discourse analysis. She is particularly interested in context, language, and power. Trish has been a driving force behind the development and administration of the Business Technology Management program at Laurier’s Brantford campus, which received formal accreditation in 2017 from the BTM Accreditation Council. She is a founding member of the BTM Governing Council, which accredits BTM programs and certifies BTM graduates and professionals. Trish teaches technology management courses in the program, including systems analysis and design, enterprise architecture, project management, and technology and innovation management.
Dr. Xavier Mendoza is a professor in the Strategy and General Management department at ESADE Business School, Ramon Llull University. He has served as director general of ESADE (2022-2024). He also served as dean of ESADE Business School (2000-2008) and as deputy director general of ESADE Foundation (2008-2011).
His primary research interests focus on corporate strategy, firm internationalization processes, and strategic management of multinational enterprises. His research has been published in international scholarly journals and book chapters. He is a member of the Academic Advisory Council of the Emerging Markets Institute, SC Johnson College of Business, Cornell University.
Xavier has actively been engaged in the governance of several international academic and professional associations. Currently he is a member of the BSIS Steering Committee at the European Foundation for Management Development (EFMD Global).
Previously, he was a member of the Executive Committee (2008-2017) and President (2015-2017) of the Business Association of Latin American Studies (BALAS) who appointed him BALAS Fellow in 2023. He was an elected member of the Board of Directors of AACSB-International (2008-2011) after serving in its Accreditation Committee for six years. As dean of ESADE Business School he was one of the founders of the European Academy of Business in Society (EABIS, today ABIS) and served as member and Academic Vice-Chair of its Supervisory Board (2002-2008).
Arabella Mocciaro Li Destri is the Professor of Management in the Department of Economics, Business and Statistics at the University of Palermo, Italy. She is member of the University of Palermo’s Academic Senate and the Rectors’ Delegate for Strategic Planning, and as well for the University wide contribution to the Mattei Plan (the Italian Government Plan for Africa). She is Past President of the Società Italiana di Management (SIMA) and has been Secretary General of IFSAM and of SIMA. She has been awarded the British Academy of Management Medal for Leadership and the British Academy of Management Companionship Award, as well as the IFSAM Outstanding Service Federation Award. She has been a visiting scholar at the MIT Sloan School of Management and a visiting professor at the Tuck School of Management at Dartmouth in the USA as well as at the IAE Business School in Argentina. She focuses her research on strategic management, inter-firm networks, firm capabilities and evolution, corporate wrongdoing, institutional contexts and firm strategy, also related to sustainability and gender issues.
Professor Michael Morley holds the Chair in Management at the Kemmy Business School, University of Limerick, Ireland, where he teaches international and cross-cultural management. He also mentors a cohort of doctoral candidates pursuing programmes of research on expatriate management, psychological contracts, global careers and new forms of organising, several of whom are scholarship holders. Previously, he held various leadership roles including Head of the Department of Management & Marketing, Head of the Department of Personnel & Employment Relations, Assistant Dean of Research and Director of the Graduate Centre of Business.
Professor Morley’s research interests encompass international, comparative, and cross-cultural human resource management, which he explores at different levels. He has co-authored and edited several books which have been published by, among others, Routledge, Oxford University Press, Butterworth-Heinemann, and Palgrave Macmillan. His journal articles have appeared in many outlets in international business, human resource management and organizational psychology. He has held a range of editorial roles and editorial board memberships at several journals. He is a long serving member of the Cranet Network, a research consortium founded in 1989 and now involving more than 40 Universities throughout the world engaged in studying human resource management practices in context. He has served as Chair of the Irish Academy of Management and as President of the International Federation of Scholarly Associations of Management. He is a Fellow of the Irish Academy.
Alketa Peci – Current Head of the Professional Master’s in Public Administration (MAP) . Her research interests relate with the study of bureaucracy and its major transformations, focusing on autonomous bureaucracies as Independent Regulatory Agencies (IRAs) and Audit Offices; on bureaucratic representation; public-private/nonprofit partnerships, and the adoption of better regulation reforms. Currently, she is working on following research projects: drivers of decision-making in autonomous bureaucratic institutions; regulators professional careers paths; bureaucratic reputation and representation effects on policy audiences; media reputation as a strategic resource for public agencies; the role of intangible resources on public-nonprofit performance; bureaucratic careers, networking and collaboration; administrative burdens and policy learning.
Yvon PESQUEUX is emeritus Professor at CNAM (Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers), head of the Chair « Développement des Systèmes d’Organisation », e-mail: yvon.pesqueux@lecnam.net, web site: esd.fr, LinkedIn, www.linkedin.com/in/yvon-pesqueux-a1aa21). Ph D. in Economics, University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (1975) and Doctor honoris causa, University of Galati, Romania (2011), his special interests are Management, Philosophy and Ethics, Business and Society, Corporate Social Responsibility. He has published several scientific articles. His last books are: Epistémologie des sciences de gestion, Vuibert, Paris, 2013 (in collaboration with Alain-Charles MARTINET), Contrat psychologique et organisations – Comprendre les accords écrits et non écrits, Pearson France, Paris, 2014, (in collaboration with Denise ROUSSEAU & Pascale de ROZARIO & Rémi JARDAT), Management Performance and Control, Dunod, Paris, 2016 (in collaboration with Hélène LÖNING & Véronique MALLERET & Jérôme MERIC), La confiance en questions, L’Harmattan, Paris, 2016 (en coll.), Théorie des organisations, Pearson, Paris, 2018 (en collaboration avec Pascale de ROZARIO), Réfléchir – De l’importance de la tâche discursive en sciences de gestion, ems, série « Les grands auteurs francophones », Caen, 2022, Hommage à Geneviève CAUSSE, L’Harmattan Sénégal, Dakar, 2025 (in collaboration with Fatou DIOP SALL)
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Treasurer : 1998-2008
President-elect/president/past president 2008-2014
Treasurer : 2015-2021
Yukio Takagaki (PhD, DBA) is a Professor Emeritus at Surugadai University in Saitama, Japan.
After he graduated from the University of Tokushima, he began his career as a mechanical engineer. During his 20-year business career, he gained extensive experience in the petroleum, chemical, and plastics industries, encompassing environmental management, innovation, and international business.
He returned to the university for graduate work in international management (MA from International University of Japan, 1989), and then later entered the University of Tokyo for doctoral work on the environmental strategy of Japanese firms (PhD, 1997).
He was invited in 1995 to teach at Okinawa International University. And he moved to Surugadai University in 2000. He taught numerous courses in strategic management, international management, and related fields at several universities. He spent time twice at the University of Reading in the UK, working with faculty and researchers there. He was a visiting lecturer for English-taught courses in the MBA program at both the International University of Japan (IUJ) and Rikkyo University for 15 years. After that, he received a DBA degree in Innovation in SMEs from Rikkyo University (2017). In 2021, he retired as a Professor of Strategy Management at Surugadai University.
He is a member of the AIB (Academy of International Business), the BAM (British Academy of Management), the AJBS (Association of Japanese Business Societies), and the JABA (Japan Academy of Business Administration). He is a former Vice-President of JFMRA (Japan Federation of Management Related Academies)
Professor Yinshan Tang is a Vice Dean of Henley Business School, University of Reading, UK. Dr Tang is a Professor in Management Informatics, who teaches IT Project Management, Applied Informatics, Organisation Design and Performance Management.
He obtained his PhD degree at Imperial College London in 1994. He then had two terms of postdoctoral experiences in Universidad de Los Andes, Venezuela and Keele University, UK. In 1998, he joined a business consulting company as a senior management team member for six years before joining the University of Reading helping to establish the Informatics Research Centre in 2004.
His research is multi-disciplinary and covers the fields of management and biology. He has brought the concepts of management ecology, innovation ecology and innovative nation. His current focus is on cross cultural management with special interest in ‘managing greyness’ as management theory and practice.
His recent research focuses on big data and artificial intelligence mechanisms, knowledge gap analysis, digital ecosystem, digitalisation transformation, world peace index and information system immunology.
Yang Zhang is a professor at Hohai University, China. He earned his PhD from Fudan University, China. He served as the Dean of the Business School at Hohai University from August 1995 to December 2014. He has held positions as President (January 2019 – March 2021) and Chairman of the China Committee (since March 2023) of IFSAM. Additionally, he is the Global Head of the Water Special Interests Group of the International Project Management Association (IPMA) since April 2023. His research interests include corporate strategy, water management culture, the “World Water Valley” strategic collaborative model, creative innovation and entrepreneurship, the “Overseas China” transnational business model, and international river cooperation development.
Baniyelme D. Zoogah (PhD – The Ohio State University) DeGroote School of Business, McMaster University, Ontario. His research is on managerial and organizational issues at the intersection of individuals, groups, organizations, and societies’ development. His primary contextual focus is Africa.
He has published in several journals including Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of International Business Studies, Academy of Management Perspectives, Academy of Management Learning and Education, Global Strategy Journal, Human Resources Management, Journal of Business Ethics, International Journal of Human Resources Management, Asia Pacific Journal of Management, and Africa Journal of Management. He has three major streams that intersect at development: strategic capabilities, strategic followership, and sustainability. He has authored books related to Africa and Strategic Followership. His paper, “Academic Athena: Writing in Africa in Management and Organization Science” won the Journal of Management History Award for Best International Paper at the 2022 Academy of Management Annual Meeting. In addition to being the Immediate Past President of the Africa Academy of Management, he was the Chair of the Awards Committee of IFSAM for two consecutive terms
Marie McHugh is Professor of Organisational Behaviour at Ulster University where she was previously Dean of the Ulster University Business School (2009-2016). Her main research interests are work stress, organisational health and organisational change, and she has published widely within these areas.
Marie is a British Academy of Management (BAM) Fellow, a Visiting Professor at Hebei Geo University (China), and she has been a Visiting Distinguished Scholar at the University of Nebraska (USA) and the University of Halmstad (Sweden). She has a PhD from Ulster University (1996), an MSc in Occupational Psychology (1985) and a BA in Psychology (1983) from Queen’s University.
In addition to her roles at Ulster University, Marie is a member of the 2021 Research Excellence Framework (REF) Panel for Business and Management Studies. She is a member of the Strategic Advisory Network of the UKRI’s Economic and Social Research Council, the UK Council of the Institute of Directors (IoD), and the IoD NI Committee. She is Editor of the Leadership and Organizational Development Journal and is a Non-Executive Director of Employers for Childcare.
Marie has been a member of the Royal Mail/Communication Workers’ Union Third Party Independent Review Team Chaired by Lord Sawyer to improve employment relations at Royal Mail. She has also served on the Council of the CBI (NI), and she has been a member of the UK Government’s Business Schools’ Taskforce, which focused on the contribution that business schools make to the development of the UK economy.
Marie has previously served as Chair and President of the British Academy of Management (BAM). In recognition of her academic leadership and contribution to business and economic development, Marie received a Special Achievement Award from the CIPD in 2014 and a Lifetime Achievement Award at the Flybe/UTV Business Awards in 2015. She was appointed an OBE in the 2020 New Years Honours for her services to higher education and business development.
Koji Okubayashi is an Emeritus Professor at Kobe University as well as at Osaka International University. He carried out research as a visiting fellow or professor at University of Wisconsin, University of California-Barley, Manchester Business School, Imperial College and Wissenschaftlich Hochschule für Unternehmengsführung. He studied attitudes of Soviet workers based on a sociological approach at the Institute of Economics of the Soviet Science Academy. As far as his experience as leader of scholarly associations is concerned, he was President of the Japan Society of Human Resource Management (JSHRM) and Vice-President of the Japan Academy of Business Administration (JABA). He has also served as a member of the Science Council of Japan for more than 21 years.
As a resource person of the Asian Productivity Organization, he studied practices of human resource management and industrial relations in Asian countries. He also gave lectures concerning the Japanese style of management to employees of overseas subsidiaries of Japanese companies as a part-time lecturer of the Association of Overseas’ Technical Support. As regards to university administration, he created the Department of Global Business Administration at Osaka International University and was its Vice-President. Moreover, he reorganized the Department of Business Administration at Setsunan University. He further served as a co-chair of the Evaluation Committee of the Independent Administrative Institution of both central and local Governments in Japan. He has collaborated with local governments as a chair of several advisory committees in the field of industrial relations problems over 25 years.
André Petit was born in Quebec City, Canada. He attended Laval University where he obtained the degrees of BSc and MSc in Industrial Relations. In July 1970, he joined the University of Sherbrooke and was granted a fellowship to go to Cornell University (Ithaca, New York) where he obtained a PhD in Industrial and Labor Relations. Andre was a member of the Faculty at the University of Sherbrooke from July 1970 to September 2009 when he retired. He was also a Visiting scholar at Laval University, Metz Management School (France) and a frequent invited scholar at Nancy Business School (from 1996 to 2010).
He has published many research articles in such journals as Industrial Relations/Relations industrielles, Academy of Management Review, Human Resource Management, and Gestion. He also was co-author of a few HR textbooks. He was the founding-president (1983-1990) of the Human Resources Professional Association of the Eastern Townships (AGRHE) a local HR association. He was also president of the Administrative Sciences Association of Canada (ASAC) (1992-1993) and President of IFSAM (1999-2000). Finally, he organized the joint ASAC-IFSAM World conference held in Montreal in 2000.