Sihem JOUINI

Associate Professor

Information Systems and Operations Management

Biography

Sihem BenMahmoud-Jouini is an associate professor of innovation in the ISOM department (Information Systems and Operations Management) and researcher at GREGHEC since January 2006. She teaches project management, new product development processes and management of innovation in Executive Education, Exec MBA, MBA and Masters. She is scientific director of the MS X-HEC Entrepreneurs, of the Project Innovation Design (PIC) major and of the Entrepreneurship & Innovation major (Executive MBA).

Her research focuses on the management of breakthrough innovations, the organization of exploration and the development processes of new products. It deals with how to develop breakthrough innovations which renew the activity of the firm ? How to learn from exploration projects and how to organize them?

She is also interested in the role of design in innovating and transforming organizations.

She has published several research articles (Journal of Product Innovation Management, Creativity Innovation Management, International Journal of Project management, Finance Contrôle Stratégie, Industrial Marketing Management, International Journal of Technology Management, Management International, International Journal of Innovation Management, Research Technology Management , Revue Française de Gestion, etc.) and has contributed to several books (Doing research in project management, Innovation based competition and design systems dynamics, From idea to market, Great authors in innovation management, etc. ). She has also edited several books (Management of Innovation and Globalization, Management of disruptive innovations, Networks: strategic and organizational dimensions, Co-design and interaction knowledge, etc.).

She regularly participates in the following conferences: AIMS, International Association of Strategic Management; AoM, Academy Of Management; BCERC, Babson College Entrepreneurship Research Conference; EGOS, European Group of Organizational Studies; EURAM, European Academy of Management; IPDMC, International Product Development Conference; IRNOP, International Research Network on Organizing by Projects, etc).

Sihem BenMahmoud-Jouini graduated from Ecole Centrale Lille as an engineer. After experience in a design office, she opted for an academic career. She obtained a DEA in Scientific Methods of Management and a doctorate from the University of Paris 9 Dauphine. She carried out her research at the Management Research Center of the Ecole Polytechnique (CRG) where she is still an associate researcher. She was a lecturer at the University of Paris 11 where she supervised the master's degree in Management Sciences. She has been visiting Stern Business School (NYU) and Babson College.

She held the Innovation and Globalization Chair (Orange) and the Innovation Management in Aeronautics Chair (Safran).

She intervened, as part of her research at the Assistance Publique des Hôpitaux de Paris, Vinci, Incuballiance, Ministry of Equipment, Thales, Valeo, Air Liquide, Essilor, Danone, Orange, etc.

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Scientific articles

‘I’d Give My Right Arm to Be Ambidextrous’: Exploration Unit Managers Facing Competing Demands for Differentiation and Integration

M@n@gement, 15 October 2024, vol. 27, n° e9627, (in coll. with C. Gibert)

Practicing secrecy in open innovation – The case of a military firm

Research Policy, January 2023, vol. 52, n° 1, pp 104626, (in coll. with J. Langlois, R. Servajean-Hilst)

Un réservoir de ressources illimitées pour construire le monde d’après

Le journal de l'école de Paris du management, January-February 2023, vol. 159, n° 1, pp 37-44, (in coll. with T. PARIS, M.-L. Rigal, A. BUSSON, D. Centlivre, M. Berry)

Building design as a dynamic capability: A model for design integration

Journal of Product Innovation Management, September 2023, vol. 40, n° 5, pp 733-758, (in coll. with J. Sahakian)

When cultures collide: What can we learn from frictions in the implementation of design thinking?

Journal of Product Innovation Management, January 2022, vol. 39, n° 1, pp 44-65, (in coll. with L. Carlgren)

Integration of an exploration program with its parent organization: A lifecycle perspective

International Journal of Project Management, July 2022, vol. 40, n° 5, pp 587-597, (in coll. with F. Charue-Duboc)

Vertical innovation partnerships and relational performance: The mediating role of trust, interdependence, and familiarity

Industrial Marketing Management, August 2021, vol. 97, pp 84-96, (in coll. with R. Servajean-Hilst, C. Donada)

Imprinting of founders' entrepreneurial motivations on enterprises' practices and processes: The context of creative industries

Creativity and Innovation Management, March 2021, vol. 30, n° 1, pp 182-197, (in coll. with C. Abecassis-Moedas, D. Manceau, J. Pereira)

Créez le prochain Uber et soyez rentables d’ici la fin de l’année

Revue Française de Gestion, 2020, vol. 1, n° 286, pp 35-55, (in coll. with C. GIBERT)

Introduction numéro spécial Innovations, Espaces et Territoires

Finance Contrôle Stratégie, 2020, n° NS-9, pp 1-4, (in coll. with F. Charue-Duboc, T. PARIS)

Books

Transform with Design: Creating New Innovation Capabilities with Design Thinking

University of Toronto Press 2023 (in coll. with J. SCHWEITZER, S. FIXSON )

Management de l'Innovation et Globalisation : Enjeux et pratiques contemporains

Dunod 2015 (in coll. with F. CHARUE-DUBOC, C. MIDLER )

Les Réseaux : Dimensions Organisationnelles et Stratégiques (Ed. en coll. avec C. Voisin, S. Edouard)

Editions Economica 2004

Co-conception et savoirs d'interaction

Plan Urbanisme Construction Architecture (PUCA) 2003

L'ingénierie concourante dans le bâtiment

Editions du Plan Construction et Architecture 1996 (in coll. with C. Midler )

Chapters in edited books

Clayton M. Christensen, Les innovations de rupture : défis et principes de management

Les Grands Auteurs En Management De L'Innovation Et De La Créativité, T. Burger-Helmchen, C. Hussler, P. Cohendet, EMS Editions, 77-94

Innovation projects in a global world: bridging global innovation management and project management

Handbook On Innovation And Project Management, A. Davies, S. Lenfle, C. H. Loch, C. Midler, Edward Elgar Publishing, 1 , 149-166

The contribution of design thinking to complex project organizing

Research Handbook On Complex Project Organizing, Graham M. Winch, Maude Brunet, Dongping Cao, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2 , 158-171

Le management des mégaprojets : les leçons de l’expérience

Le Grand Paris Express - Les Enjeux Économiques Et Urbains, J-C. PRAGER, Editions Economica, 387-419

Les modèles économiques des espaces collaboratifs d’innovation

Innovation Et Participation, Approches Critiques, B. Laurent, M. Baker, V. Beaudouin et N. Raulet-Croset, Transvalor - Presses des Mines, 2 , 109-130

Clayton Christensen : les innovations de rupture, défis et principes de management

Les Grands Auteurs En Management De L'Innovation Et De La Créativité, T. Burger-Helmchen, C. Hussler, P. Cohendet, EMS Management et Sociétés

Towards a Comprehensive Model of Sustainable Family Firm Performance

Handbbook Of Research On Family Business (2Nd Ed.), K. Smyrnios, P. Poutziouris, S. Goel eds., Edward Elgar Publishing

Processus entrepreneurial et processus d'apprentissage : Comment les start-up apprennent-elles ?

Innovation Et Création D'Entreprise - De L'Idée À L'Organisation, A. Bloch, S. Morin-Delerm (eds), ESKA, 47-65

Conjuguer management des projets et management des connaissances

Capital Immatériel : Connaissance Et Performance, A. Bounfour (Ed.), Editions L'Harmattan

Pratiques de projet en conception : L'interaction entre la conception du produit et du process

Maîtres D'Ouvrage, Maître D'Oeuvre Et Entreprises. De Nouveaux Enjeux Pour Les Pratiques De Projet, J. J. Terrin (Ed.), Eyrolles

Proceedings

Design as a Dynamic Capability : A Capability Building Framework

2021 Academy of Management Annual Conference , 2021 , 2021 , 1 (J. SAHAKIAN)

The Deployment of Reverse Innovations: Adaptations from Emerging to Advanced Markets

"I did it my way", the adoption of design thinking by a technology driven firm

2018 R&D management conference, 2nd - 4th July , 2018 , Milan (S. FIXSON)

«Créez le prochain UBER et soyez rentable d’ici la fin de l’année » : Les laboratoires d’innovation face aux contradictions entre mandat et gouvernance

27ème conférence de l'AIMS, 6-8 juin , 2018 , Montpellier (C. GIBERT)

Working papers

Design as a Dynamic Capability : A Building Capability Framework

Cahier de Recherche du Groupe HEC , 2021

Secrecy in Open Innovation and Open Innovation in Secrecy

Cahier de Recherche du Groupe HEC , 2020

Staffing a blending call center with uncertain arrival rates

Mimeo , 2009