Ilham Bensouna

Ilham Bensouna

Assistant professor

  • EH14 4AS

    United Kingdom

Accepting PhD Students

20192025

Research activity per year

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Biography

Ilham Bensouna is an Assistant Professor of Strategy and Enterprise, specializing in strategy. Her research interest sits at the intersection of strategy, organization theory, and sustainability management. During her PhD, she explored the formation of organizational identity within an innovation intermediary in the construction sector. Following this, she pursued a postdoctoral fellowship at the IREGE laboratory (Universite Savoie Mont Blanc), investigating the corporate social responsibility (CSR) journey of French and Swiss hotels in the hospitality sector. Now in her faculty role, she teaches Strategic Management and leads Management in a Global Context, bridging academic insights with real-world applications in strategy.

Being awarded a grant, she researches sustainable business model innovation in Scotland, further strengthening her industry engagement. She is also supervising a PhD student exploring digital transformation and she has presented her research at leading academic conferences.

Research interests

Area of Expertise : Strategy, corporate social responsibility
Research Methods Expertise : qualitative methodology, ethnography, mixed methods
Disciplinary Intersections : organisational identity formation, sustainability transition

Research Grants and Projects

Ongoing seed funded project on sustainable business model innovation

Roles & Responsibilities

Campus leader : Strategic Management (C19BU)

Global campus leader : Management in a global context (C17EB)

Member of the research ethics committee

2nd PhD supervisor : Ghaith Shamayleh (digital transformation), Jasim Aal Muhammad (dynamic capabilities)

Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals

In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):

  • SDG 9 - Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure
  • SDG 11 - Sustainable Cities and Communities

Keywords

  • H Social Sciences (General)

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