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Michel Leseure
Lecturer in Operations Management

Michel joined IBS in June 2008 as a lecturer in operations management. Michel first graduated with a mechanical engineering degree from France before studying business in the United States (MBA) and operations management in the UK (PhD, University of Sheffield).

Michel has worked for Loughborough University, Al Akhawayn University (Morocco), Aston Business School, and Plymouth Business School before joining IBS.

Michel’s research interests are:

  1. organisations and technology as naturally evolving systems,
  2. effective means of organisational control and performance management, and
  3. knowledge management and learning.

He has worked on EPSRC projects focusing on the building of evolutionary classifications of manufacturing systems and on project knowledge management. Michel was trained to conduct systematic literature reviews, and as a lead AIM scholar, worked on a review of why British firms find to difficult to implement successfully best practices.

Recent Publications:

  • Leseure. M. 2008. “Exploration versus exploitation in island economies: a brand diagnostic perspective”, International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Small Business, Special Issue on Island Brands and Island Branding, Vol. 5, No. 6, In Press.
  • Driouchi, T., Leseure, M., Bennett, D. 2009. “A robustness framework for monitoring real options under uncertainty”, Omega, The International Journal of Management Science, Vol. 37, No. 3, pp. 698-710.
    Leseure, M. 2008. “Offshore Factories and Economic Development: Is there a Path from Sweatshops to Indigenous Innovation?”, Journal of African Business, Special Issue on Management in Africa, Vol. 9. No. 1, pp. 145-165.
  • Decter, M., D. Bennett, and M. Leseure. 2007. “University to business technology transfer—UK and USA comparisons”, Technovation, Vol. 27, No. 3, pp.145-155.
  • Leseure, M., J. Bauer, K. Birdi, A. Neely and D. Denyer. 2004. “Adoption of promising practices: a systematic review of the evidence”, International Journal of Management Reviews, Vol 6, No ¾, pp. 169-190.

To contact Michel:

T: +44 (0) 1624 693713
F: +44 (0) 1624 665095
E: m.leseure@ibs.ac.im