Professor Nassim Belbaly
Director of Birmingham City Business School, Professor of Technology & Innovation Management
Birmingham City Business School
- Email:
- Nassim.Belbaly@bcu.ac.uk
Professor Nassim Belbaly Aissa is Director of Birmingham City University and former Dean of academic affairs at the Montpellier Business School.
Professor Belbaly has more than 15 years’ experience in the tertiary sector as an Educator, Manager and a Leader. He is also still doing some consulting to both the private and public sectors, specialising in technology and Innovation impact on business, lately based on the impact of 5G.
He is very involved in supporting local business communities with a student and staff centric approach to inspire the next generation of Managers and Professionals.
Areas of Expertise
Nassim’s expertise lies in the area of Technology and Innovation Management applied to businesses, with particular focus on:
- Artificial Intelligence
- Machine learning,
- Blockchains,
- Digitalisation
- Design thinking
- Innovation Management / Open innovation / New product development
- Big data, Open data,
- Software Development, Crowdsoursing and Knowledge management systems.
Specialities
Developed more than 10 years expertise in different creatives techniques:
To create, test and develop ideas and concepts & Observe consumer behaviour:
- Context is usually Online / Offline for consumers, employees and communities
Creativity techniques using design thinking approach:
- Internal & External Crowdsourcing
- Ethnography for creative development
- Tools : Empathy maps, new concept ideation, visual thinking, prototyping, story-telling
- Business modelling ( 9 components)
- Lean start-up ( 3 components : Customer, Supply chain and Revenue)
- Problem solving Vs Need solution pair for new ideas
Qualifications
- HDR. Management Science University of Nice, France, 2010
- Ph.D. E-Business Summa Cum Laude University of Lecce, Italy, 2006
- Ph.D. E-Business Summa Cum Laude UCLA Anderson School, USA, 2004/2005
- M.S. E-Business Summa Cum Laude University of Lecce, Italy 2002
- M.S. Management Science IAE Aix-en-Provence, France 2001
- B.A. Management Science ISCAE University, Morocco 2000
Professional Training
- International Teachers Program (ITP) Kellogg School of management 2010
- MIT Executive education Technology, Operations, and Value Chain Management 2008
- Management and Leadership 2009
Memberships
Affiliations & membership:
- Academy of Management (Technology and Innovation Management Division, Organisational Communication and Information Systems Division),
- Product Development & Management Association,
- Association for Information System (AIS)
Teaching
- Advanced Innovation Management
- Research Methodology
Research
- AI, Blockchain, IoT impact on Business
- Social innovation
- Lead users
- Virtual Team Innovation
- Individual creativity
- IT impact on Business
- Software development
Postgraduate Supervision
- Nassim is accepting applications for PhD supervision in related research areas.
Publications
Journal articles
Belbaly N, Cheruy C., Robert F. (2017). OSS Popularity: Understanding the relationship between user-developer interaction, market potential and development stage, French Journal of Management Information Systems, Vol 22, 3.
Belbaly N, Somsing A. (2017). Managerial Creativity: The Roles of Dynamic Capabilities and Risk Preferences, European Management Review, vol 14, 4, p 423-437.
Khedahouria A. Belbaly N, Benbya H (2014), Exploring the impact of organizational climate factors on organizational creativity within a centralized IS, French Journal of Management Information Systems.
Khedahouria, Beldi A, Belbaly N A. (2013), The moderating effect of gender on continuance intention for mobile Internet services, French Journal of Management Information Systems.
Benbya H, Belbaly N. 2010. Understanding Developers’ Motives in Open Source Projects: A Multi-Theoretical Framework, Communications of the AIS, 27(30): 589-610.
Belbaly N. 2009. Investigating the impact of Knowledge Management Factors on New Product Development Performance. International Journal of Knowledge Management, 5(3).
Meissonier R., Houzé E. & Belbaly N. 2007.L’évolution de la résistance des acteurs dans un projet d’implantation de technologies de l’information: cas d’une PME française du secteur des hautes technologies. Revue Internationale de Gestion, 32(1): 20-28.
Meissonier R., Houzé E., Benbya H. & Belbaly N. 2006. Performance factors of a “full distance learning”: the case of undergraduate students in academic exchange. Communications of the AIS, 18: 239-258.
Benbya H. & Belbaly, N. 2005. Mechanisms for Knowledge Management Systems Effectiveness: an Exploratory Analysis. Knowledge and Process Management Journal, 12(3): 203-216.
Benbya H., Passiante G. & Belbaly N. 2004. Corporate Portal: a tool for knowledge management synchronization. International Journal of Information Management, 21: 201-220.
Benbya H. & Passiante G. & Belbaly N. 2004. Toward a Conceptual Model for Managing Customer Knowledge in a Destination Marketing System. Quarterly Journal for Electronic Commerce:167-176.
Benbya H. & Belbaly N. 2002. The “New” New Economy: Lessons Learned from the Burst of Dot Com’s Bubble, Dispelling the Myths of the New Economy. Journal of E-Business, 2(2).
Scholarly Books:
Benbya, H and Belbaly, N. (eds.) 2011, “Successful OSS Project Design and Implementation: Social Designs, Reward Structures and Coordination Methods” Gower Publishing, UK.
Book Chapters:
Meissonier R., Houzé E. & Belbaly N. 2007. The IT culture as an obstacle to the adoption of an ERP: Case of a high-tech SME. In New methods and practices for the networked society. Springer, New York.
Belbaly N. & Benbya H. 2007. A stage model for NPD process maturity and IKMS implementation. In Zha X.F.(Ed.), Artificial intelligence and integrated intelligent information systems: emerging techniques and applications: 418-437. National Institute of Standards and Technology. Hershey (US), Idea Group Publishing.
Meissonier R., Belbaly N. & Houzé E. 2007. Resistance user evolution during IT Project: a longitudinal analysis of a French high-tech SME. In Feltz F., Otjacques B., Oberweis A. & Poussing N. (Eds.), Information systems and collaboration: state of the art and perspectives: 318-329. Bonn, GI-Edition.
Belbaly N. 2007. Knowledge management infrastructure impact on NPD performance. In Knowledge management: systems implementations: lessons from the Silicon Valley.
Belbaly N. & Benbya H. 2006. Knowledge management contribution to new product development: evidence from high technology companies in the Silicon Valley. Artificial intelligence and integrated intelligent information systems: emerging techniques and applications. National Institute of Standards and Technology. Hershey (US), Idea Group Publishing.
Belbaly N., Passiante G. & Benbya H. 2004. Knowledge based destination management systems In Andrew J.F. (Ed.), Information and communication technologies in tourism. Proceedings of the International Conference in Cairo, Egypt. Springer-Verlag.
Submitted in refereed journals:
Belbaly. N, Somsing. A. “Employee Creativity: What Do We Know and Which Directions Should We Follow?” .(which journal)
Belbaly. N, “Virtual Teams creativity a Transactive Memory Systems perspective”. .(which journal)
Belbaly. N, Cheruy. C “Identifying Lead Users Online: A study of a co-creation platform”, .(which journal)
Belbaly. N,El Mezouaghi. R., Cherchia, L. “Getting external ideas to work for you: Learning from Electrolux. How you should manage broker’s relationship?”.
Belbaly. N,El Mezouaghi. R., Calin. G.“Factors influencing the quality of open ideas: Open innovation, networks and interlocking ties”.
Belbaly. N, Calin. G., “Personnel-related Determinants of the Organizational Innovation Orientation”.
Refereed Conference Proceedings:
Belbaly N. 2018. “A transactive memory systems perspective on virtual team creativity”. Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems PACIS, June 26-30, Yokohama, Japan.
Benbya H., Leidner D. & Belbaly N. 2017. “A multi-level model of employee innovation in crowdsourcing”. SIGOPEN Workshop for the International Conference on Information Systems ICIS, December 10-13, Seoul, Korea.
Belbaly N.& El Mezouaghi R. 2017. “Learning from Electrolux how to manage broker’s relationship?”. Association Information et Management AIM, May 17-19, Paris, France.
Cheruy C. & Belbaly N. 2017. “Crowdsourcing a problem: how to search for optimized ideas”. Association Information et Management AIM, May 17-19, Paris, France.
Belbaly N.2016.Virtual teams’ creativity: a transactive memory system perspective. Pre-ICIS AIM, December, Dublin, Ireland.
Belbaly N. & El Mezouaghi R. 2016. Knowledge brokers’ platforms: How to manage open innovation process? Pré-ICIS, December 9-10, Dublin, Ireland.
Belbaly. N, Somsing. A. 2016 “Knowledge sharing, Transactive memory system, and virtual team
creativity” the Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management (AOM), Anaheim, USA.
Benbya. H., Leidner D. & Belbaly. N 2016 “Marginality and Employees’ Innovative Behavior and Performance: An investigation in the context of Innovation Management Platforms” the Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management (AOM), Anaheim, USA.
Belbaly. N,El Mezouaghi. R., Calin. G. 2016 “Factors influencing the quality of open ideas: Open innovation, networks and interlocking ties”, R&D conference, Cambridge, UK.
Belbaly. N, Somsing. A. 2016 “How could knowledge sharing explain virtual team creativity?”, EGOS, Naples, Italy.
Belbaly. N, Somsing. A. 2016 “The role of transactive memory systems on virtual team creativity”, AIM, Lille, France.
Belbaly. N, Robert. F., Cheruy. C. 2016 “OSS popularity: understanding the relationship between user-developer interactions, market potential and development stage”,AIM, Lille, France.
Benbya. H, Belbaly. N. 2015 “"Explaining Transitions between Communal-and Market-based Knowledge Sharing: Collective Action to Resolve Uncertainty", AMCIS, Puerto Rico, USA
Belbaly. N, Somsing. A. 2015 “Creative behavior: The roles of employee's risk preferences", the Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management (AOM), Vancouver, Canada.
Belbaly. N, Somsing. A. 2015. “The Bright Side of Virtual Team Challenges: Their Benefits for Creativity”, Mai, AIM, Rabat, Morocco.
Cheruy. C., Belbaly. N. 2015,“Effects of IT Tools and Motivational Factors on Leadership Style and Creativity of Consumers”, Mai, AIM, Rabat, Morocco.
Belbaly. N, Somsing. A, Cheruy. C. 2014 “How Do Managers Cope with their Creative Behavior?”, September, Strategic Management Society, Madrid, Spain.
Belbaly. N, Cheruy C., 2014, “Lead Users characteristics: A study of online Lead Users detection”, August, 12th Annual Open and User Innovation Conference, Boston, USA
Belbaly. N, Cheruy C., 2014, “Involve customers in problem-solving process: how to catch the right customer?”, August, 12th Annual Open and User Innovation Conference, Boston, USA
Belbaly. N, Cheruy C., 2014, “Exploring the Online VS Offline Lead users detection”,July, EGOS, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
Cheruy. C., Belbaly. N, Somsing. A, Bourdon, I. 2014,“Ideation platform, new tool to co-create”, Mai, AIM, Aix en Provence, France.
Khedhaouria, A and Belbaly, N, 2011. Organizational creativity climate factors: lessons learned from the French Energy Management Industry. European Conference on Information Systems.
Belbaly N. & Robert F. 2010. Improved alignment with co-evolutionary principles. HICSS, 43 rd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, January 5-8, Koloa, Kauai, Hawaii, US.
Belbaly N., Robert F. & Le Roy F. 2009. Co-opetition between firms and OSS community. International Workshop on Co-opetition and Entrepreneurship, June 25-26, Montpellier, France.
Belbaly N. & Robert F. 2009. Improved alignment with co-evolutionary principles: A case OSS. VI Conference of the Italian Association for Information Systems, October 2-3, Costa Smeralda, Italy.
Belbaly N. & Robert F. 2009. IS Alignment improved with co-evolutionary principles. 14ème colloque de l’Association Information et Management (AIM), June 10 -12, Marrakech, Morocco.
Benbya H., Cooper L. & Belbaly N. 2008. Knowledge management for creativity and innovation. 41st Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-41), January 7-10, Big Island, Hawaii, USA.
Belbaly N. & Bourdon I. 2007. Empirical investigation of the impact of knowledge management system quality on the competitive advantage. 16ème Conférence de l’Association Internationale de Management Stratégique (AIMS), 7-9 juin, Montréal, Canada.
Houzé E. & Belbaly N. 2007. Étude empirique de l’effet de la création de connaissances sur le processus de développement de nouveaux produits. 16ème Conférence de l’Association Internationale de Management Stratégique (AIMS), 7-9 juin, Montréal, Canada.
Houzé E. & Belbaly N. 2007. Étude empirique de l’effet de la création de connaissances sur le processus de développement de nouveaux produits. 16ème Conférence de l’Association Internationale de Management Stratégique (AIMS), 7-9 juin, Montréal, Canada.
Benbya H., Belbaly N. & Meissonier R. 2007. Etude empirique sur le comportement des développeurs et son impact sur le développement de logiciels open source. Association Information et Management (AIM), June 18-19, Lausanne, Switzerland.
Belbaly N. & Meissonier R. 2007. The Evolution of User Resistance to Change in SME’s. Academy of Management (AOM), August 3-8,Philadelphia, US.
Belbaly N., Benbya H. & Meissonier R. 2007. An empirical investigation of the customer Knowledge creation impact on NPD Performance. Hawaii International Conference System Science (HICSS), January 7-10, Waikoloa, Big Island Hawaii.
Meissonier R., Houzé E. & Belbaly N. 2006. The IT culture as an obstacle to the adoption of an ERP: Case of a high-tech SME. International Conference on Information Systems Development, August 31 – September 2, Budapest, Hungary.
Meissonier R., Houzé E., Belbaly N. & Missonier S. 2006. L’évolution de la résistance des acteurs dans un projet d’implantation de technologies de l’information : cas d’une étude longitudinale auprès d’une PME high-tech. Association Information et Management (AIM), June 7-9, Luxemburg, Luxemburg.
Belbaly N. 2005. Knowledge Management Systems impact on NPD performance. San Diego International System Conference (SICS), USA.
Belbaly N. 2005. Doctoral Consortium of the Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management (AOM), Hawaii, US.
Belbaly N. 2005. Knowledge Management Systems and NPD performance: An integrated approach. San Diego International Systems Conference (SICS), July.
Belbaly N. & Passiante G. & Benbya H. 2004. Knowledge Based Destination Management Systems. International Federation for Information Technology and Tourism (IFITT), Cairo, Egypt.
Belbaly N. & Passiante G. & Benbya H. 2003. The Knowledge based E-Business decision model. Advanced International Summer School on “New Approaches to Strategic Management”, Ostuni, Italy.
Benbya H. & Belbaly N. & Passiante G. 2003. Knowledge Management Systems Mechanisms for success: some empirical evidence. Proceeding of the XIV Scientific Meeting of the AIIG, Entrepreneurship and Managerial Competencies, Bergamo, Italy.
Other Publications:
Belbaly N. 2010. L’approche du design science au service de la recherche en systèmes d’information. HDR dissertation (University Nice-Sophia Antipolis, France).
Belbaly N. 2006. Knowledge management systems & new product development performance: an integrative approach. PhD in E-Business, University of Lecce, Italy.