Israel Fortin

Israel Fortin

Qualifications

Phd in Management 

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

Project Management, Ecosystem Innovation, Multilateral Collaboration, Organizational Theory, Institutional Logistics, Identity Work, Visual Communication, Temporary Hybridization and Organizational design

Israel Fortin

Profile & History

Dr. Fortin is an Assistant Professor in OB&HRM at the Goa Institute of Management. He was previously an Assistant Professor at the Indian Institute of Management for four years, after completing a postdoctoral assignment at the Rotterdam School of Management, where he studied the implementation of digital platforms in port logistics. He holds a PhD in Management from HEC Montreal where he studied multilateral collaboration in aerospace.

Research & Publications

  • Fortin, I., & Oliver, D. (2016). To imitate or differentiate: Cross-level identity work in an innovation network. Scandinavian Journal of Management, 32(4), 197-208.
  • Fortin, I. (2017). Stakeholder Centrality Potential and Relational Identification in Technological Innovation Networks. In B. Ran (Ed.), Technological Innovation Networks: Collaboration and Partnership (Vol. 3, pp. 19-45): Information Age Publishing.
  • Fortin, I. (2015). Relational Identity in an Innovation Network in Aerospace: The case of the CRIAQ. Doctoral thesis, HEC Montreal, Montreal.
  • Fortin, I. (2008). The Interactional Construction of an Expert Identity: Case Study of a TV Debate. Master thesis, University of Montreal, Montreal.

Conferences

  • Fortin, I., Bhat, N. (2022). Invisible Organizational Elites, Sensemaking, and Conspiracy Theories: Toward a Continuum of Perceived Elitization. Paper to be presented at the 38th European Group for Organizational Studies Colloquium, Sub-theme 45: New Studies of Business Elites: Imperfection Writ Large, Vienna, Austria.
  • Fortin, I. (2021). The Self-sustaining Cycle of Publicly Funded University-industry Innovation Projects. Paper presented at the 37th European Group for Organizational Studies Colloquium, Sub-theme 12: Institutions, Innovation. Impact: The Role of Inter-institutional Collaboration, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
  • Fortin, I. (2020). Entrepreneurial Gravity: An Additional Metaphor of Tie Structure. Paper presented at the 80th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, Entrepreneurship Division, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
  • Fortin, I. (2019). Irony-as-Practice in Multilateral Innovation Project Cycles. Paper presented at the 79th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, Technology and Innovation Management Division, Boston, Massachusetts, United-States.
  • Fortin, I. (2018). The Shadow of Future Value Distribution: Anticipating Value Misappropriation. Paper presented at the 78th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, Technology and Innovation Management Division, Chicago, Illinois, United-States.
  • Fortin, I (2018). The Shadow of Future Value Distribution: Anticipating Value Misappropriation in Multilateral Innovation Projects. Paper presented at the 34th European Group for Organizational Studies Colloquium, Sub-theme: 52: Projects for Innovation: Managing Novelty and Uncertainty, Tallinn, Estonia.
  • Fortin, I. (2015). Cross-level Synergies and Conflicts in an Innovation Network in Aerospace. Paper presented at the 31st European Group for Organizational Studies Colloquium, Sub-theme 14: Organizational Network Research: Networks in Social and Technological Innovation, Athens, Greece.
  • Fortin, I. (2015). Cross-level Quasimimetism in an Innovation Network in Aerospace. Paper presented at the Frontiers in Managerial and Organizational Cognition Conference, Managerial and Organizational Cognition Division of the Academy of Management, Roskilde, Denmark.
  • Fortin, I. (2015). Cross-level Quasimimetism in an Innovation Network in Aerospace. Paper presented at the Second Qualitative Research Symposium, Montreal, Canada.
  • Fortin, I. (2014). Tradeoffs and Pressures to Adapt Personal and Organizational Identities in a R&D Network. Paper presented at the 74th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, Managerial and Organizational Cognition Division, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United-States.
  • Fortin, I. (2014). Cross-level Asymmetrical Interdependence: Tradeoffs and Pressures to Adapt Personal and Organizational Identities in a R&D Network. Paper presented at the Administrative Sciences Association of Canada, Organizational Theory Division, Muskoka, Ontario, Canada.
  • Fortin, I. (2014). Interdépendance Asymétrique Inter-niveaux: Compromis et Pressions d'Adaptation Identitaires Personnelles et Organisationnelles dans un Réseau de R&D. Paper presented at the 82ième Congrès de l'Association francophone pour le savoir, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
  • Fortin, I., Mailhot, C., Matt, M., & Mesny, A. (2011). University-industry Knowledge Transfer as Practice. Paper presented at the 27th European Group for Organizational Studies Colloquium, Reassembling Organization, Goteborg, Sweden.

Papers in Preparation

  • Temporal Hybridizing Practices and the Self-Sustaining Cycle of Publicly Funded Interorganizational Innovation Projects.
  • Which Logic Prevails? Intra-logic Plasticity, Inter-logic Plasticity, and Bounded Custodial Work in Temporary Organizing.
  • Cartooning the Integration of Interorganizational Coordination Logics.
  • The Process of Elitization in Organization Studies.
  • Entrepreneurial Gravity.