Dr. Israel Fortin is an Assistant Professor of OB&RM at the Goa Institute of Management, having previously held a similar position for four years at the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore. He specializes in multilateral project management in international ecosystems, and currently studying the collaboration between the formal and informal sectors in plastic recycling in India.

He previously studied digitalization projects in port logistics during a postdoctoral assignment at the Rotterdam School of Management and holds a PhD in Management from HEC Montreal. His PhD thesis concerned multilateral innovation in aerospace and his ongoing work focuses on the study of collaborative innovation, temporary organizing, and logic hybridization, utilizing qualitative methods that include verbal, textual, and visual analysis.

Peer-reviewed articles

• Fortin, I., Lehtonen, M. (2025). Showing how you found Waldo: Navigating visual messiness by distilling visual patterns into icons. International Journal of Qualitative Methods, 24. (SJR: Q1)
• Fortin, I. (2025). Facteurs de Succès des Initiatives de Changement Organisationnel (Success factors of organizational change management initiatives). Ordre des Conseillers en Ressources Humaines Agréés.
• Fortin, I. (2024). Logic Plasticity and Bounded Custodial Work in Inter-institutional Projects. Journal of Management Inquiry, 33(2). (ABDC: A)
• Fortin, I., Søderlund, J. (2023). So Many Projects, So Little Result: The Self-Sustaining Cycle of Inter-institutional Projects. International Journal of Project Management, 41(4). (ABDC: A)
• 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. (ABDC: B)

Pedagogical cases

• Fortin, I. (2025). Inclusive Transition in Informal Plastic Recycling in Bangalore. International Journal of Case Studies in Management, 23(2).
• Fortin, I. (2024). The Challenge of Synchromodality in the Port of Rotterdam. Case Research Journal, 43(4).

• Fortin, I., Bhat, N. (2022). Invisible Organizational Elites, Sensemaking, and Conspiracy Theories: Toward a Continuum of Perceived Elitization. Paper to be presented at the 38^th 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 37^th 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 78^th 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 34^th 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 31^st 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 74^th 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 27^th European Group for Organizational Studies Colloquium, Reassembling Organization, Goteborg, Sweden.

• 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.