Waleed OMRI Research Active Faculty - Associate Professor
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    • Department
      Strategy Department
    • Languages
      Arabic, French, English
    • Teaching specialisations
      Entrepreneurship, Corporate Strategy, Innovation Management
    • Areas of research
      Entrepreneurship and Innovation, Sustainable Development, SME Management, Family Firms Strategy
    • Campus
      La Rochelle

    Biography

    Dr. Waleed OMRI is an associate professor in entrepreneurship and strategy at Excelia Business School (France) since July 2023. He holds a PhD degree from the University of Limoges (France) in Management science specialized in Entrepreneurship. He has significant teaching experience with wide variety of institutions (NEOMA Business School, EDC Paris Business School, ISEM & AES, University of Montpellier, IAE Besaçon, University of Franche-Comté) at the undergraduate and graduate levels.

    His research spans across the fields of entrepreneurial and innovative behaviors, sustainable entrepreneurship, and strategic orientations of family firms. His research work has been published in several international journals, such as in Journal of Business Ethics, IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, European Journal of International Management, Journal of International Entrepreneurship, RIPME, among others.

  • 2013

    PhD in Management Sciences, Université de Limoges, France

    2009

    Research Master in Economic and Financial Dynamics, Sfax University, Tunisia

  • 2023

    Research Active Faculty - Associate Professor, Excelia, La Rochelle, France

    2022-2023

    Co-manager Erasmus+ Project, EDC Business School, Paris, , France

    2022-2023

    Head of Entrepreneurship Department, EDC Business School, Paris, , France

    2019-2023

    Associate Professor in Entrepreneurship & Strategy, EDC Business School, Paris, , France

    2018-2021

    Head of the E-Business & Digital Transformation master's degree, EDC Business School, Paris, , France

    2017-2021

    Co-head of Entrepreneurship Department, EDC Business School, Paris, , France

    2015-2019

    Assistant Professor in Entrepreneurship & Strategy, EDC Business School, Paris, , France

  • Journal articles

    OMRI, W., YEZZA, H., MEJRI, I. (2024). L'impact du capital social sur la performance des PME familiales : Le rôle modérateur de l'implication familiale dans la direction et des conflits entre les membres de la famille. Revue Internationale PME, 37 (2), 130–151.
    TIBA, S., OMRI, W., CHISHTI , M. Z. (2024). Assessing the role of risk-driven entrepreneurial actions in achieving sustainable development goals 1 and 2 in Africa: does democracy matter? Journal of Entrepreneurship and Public Policy, 13 (4), pp. 669-693.
    OMRI, W., CHEFFOU, A. I., SENER, P. (2023). The missing link between governance factors and entrepreneurial internationalisation of family SMEs: an empirical analysis for an emerging economy. European Journal of International Management, 20 (4), 550 - 575. doi:10.1504/EJIM.2020.10025079.
    OMRI, W., COURRENT, J.-M., NEMEH, A. (2023). To go or to not go green for SMEs: Toward the twinning effect of eco-design practices and radical innovativeness on SME performance. IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management. doi:10.1504/EJIM.2023.132434.
    OMRI, W., YEZZA, H., BECUWE, A. (2023). La détection d’opportunités internationales dans un environnement incertain : Le rôle des capacités digitales et de l’agilité organisationnelle des PME. Revue Internationale des PME, 36 (3-4), 36-61.
    BECUWE, A., OMRI, W., CHALAMON, I., AMRI, A. (2023). Développer la spiritualité au travail pour favoriser la performance individuelle au travail. Revue Recherche en Sciences de Gestion, 5 (158), pp. 275 - 305.
    OMRI, W., ALEXIS CATANZARO, A. (2023). Beyond the International Entrepreneurial Orientation–International Performance Nexus: Early or Late Internationalisation of SMEs? Journal of Enterprising Culture.
    COURRENT, J.-M., OMRI, W. (2022). Closing the Gap Between Stakeholder Pressure and SME Owner-Managers’ Commitment to Sustainability: Does the Business Case Logic Matter? Journal of Enterprising Culture, 30 (04), 401-430. doi:10.1142/S0218495822500133.
    BECUWE, A., OMRI, W., CHALAMON, I., AMRI, A., KOVALEV, S. (2022). Fostering Innovative Workplace Behaviour through Employee Recognition: The Mediating Role of Helping Behaviour. Journal of Innovation Economics, N° 37 (1), 177-204. doi:10.3917/jie.pr1.0105.
    OMRI, W. (2019). Book review: Entrepreneurial universities: Collaboration, education and policies João Ferreira, Alain Fayolle, Vanessa Ratten et al. (eds). International Small Business Journal, 37 (1), 89-90. doi:10.1177/0266242618787957.
    COURRENT, J.-M., CHASSÉ, S., OMRI, W. (2018). Do Entrepreneurial SMEs Perform Better Because They are More Responsible? Journal of Business Ethics, 153 (2), 317-336. doi:10.1007/s10551-016-3367-4.
    RANDERSON, K., OMRI, W., BECUWE, A. (2017). Unravelling the link between creativity and individual entrepreneurial behaviour: the moderating role of Islamic Work Ethics. International Entrepreneurship Journal and Small Business, 30 (4), 567. doi:10.1504/IJESB.2017.10003387.

    Chapters

    OMRI, W. (2018). Individual innovativeness, entrepreneurial creativity and religious capital: The role of Transformational entrepreneurship in Tunisia?. In Ratten, V., Jones P. (Ed), Transformational Entrepreneurship. Routledge.
  • Published cases with instructional materials

    ATIF KHAN, M., DOUYON, R., OMRI, W. (2021). Responsibility Plus (International buying office): Ethical Dilemma in textile supply chain. CCMP, R0017(GB).

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