Mustapha BELKHOUJA is a full professor in the department of "Management Technology and Strategy" at Grenoble Ecole de Management. He received his Ph. D. in Economics from Université de la Méditerranée (GREQAM) in 2010. He worked as an assistant professor for one year at the Faculty of Economics and Management of Sousse (Tunisia) and then joined Grenoble Ecole de Management in 2012.
He teaches mainly quantitative methods for strategic decision-making and strategic management. Since 2019, he is the leader of The “Entrepreneurship and Innovation” research team.
His research is at the intersection of innovation and strategy, focusing on Science of Science, Open Innovation, Knowledge Management, team collaboration, knowledge recombination and diffusion, and international business. His work has appeared in Research Policy, Economic Modelling, Strategic Organization, M@n@gement, Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Journal of Product Innovation Management, International Business Review, and Industrial Marketing Management, among others.
- Knowledge Management
- Collaborative Innovation
- Innovation Management
- Internationalisation Strategies
- Hyungseok D. Y., Belkhouja M., Dau L., 2025.Privacy protection laws, national culture, and artificial intelligence innovation around the worldJournal of International Business Studies, 56, 7: 853–873A substantial body of research highlights how stringent regulations disrupt innovators’ incentives and increase transaction costs, yet their information processing implication remains understudied. Building on information processing theory, we study how the interplay between formal and informal institutions shapes inventors’ information processing in developing artificial intelligence (AI) innovation. We examine the effect of stringent privacy regulations on AI innovation by exploiting the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) announcement. We argue that, following the GDPR announcement, GDPR-affected countries experience lower national AI innovation rates than unaffected countries. Further, we postulate that this negative effect is weaker in GDPR-affected countries, marked by higher levels of individualism, masculinity, and indulgence, but stronger in the affected countries with higher levels of uncertainty avoidance, power distance, and long-term orientation. Our difference-in-differences analysis supports the proposed framework. Our research contributes to the international business literature by developing novel theoretical predictions at the intersection of comparative institutional analysis and national culture, explaining how privacy protection laws and cultural factors shape AI inventors’ information processing. Finally, this study provides insights into how inventors and entrepreneurs in countries with stringent privacy laws can leverage national culture to shape their AI innovation strategies and inform strategic decision-making.
- Abada I., Belkhouja M., Ehrenmann A., 2025.On the valuation of legacy power production in liberalized markets via option-pricingEuropean Journal of Operational Research, 322, 3: 1005-1024
- Belkhouja M., Belkhouja S., Bote R., 2024.The social construction of healthcare: A qualitative exploration of home hospitalization as a transformative healthcare model40th EGOS Colloquium, EGOS, Milan, Italy
- Belkhouja M., Hyungseok D. Y., Benischke M., Hong J., 2024.Social movement and global R&D: Evidence from the Arab Spring84th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, Academy of Management, Chicago, United States of America
- Belkhouja M., Hyungseok D. Y., Benischke M., Hong J., 2024.Social Movement and Global R&D: Evidence from the Arab SpringAIB annual meeting, Academy of International Business, Séoul, South Korea
- Belkhouja M., Hyungseok D. Y., Dau L., 2024.Privacy law, national culture, and artificial intelligence innovation around the world0th AIB UK & Ireland Chapter Conference “International Business in Evolution: Disruptions, Transformations and New Internationalisation Trends”, Academy of International Business, Birmingham, United Kingdom
- Belkhouja M., Benischke M., Hong J., Hyungseok D. Y., 2024.Social Movement and Global R&D: Evidence from the Arab SpringAIB MENA Conference 2024 : nnovating for Sustainability in a Global and Digital World, AIB, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
- Hyungseok D. Y., Belkhouja M., Dau L., 2023.GDPR and artificial intelligence innovation: the moderating role of national cultureDRUID Conference, DRUID Society, Lisbonne, Portugal
- Belkhouja S., Hyungseok D. Y., Belkhouja M., 2023.Exploring the duality of managers’ attenion on new product innovation processDRUID Conference, DRUID Society, Lisbonne, Portugal
- Belkhouja M., Yoon H. D., Maon F., 2022.Tell me where you belong, I might cite your work: Affiliation origins, legitimation efforts, and the citation of team-produced research in business and management scholarshipM@n@gement , 25, 1: 49-65Drawing from the country-of-origin literature, this study theorizes the effect of academic affiliation origins on the academic impact of knowledge produced by teams of researchers. Our econometric analysis employing more than 65,000 peer-reviewed articles published from 1997 to 2012 in business and management journals reveals that the higher the share of co-authors with peripheral affiliations (i.e. the proportion of authors in a research team not affiliated with a US or UK institution), the lower is the number of citations their articles receive on average. Despite the globalization of knowledge production, the results show that scholars’ geographic location still plays an influential role in knowledge diffusion processes, conditioning gains, or setbacks with respect to the academic impact of their work. We further show that scholars on the periphery of global scholarship can reduce this negative effect by developing ‘targeting’ and ‘framing’ legitimation efforts reflected in the composition of the team they are part of and in the positioning of the knowledge it produces.
