I am an Assistant Professor in Organization Studies. Prior to joining ESCP, I worked at the University of Liverpool and HEC Montreal, and I earned my PhD from La Sorbonne University and ESCP.

My research interests include sensemaking, communication (especially with a CCO perspective), intuition, embodiment, and inventive qualitative research methods. More recently, I have also developed research projects on legacy transmission in family businesses, and on founders and the imprint they leave on their organizations. 

Overall, I have a genuine passion for discursive and conversational analysis, and I am empirically interested in artistic organizations (e.g., filmmaking, haute cuisine), as well as extreme contexts (e.g., firefighters, hospitals).

I welcome enquiries from prospective PhD students interested in researching topics such as sensemaking, embodiment, and language.

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Conference Proceedings

2022

MEZIANI, N., L. CABANTOUS, J. CORNELISSEN

Conceptualizing Novel Roles of Metaphors: A Discursive Perspective on Intuitive Decision-Making

Academy of Management (AOM)

Conference Proceedings

2022

MEZIANI, N., L. CABANTOUS

Sensemaking in adversity: Navigating the unknown with embodied resources

International Symposium on Process Organization Studies

Conference Presentations

2021

MEZIANI, N., V. SERGI, A. LANGLEY, J. BASQUE

Enrolling the Past to Orient the Future by Presentifying Deceased Founders

European Group for Organizational Studies (EGOS)

Academic Articles

2020

LANGLEY, A., N. MEZIANI

Making Interviews Meaningful

JOURNAL OF APPLIED BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE, 56, 370-391

Academic Articles

2020

LANGLEY, A., N. MEZIANI, C. AUGER

Ces fantômes qui rôdent en entreprise

GESTION - REVUE INTERNATIONALE DE GESTION (HEC MONTREAL), 45, 34

Academic Articles

2020

MEZIANI, N., L. CABANTOUS

Acting intuition into sense: How film crews make sense with embodied ways of knowing

JOURNAL OF MANAGEMENT STUDIES, 57,7, 1384-1419

Chapters

2020

MEZIANI, N.

Talking intuitions into existence: the role of ventriloquism figures

In: Handbook of Intuition Research as Practice, Marta Sinclair Edward Elgar Publishing, 271-281