Practice informed by research. Research grounded in practice.
What we deliver rests on doctoral work, postgraduate teaching and institutional projects carried out over two decades. This page collects that record.
Research and writing
Work on how entrepreneurial capability is actually learned.
The research question behind the firm: what makes practice-based and action-learning approaches work — or fail — inside universities, incubators and organisations.
- DoctorateEntrepreneurship learning in higher education. Doctoral research on how practice-based and action-learning approaches develop the entrepreneurial competencies of students enrolled in entrepreneurship programmes. Doctorate held jointly through Business School Netherlands and Sheffield Hallam University, in entrepreneurship and collaborative learning.
- AppliedAction learning as a practice-based approach for leveraging entrepreneurs' potential. Applied work on incubation and pre-incubation in universities, drawing on social learning theory, positioning theory and action learning theory.
- In progressAre entrepreneurs born or made? An empirical analysis using AI-driven natural language processing.
- ProfileResearchGate · LinkedIn
Teaching and academic roles
Twenty years of practice, taught at postgraduate level.
Teaching keeps the method honest: every model has to survive a room of managers who will test it against their own week.
- LecturerLecturer and coach at ESAA — the Algerian School of Business, in partnership with Audencia and IAE.
- FacultyLecturer and coach at the Business School Netherlands Algeria campus, on the International Action Learning MBA.
- FounderFounder and Director of the Action Learning Institute, a Business School Netherlands service provider in Algeria, and Founder of WIAL Algeria.
- FacilitationCertified facilitator and coach training in entrepreneurship, in the World Institute for Action Learning tradition.
Speaking and events
In the room where the ecosystem is being built.
Panels, competitions and capacity-building programmes with universities, incubators and public institutions.
Universities and private incubators
Two-day collaborative sessions for university and private incubators in Algeria, hosted by the ministry responsible for startups and micro-enterprises: ground diagnosis, benchmarks and research-based practice.
International organisations
Employability and entrepreneurship projects delivered with international organisations including the International Labour Organization.
Panels and competitions
Conference panels on online and experiential learning, and jury and mentoring roles in national innovation and startup competitions.
Latest expert perspective
3 September 2026 · Dr Mohamed Yacine
Silent Action Learning and the Visibility–Protection Gap
Dr Mohamed Yacine examines how two studies by Sid Ahmed El Hebri Harid explain the movement of learning and operational truth into safer lateral or shadow channels.
Press, events and recognition
Where the work has been seen and heard.
Media appearances, conference panels, juries and institutional programmes. Newest first.
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2024
The International Action Learning MBA in Algeria
Interview on what the programme offers managers and entrepreneurs, and on why action learning transfers differently in a hierarchical setting.
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2024
Capacity building for university and private incubators
Two-day collaborative sessions for incubator teams in Algeria, hosted under the authority responsible for startups and micro-enterprises: ground diagnosis, benchmarks and research-based practice.
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2023
Online and experiential learning at ICT Maghreb
Panel appearance on how experiential formats change what participants retain, at the regional technology exhibition.
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Ongoing
Juries and mentoring in national startup competitions
Jury member and mentor in innovation and entrepreneurship competitions supporting early stage founders.
Jury
References
The tradition this work belongs to.
Action Learning is a documented discipline with a founder, a literature and institutions. These are the sources, not our summaries of them.
- Action learningThe method, its cycle and its literature Wikipedia
- Reg RevansThe originator of Action Learning and of L = P + Q Wikipedia
- International Labour OrganizationPartner on employability and entrepreneurship work ilo.org
- Sheffield Hallam UniversityDoctoral research partner shu.ac.uk
- Business School NetherlandsAction Learning MBA and doctoral programme bsn.eu
- ResearchGatePublications and working papers researchgate.net
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