Laurent Beduneau-Wang

Assistant Professor, Africa Business School, University Mohammed VI Polytechnic (Rabat, Morocco), Associate Researcher, UMR G-EAU (Montpellier, France)

Business-Government Relations, African business history, Agribusiness, Business Schools
Business Historians at Business Schools

Dr. Laurent Béduneau-Wang, Assistant Professor Strategy, Organization & Business History at Africa Business School (ABS), University Mohammed VI Polytechnic (UM6P) and Associate Researcher at UMR G-EAU (Montpellier, France), wrote his Ph.D. paper on “The Value of Water and Performance Indicators: Strategic & Organizational Tensions in Water Industry (1853-2017)” (Ecole Polytechnique – Paris-Saclay University). He has done postdocs at Ecole Polytechnique (Paris), Mines ParisTech and HEC Montreal. He has lectured at HEC Paris, CentraleSupélec, Mines ParisTech and Agro ParisTech. In 2018-2019, he was a member of the Steering Committee for the International Congress of French Business History. He edited and co-wrote « Is China a financial giant?” (Vuibert, 2006 – in French: “La Chine: un colosse financier?”) and “French financial system” (Economics and Management Publishing House, Pékin, 2007 – in Chinese: “Faguo Jinrong Tixie”).

Service to the BHC

Kerr Prize Committee 2023 - 2026 [Chair 2024 - 2025]

Recent Conference Participation

2026 BHC Meeting: Presenter, "Collective granaries and the genealogy of management practices. Beyond the grain, beyond oral histories"
2026 BHC Meeting: Presenter, "Tackling Grand Challenges by Offering an Alternative to the US business School Model in the Global South: The ILO Management Development Model"
2025 BHC meeting: Presenter, "Introducing Management Development and Training in North Africa"
2025 BHC meeting: Presenter, Roundtable Presentation
2024 BHC Meeting: Presenter, "The limit of nitrate in water in Paris’ suburbs: from a water quality parameter to performance indicator" Chair, Negotiated Economies: Reckoning with Ghana's Uncharted Business History
2023 BHC Meeting: Presenter, "The Development of the Office Chérifien des Phosphates (OCP) and the Globalization of the Phosphate Industry (1921-1956)" Chair, Global Capitalisms and Commodities, Part 1
2023 BHC Meeting: Presenter, Roundtable Presentation Chair, Global Capitalisms and Commodities, Part 1
2022 BHC Meeting : Presenter, "Married for Better or Worse: the “Problem of Water” in the Suburbs of Paris (1859-1923)"
2021 BHC Virtual Meeting: Presenter, "The Evaluation of Public-Private Collaboration in Water Management in the Paris’ Suburb (1923-2017): from Discretion to Publicizing"
2020 BHC Meeting: Presenter, "The Evaluation of Public-Private Collaboration in Water Management in the Paris’ Suburb (1923-2017): from Discretion to Publicizing"