First manage, then research
The order matters. Marie-Noëlle Albert led teams for about ten years before entering the university. This is not a biographical detail: it is the reason why the question of the validity of knowledge drawn from experience runs through the whole of her work.
The starting point
2007
L'engagement revisité à l'aide du concept du « soi » : expérience d'une entreprise familiale de la grande distribution
The starting point of the entire architecture. Nearly sixty semi-structured interviews conducted in four stores of a group of independent retailers, supplemented by observations and documents. The thesis builds a four-phase framework — research design, empirical collection, construction of local knowledge, then construction and dissemination of generic knowledge — and already sets out what will run through the later work: the "self" is relational; internal and external commitment reinforce each other recursively; recognition and the meaning given to work prevent disengagement.
- Supervision
- Defence
- Institution
- Research centre
- Committee
- Distinction
- Length
- Field
Chronology
Five periods, five displacements
2003 – 2009
How can engagement be understood as it is actually lived?
A doctoral thesis, and a way of building generic knowledge out of field experience.
- Interactionism
- The concept of “self”
- Narratives
- Visualization tools
- Systemic modelling
2010 – 2014
On what conditions does a practitioner's account become scientific knowledge?
An explicit epistemology for legitimating knowledge drawn from experience — the prefiguration of autopraxeography.
- Pragmatic constructivism
- Reflexivity
- Autobiographical research
- Experiential testimonio
2015 – 2018
How do we stop treating human beings as resources?
Persons management as an avowed theoretical proposition, and autopraxeography named as such.
- Person
- Vulnerability
- Professional judgement
- Dialogue
- Community of persons
2019 – 2023
How do we act within diversity and within complexity?
Regional applications, university programmes, and a thematic issue on the complexity paradigm.
- Inclusion
- Immigration
- Solidarity
- Resilience
- Ingenium
- Dialogic
2024 – today
How can human action be sustained through contemporary transformations?
An extension to the work that is coming: artificial intelligence, transmission between generations, regulation through benevolence.
- Benevolence
- Reverse mentoring
- Irrationality
- Human-AI coopetition
- Diverse persons
Education and experience
Education
- 2007
Doctorate in management sciences
- 2003
DEA in Strategy and Management
- —
University diploma in logistics and transport
- —
Master’s degree in econometrics
Experience
- Since December 2008
Professor at the Université du Québec à Rimouski
- 2008
Teaching at Cégep de Rivière-du-Loup
- About ten years, before the doctorate
Manager, then an entrepreneurial experience