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François Bastien

Gustavson researcher Francois Bastien

Associate Professor; Associate Dean, Indigenous; Academic Director, MBA in Advancing Reconciliation

Contact:
Office: BEC 474 250-721-6071
Credentials:
BCom, Concordia University; MSc in Administration, Concordia University; PhD in Management, HEC Montreal
Area of expertise:
Indigenous Peoples, Indigenous Knowledges, Indigenous organizing, decolonization, indigenization, reconciling forms of knowledge, social memory, temporality

Biography

François Bastien’s story begins in Wendake. He is a member of the Huron-Wendat First Nation. He and his family now reside on the traditional lands of the WSÁNEĆ Peoples and are grateful for the opportunity to live and learn from those who have stewarded and protected the lands on which they now reside since time immemorial. He has worked for, lived in, played and developed relationships with many Indigenous Peoples and communities which have all contributed to his learning journey. While doing so, he has observed various incongruities between Indigenous ways of organizing and contemporary colonial models. Throughout his academic work in various Western post-secondary institutions, he has also noticed a shared struggle to decolonize and indigenize. Reconciliation for him means embarking on a mutually beneficial co-constructed journey of transformation and collaboration between Western and Indigenous worldviews; a road that is built and shared as opposed to being static and owned.

Teaching

Courses taught

  • Decolonization and Reconciliation (MBA-AR)
  • Capstone Project (MBA-AR)
  • Indigenous Knowledges and Organization Studies (PhD)

Selected publications

Journal publications

Cascadden, M. M., Bastien, F., Block, E., & Jennings, P. D. (2025). Decolonizing Scaffolding: Learning from First Nations' Resurgence to Recalibrate Entrepreneurship. Journal of Management Studies

Foster, W. M., Coraiola, D. M., & Bastien, F. (2025). Repairing ontological security: The collective sensemaking of affective stakeholders in online communities. Human Relations

Price, S. T., Bastien, F., Doucette, M. B., Carter-Rogers, K., Mckay, C., & Van Buskirk, C. (2025). Kincentric Spirituality in Management Education: Rematriating Trauma-informed Intersectional Love. Journal of Management, Spirituality & Religion22(1), 66-96. 

Bastien, F., Coraiola, D. M., & Foster, W. M. (2023). Indigenous Peoples and Organization Studies. Organization Studies, 4, 659–675. 

Suddaby, R., Israelsen, T., Bastien, F., & Coraiola, D. (2023). Rhetorical History as Institutional Work. Journal of Management Studies, 1, 242–278.

Chapters

Bastien, F., & Coraiola, D. M. (2023). Researching the living past: discovering past occurrences through conversational inquiry. In Handbook of Historical Methods for Management (pp. 314-327). Edward Elgar Publishing.

Bastien, F., Foster, W. M., Coraiola, D. M. (2020). Don’t talk about history: Indigenous views about the past and their implication for organization studies. In Maclean, M., Clegg, S., Suddaby R., and Harvey, C. (Eds.). Historical Organization Studies: Theory and Applications (pp. 90-103). Routledge. 

Foster, W. M., Wiebe, E., Coraiola, D. M., Bastien, F., & Suddaby, R. (2020). Memory-Work: Corporate archivists and long-term remembering in organizations. In Reinecke, J., Suddaby, R., Langley, A. & Tsoukas, H. (Eds.). Perspectives on Process Organization Studies – Volume 10: About Time: Temporality and History in Organization Studies (pp. 240-258). Oxford University Press. 

Foster, W. M., Coraiola, D. M., Quinn-Trank, C. & Bastien, F. (2020). Unpacking organizational re-membering. In Bruce, K. (Ed.). Elgar Handbook of research on management and organizational history (pp. 256-274) Edward Elgar.

Presentations

Lamertz, K., & Bastien, F. (2024). From rational to relational: Bridging between Indigenous worldviews and management/organization studies. Administrative Sciences Association of Canada Annual Meeting. Longueil, Canada. (Paper presentation) 

Foster, W. M., Bastien, F., Coraiola, D. M., & Rintamaki, J. (2024). Remembering unethical acts from the past: A path toward moral repair. European Academy of Management Annual Meeting. Claverton Down, England. (Paper presentation)

Price, S. T., Bastien, F., Carter-Rogers, K., & Doucette, M. B. (2024). Rematriating management spirituality education: Storytelling a return to living culture. Administrative Sciences Association of Canada Annual Meeting. Montréal, Canada. (Paper presentation)

Salmon, E., Bastien, F., Price, S. T., Doucette, M. B., Carter, T., Carter-Rogers, K., & Elliott, M. (2024). Liberating the business school: Charting the course for decolonization – feasible future or puzzling paradox. Academy of Management Annual Meeting. Chicago, USA. (PDW-Organizer and Panelist)

Foster, W. M., Coraiola, D. M., Bastien, F., Crane, A., Painter, M., Wadhwani, D., & Zundel, M. (2024). History, Memory and Ethics. Academy of Management Annual Meeting. Chicago, USA. (Symposium-Panelist)

Bastien, F., Foster, W. M., & Coraiola, D. M. (2024). Organizational identity responses to unwanted legislation. 18th Organization Studies Workshop Organization, Organizing, and Politics: Disciplinary Traditions and Possible Futures. Mykonos, Greece. (Paper presentation)

Coraiola, D. M., Schrempf-Stirling, J., Mena, S., Bastien, F., Jammulamadaka, N., & Higgins, C. P. (2024). Historical injustices in business & society. Academy of Management Annual Meeting. Chicago, USA. (PDW-Organizer)

Deephouse, D., Bastien, F., Carter, T., McComber, A., & Price, S. (2024). A colloquium to help Canadian business schools become more hospitable to Indigenous research and researchers. Administrative Sciences Association of Canada Annual Meeting. Longueil, Canada. (Colloquium- Facilitator and Panelist)

Awards & grants

Recognition & awards

  • 2024 - Best Emerging Scholar Award: Academy of Management, Management History

  • 2024 - International Advisory Board (IAB) Community Engagement Award, Gustavson School of Business

  • 2019 - Best Reviewer Award: Academy of Management Learning & Education
  • 2018 - Outstanding Emerging Reviewer Award, Academy of Management Learning & Education

Grants

  • Overcoming the impact of historical trauma on health outcomes for Indigenous populations: How an Indigenous led health care partnership can address the trauma of health care bureaucracy. Funded by CIHR (July 1, 2025 – July 1, 2029), $2,103,750

  • Historical injustices and organizations: How higher education institutions (HEIs) produce, reproduce, and disrupt legacies of oppression and disadvantage. Funded by SSHRC - Insight Grant (July 1, 2022 - July 1, 2027), $397,427.00

  • Commemoration and Indigenous organizing. Funded by SSHRC - Insight Grant (June 1, 2022 - June 1, 2027), $280,420.00

  • Using the past to attract resources: Exploring strategic differences in Indigenous communities across Canada. Funded by SSHRC - Insight Development Grant (June 1, 2019 - May 31, 2021), $45,991.00