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François Bastien

Gustavson's Frank 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(s) of expertise:
Indigenous Peoples, Indigenous Knowledges, Indigenous organizing, decolonization, indigenization, reconciling forms of knowledge, social memory, temporality

Biography

François Bastien is an Associate Professor at the Peter B. Gustavson School of Business at the University of Victoria, where he serves as Associate Dean, Indigenous, and Academic Director of the MBA in Advancing Reconciliation. A member of the Huron-Wendat First Nation, his research focuses on Indigenous knowledges, Indigenous Peoples, social memory, temporality, historical injustices, and reconciling forms of knowledge through epistemic disturbance. His work appears in journals such as Journal of Management Studies, Human Relations, and Organization Studies.

Teaching

Courses taught

  • Capstone Project (MBA in Advancing Reconciliation)

  • Indigenous Knowledges and Organizational Studies (PhD in Management and Organization)

Selected publications

Journal publications

Zakrzewska, B., & Bastien, F. (2026). Decolonizing Craft: A Systematic Literature Review of Indigenous Traditional Modes of Production in Abya Yala. Human Relations.

Cascadden, M. M., Bastien, F., Block, E., & Jennings, P. D. (2026). Decolonizing Scaffolding: Learning from First Nations’ Resurgence to Recalibrate Entrepreneurship. Journal of Management Studies, 63(1), 22-58.

Foster, W. M., Coraiola, D. M., & Bastien, F. (2026). Repairing ontological security: The collective sensemaking of affective stakeholders in online communities. human relations, 79(4), 435-470.

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., & Foster, W. M. (2026). Indigenous Peoples and Organization Studies Revisited for publication in Indigenous Management: Knowledges and Frameworks. In Pirini, J., Cummings, S., and Peredo, Ana Maria (Eds.). Indigenous Management: Knowledges and Frameworks. Sage. 

Kelly-Roy, D., & Bastien, F. (2026). 9. Shapeshifters and supernaturals: climate change, contracts and Indigenous governance. In Handbook of Research on Sustainability and Governance, 109.

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

Nieminen, M., Kovacs, C., Bastien, F., & Slawinski, N. (2026). From Owning to Owing – Kincentricity and Reciprocal Organizing with Nature. Academy of Management Annual Meeting. Philadelphia, USA. (Paper presentation) 

Doucette, M. B., & Bastien, F. (2026). The Plausibility of Decolonizing Critical Management Studies: Understanding the Theoretical Position and Limits of Two-Eyed Critical Sensemaking. Administrative Sciences Association of Canada Annual Meeting. Calgary, Canada. (Paper presentation) 

Bastien, F. (2025). Education is the Key to Reconciliation: Rethinking Business Schools on Indigenous Lands.  Atlantic Schools of Business. Antigonish, Canada. (Keynote speaker) 

Fan, Z., Suddaby, R., Bastien, F., Decker, S., Foroughi, H., & Li, Y. (2025). Exploring Rhetorical History from Non-Western Perspectives. Academy of Management Annual Meeting. Copenhagen, Denmark. (PDW-Organizer and Panelist) 

Coraiola, D. M., Foster, W. M., Suddaby, R., Barros, A., Lubinski, C., Egholm, L., Maclean, M., & Bastien, F. (2025). The Presence and Absence of the Past. Academy of Management Annual Meeting. Copenhagen, Denmark. (Panelist) 

Bednarek, R., Peredo, A. M., Cummings, S., Pirini, J., Bastien, F., Salmon, E., Daher, S., & Cutcher, L. (2025). Approaches to Centering Indigenous Organizing & Strategizing in Management and Organization Studies. Academy of Management Annual Meeting. Copenhagen, Denmark. (PDW-Organizer and Panelist) 

Price, S., Bastien, F., Carter-Rogers, K., & Salmon, E. (2025). Reconciliation and Rematriation: Honouring Protocols of the First Peoples of the Lands. Academy of Management Annual Meeting. Copenhagen, Denmark. (PDW-Organizer and Panelist) 

Nieminen, M., Kovacs, C., Bastien, F., & Slawinski, N. (2025). Indigenous Relational Ontologies. In Sustainable Naturecultures and Multispecies Future Symposium. Lapland, Finland. (Paper presentation) 

Van Buskirk, C., Bastien, F., Shelley, P. T., Carter-Rogers, K., & Mckay, C. (2025). Decolonizing Education through Trauma-informed Intersectional Love. Western Academy of Management Annual Meeting. Kelowna, Canada. (Paper presentation) 

Bastien, F. (2025). Bureaucracy, Institutional Violence and Indigenous Historical Trauma. Western Academy of Management Annual Meeting. Kelowna, Canada. (Panelist) 

Zakrzewska, B., & Bastien, F. (2025). Reimagining Craft: New Discourses on Creativity and Change . European Group for Organization Studies Annual Meeting. Athens, Greece. (Paper presentation) 

Nieminen, M., Kovacs, C. M., Bastien, F., & Slawinski, N. (2025). From owning to owing – reciprocal organizing with nature. European Group for Organization Studies Annual Meeting. Athens, Greece. (Paper presentation).

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