Johnny
Boghossian
Associate Professor
Department of Management
FSA ULaval
Pavillon Palasis-Prince
Local 0537
Fields of Interest and Research
- Management theory
Théorie institutionnelle - Entrepreneurship
Création de nouvelles industries - Social movements and democracy
- Organizational behaviour
- Social institutions
- Economics of innovation and technical change
- Climate change impacts and adaptation
Transition écologique
Education
- Doctorate in Administration, Strategy (Ph. D.), McGill University
- Master of Business Administration (MBA), McGill University
- Bachelor in Engineering, Concordia University
Publications
Articles
- Marques, J. C., Boghossian, J., & Coraiola, D. M. (2025). Escaping authenticity’s dark side: How indigenous groups negotiate indigeneity during contentious interactions. Business and Society. DOI : 10.1177/00076503251384800
- Boghossian, J., & David, R. J. (2021). Under the Umbrella: Goal-Derived Category Construction and Product Category Nesting. Administrative Science Quarterly, 66(4), 1084-1129. DOI : 10.1177/00018392211012376
- Boghossian, J., & Marques, J. C. (2019). Saving the Canadian Fur Industry's Hide: Government's strategic use of private authority to constrain radical activism. Organization Studies, 40(8), 1241-1267. DOI : 10.1177/0170840618815928
- Brès, L., Raufflet, E., & Boghossian, J. (2018). Pluralism in Organizations: Learning from Unconventional Forms of Organizations. International Journal of Management Reviews, 20(2), 364-386. DOI : 10.1111/ijmr.12136
Chapters in Collective Works
- Pisani, S., Glee, C., Brès, L., & Boghossian, J. (2022). Réussir autrement : une analyse fraserienne des maisons familiales rurales. In P.-A. Lapointe (Ed). Innovations sociales et justice sociale au regard de la théorie critique de Nancy Fraser. Presse de l'Université du Québec.
- Glée-Vermande, C., Boghossian, J., Brès, L., & Pisani, S. (2021). La mise en oeuvre féconde des notions de justice et de reconnaissance au sein d'une structure alternative d'éducation. In M.-C. Monnoyer & N. Teisseyre (Eds.). Gouvernance, collégialité et innovation - Les organisations à but social (pp. 209-231). Les Presses universitaires de l’Institut Catholique de Toulouse.
- David, R. J., Tolbert, P. S., & Boghossian, J. (2019). Institutional Theory. In Aldag, R. J. (Ed). Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Business and Management. Oxford University Press. https://global.oup.com/academic/product/oxford-research-encyclopedias-business-and-management-9780190224851?cc=ca&lang=en&.
Communications in a Conference with Proceedings
- Boghossian, J., Glée-Vermande, C., & Brès, L. (2024). Organizing for emancipation: Constructing and managing liminal spaces. EGOS Colloquium 2024, Milan, Italy.
- Marques, J.-C., & Boghossian, J. (2022). From vile to virtuous: Challenging Animal rights stigma in Canada's wild fur industry. Academy of Management Proceedings, Briarcliff Manor, United States of America.
- Pisani, S., Brès, L., Boghossian, J., & Glée-Vermande, C. (2022). Organized emancipation: A fraserian analysis of maisons familiales rurales. Academy of Management proceedings, United States of America.
- Pisani, S., Glée-Vermande, C., Brès, L., & Boghossian, J. (2021). L'émancipation organisée: une analyse fraserienne des maisons familiales rurales (MFR). Paper presented at the Colloque international du CRISES - 6e édition, Online organized by CRISES Montréal, Canada.
- Boghossian, J., & Marques, J. C. (2020). Virtue transfer: Shedding core-stigma in the Canadian wild fur industry. Academy of Management Proceedings, Briarcliff Manor, United States of America.
- Pisani, S., Brès, L., Boghossian, J., & Glée-Vermande, C. (2020). Organized emancipation: A fraserian analysis of maisons familiales rurales. Briarcliff Manor, United States of America.
- Boghossian, J. (2020). Virtue transfer in stigmatized industries: The collective response to the stigmatization of the Canadian fur industry. European Group on Organization.
- Glée-Vermande, C., Brès, L., & Boghossian, J. (2018). The safety of the institutional peripheries for unconventional organizations: the promotion of social inclusion by maison familiale rurale. 34th EGOS Colloquium - Sub-theme 12: Surprising Organizations, Unexpected Outcomes: The Influence of Alternative Organizational Forms on Social Inclusion, Tallinn, Estonia.
- Boghossian, J. (2015). The role of regional identity in the construction of new regional markets. Academy of Management Proceedings, Briarcliff Manor, Canada.
- David, R. J., Boghossian, J., & Dacin, T. (2014). Overcoming legitimacy deficits: Leveraging regional collective identity in the Quebec wine field. Proceedings of the 74th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, Philadelphia, United States of America.
- Boghossian, J. (2013). The logic of place: Quebec nationalism and the emergence of a market for Quebec artisanal cheese. Academy of Management Proceedings, Briarcliff Manor, United States of America.
- Boghossian, J. (2010). The role of the material in the reconstitution of the symbolic. Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the Administrative Sciences Association of Canada, Regina, Canada.
- Boghossian, J. (2009). Social capital and institutional change: The role of interpersonal networks in institutional entrepreneurship. Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the Administrative Sciences Association of Canada, Niagara Falls, Canada.
Communications in a Conference Without Proceedings
- Boghossian, J. (2025). Bootstrapping the past: How a market category with no past imagined a future. European Group for Organisation Studies.
- Boghossian, J. (2025). Bootstrapping the past: How entrepreneurs imagined a future for a place-based category. Reversing the Arrow, Canada.
- Boghossian, J. (2025). Strategic responses to transnational movement: The state-sponsored program to counter the stigmatization of the Canadian fur industry, 1983-1991. Alberta Institutions Conference, Alberta, Canada.
- Boghossian, J. (2023). Strategic Responses to Transnational Movements: The state sponsored program to counter the stigmatization of the Canadian fur industry, 1983-1991. European Group for Organization Studies (EGOS), Cagliari, Italy.
- Béland, J.-P., Boghossian, J., Brès, L., Carignan, L., & Glée-Vermande, C. (2023). L’empreinte du management : études de cas. 90e Congrès de l'Association francophone pour le savoir (ACFAS 2023), Montréal, Canada.
- Boghossian, J. (2022). Escaping the authenticity trap: Historicizing the ethics of wild fur and indigenous peoples' rights. European Group for Organization Studies (EGOS).
- Boghossian, J. (2022). Cultural subsistence is not enough: Indigenous peoples and the disembedded ethics of animal rights transnational activism. L'Association des sciences administratives du Canada (ASAC), Canada.
- Glée-Vermande, C., Pisani, S., Brès, L., & Boghossian, J. (2020). La construction de l'émancipation des personnes au sein des organisations: le cas des Maisons familiales rurales analysées à partir de la perspective de Nancy Fraser. Guest Speaker, Wébinaire du CRISES "Quelles organisations pour quelle justice sociale et environnementale?", Online organized by CRISES Montréal, Canada.
- Glée-Vermande, C., Boghossian, J., & Brès, L. (2019). How stigmatized organizations can succeed despite their stigma: the case of Maison Familiale Rurale. AOM 2019 - Theme : Understanding the inclusive organization; OMT (Organization and management Theory), Boston, United States of America.
- Boghossian, J. (2017). Bridging the Divide: Examining the State-Led Formation of a Business Interest Association in the Canadian Fur Industry. 33rd European Group for Organizational Studies Colloquium (EGOS 2017), Copenhagen, Denmark.
- Boghossian, J. (2016). How the Canadian Fur Industry Saved Its Hide: Examining a State-Led Countermovement. 32nd European Group for Organizational Studies Colloquium (EGOS 2016), Naples, Italy.
- Boghossian, J. (2014). The Role of Regional Identity in the Construction of New Regional Markets. 30th European Group for Organizational Studies (EGOS) Colloquium, Rotterdam, Netherlands (The).
- Boghossian, J. (2013). How Regional Identities Facilitate Market Construction: Quebec National Identity and the Emergence of a Market for Ice-Cider. 29th European Group for Organizational Studies (EGOS) Colloquium, Montréal, Canada.
- Boghossian, J. (2013). The Logic of Place: Quebec Nationalism and the Emergence of a Market for Quebec Artisanal Cheese. INSEAD-OMT-ASQ Conference on Organization Theory and New Venture Creation, Singapore.
- Boghossian, J. (2012). The Logic of Place: Geographic Community Identity and Market Formation. Academy of Management 2012 Annual Meeting, Boston, United States of America.
- Boghossian, J. (2011). An Institutional Logics Perspective on Field Formation: Constructing a New Space for Organizational Activity. The 39th Annual Conference of the Administrative Sciences Association of Canada (ASAC 2011), Montréal, Canada.
- Boghossian, J. (2010). Resisting the Ascendant Logic: The Role of Local Culture in the Nascent Quebec Wine-Making Industry. 26th European Group for Organizational Studies Colloquium (EGOS 2010), Lisbon, Portugal.
- Boghossian, J. (2010). Resisting the Ascendant Logic: Institutional Work in the Nascent Quebec Wine-Making Industry. International Conference on Institutions and Work - Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada.
- Boghossian, J. (2009). The Institutional Dynamics of Locally-Bounded Fields. The 2nd Alberta Institutions Conference, Edmonton, Canada.