Dr Imane El Hakimi

Assistant Professor

School: Newcastle Business School

Imane’s industrial experience in various sectors in many countries increased her interest in International Management involving employees’ behaviour and how to challenge such behaviour through innovative practice.

It drove her to develop such curiosity exploring new paradigms in Management through her PhD on “Arab Management Practices from a Trust Perspective – The case of International Companies in Morocco”, awarded in September 2016 at Plymouth University.

At an academic level, in addition to her role as programme leader for MSc Business with programmes (September intake – Generalism courses), she is involved in delivering sessions to Level 4, 5, 6 and 7. Contributing to Northumbria University strategy in providing high quality learning, Imane organised the Social Hackathon in 2015 as part of the Global Entrepreneurship Week which takes place each November.

Campus Address

City Campus East 1, Room 206,
Northumbria University
Newcastle upon Tyne
NE1 8ST

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Research Themes and Scholarly Interests

Imane’s industrial experience in various sectors in many countries increased her interest in International Management involving employees’ behaviour and how to challenge such behaviour through innovative practice. Imane's research interests focus mainly on organisations in the private sectors looking into IHRM, cross-cultural studies, Trust Building as well as Family businesses.

Key Publications

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Could entrepreneurial leadership promote employees’ IWB? The roles of intrinsic motivation, creative self-efficacy, and firms’ innovation climate, Alshahrani, M., Yaqub, M., Ali, M., El Hakimi, I., Salam, M. 18 Sep 2026, In: International Journal of Innovation Science
Exploring Legal Journeys in Family Justice Systems: Towards Relational Design Approaches to Advance Access to Justice for Domestic Abuse Survivors, Crivellaro, C., El Hakimi, I., Hussein, R., Clarke, R. 5 Jul 2025, DIS '25: Proceedings of the 2025 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference, New York, NY, United States, ACM
Domestic abuse: how survivors can get through family law court, Hussein, R., El Hakimi, I. 25 Jul 2022

PGR Supervision

Fahad Zainal Investigating the role of performance appraisals in improving employee performance and achieving organizational goals in the financial sector in Qatar Start Date: 01/10/2019 End Date: 09/05/2025

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