Michel has worked the Isle of Man International Business School in June 2008 as a lecturer in operations management.

Michel first graduated with a mechanical engineering degree from France before studying business in the United States (MBA) and operations management in the UK (PhD, University of Sheffield).

Michel has worked for Loughborough University, Al Akhawayn University (Morocco), Aston Business School, and Plymouth Business School before joining IBS.

Michel’s research interests are: (1) organisations and technology as naturally evolving systems, (2) effective means of organisational control and performance management, and (3) knowledge management in an industrial context.

He has worked on EPSRC projects focusing on the building of evolutionary classifications of manufacturing systems and on project knowledge management. Michel was trained to conduct systematic literature reviews, and as a lead AIM scholar, worked on a review of why British firms find to difficult to implement successfully best practices.