RABAH NOUI
University of Béjaïa (Algeria)
Centrum für Nah- und Mittelost-Studien (CNMS)
Philipps-Universität Marburg
Deutschhausstraße 12 | 30357 Marburg
Email: rabah.noui@univ-bejaia.dz
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biography
Rabah Noui is an Associate Professor (HDR) of Sociology at the University of Béjaïa, Algeria, where he has been teaching since 2018. He is also a Research Associate at the Centre de Recherche en Économie Appliquée pour le Développement (CREAD, Algiers) and at IDHES/CNRS (France). His research is grounded in the New Economic Sociology and focuses on market dynamics, entrepreneurial ecosystems, and socio-economic transformations in emerging economies. Drawing particularly on the concepts of social embeddedness (Granovetter) and Strategic Action Fields (Fligstein & McAdam), his work examines how social networks, institutional structures, and power relations shape the behavior of economic actors in the Algerian context. His current research focuses on the emergence of green entrepreneurship and the actors involved in Algeria’s energy transition. It examines the emergence of new economic actors and their contribution to energy transition and economic diversification objectives, with particular attention to the role of public policies, institutions, and support mechanisms. He holds a PhD in Sociology of Organizations from the University of Béjaïa, obtained in 2017, and a Habilitation to Supervise Research (HDR), obtained in 2021.
short
biography
His research is grounded in the New Economic Sociology and focuses on market dynamics, entrepreneurial ecosystems, and socio-economic transformations in emerging economies. Drawing particularly on the concepts of social embeddedness (Granovetter) and Strategic Action Fields (Fligstein & McAdam), his work examines how social networks, institutional structures, and power relations shape the behavior of economic actors in the Algerian context. His current research focuses on the emergence of green entrepreneurship and the actors involved in Algeria’s energy transition. It examines the emergence of new economic actors and their contribution to energy transition and economic diversification objectives, with particular attention to the role of public policies, institutions, and support mechanisms. He holds a PhD in Sociology of Organizations from the University of Béjaïa, obtained in 2017, and a Habilitation to Supervise Research (HDR), obtained in 2021.
CONTRIBUTION TO THE PROJECT
Rabah Noui contributes to the Extractivism project by providing an empirical and theoretical analysis of the Algerian case, with a particular focus on the economic and institutional transformations associated with the challenges of the energy transition. His research examines the emergence of new actors in green entrepreneurship and the renewable energy sector, as well as their trajectories, relationships with institutions, and integration into national and transnational networks. By drawing on the sociology of markets and the analysis of economic transformations, his work contributes to the comparative dimension of the project and to a better understanding of the entrepreneurial and institutional dynamics accompanying the energy transition in emerging economies.
RECENT PUBLICATIONS
Noui, R., & Habhoub, S. (2026). Digital government in Algeria: How performance and transparency shape institutional trust. Transforming Government: People, Process and Policy. Advance online publication.
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Noui, R., Touati, L., & Touati, A. (2026). Time porosity in the digital age: ICTs, boundary management, and the well-being of managers in Algeria. Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, 15(2), 981–1015.
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Noui, R., & Chaouch, K. (2025). The transformation of the world of work in the digital era: Towards new organizational models. Annales de l’Université de Guelma — Social and Human Sciences, 19(1), 559–577.
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Noui, R. (2020). Higher education between massification and quality. Higher Education Evaluation and Development, 14(2), 93–103.
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Noui, R., & Abedou, A. (2016). La téléphonie mobile en Algérie: Facteurs non-économiques et encastrement social du choix de l’opérateur [Mobile telephony in Algeria: Non-economic factors and the social embeddedness of operator choice]. Annales de l’Université de Guelma, 10(3), 1–16.
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