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Alain Fayolle is Professor of Entrepreneurship at IDRAC Business School, France and CREA - Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship Activities, University of Cagliari, Italy. He is also visiting professor at Turku School of Economics, Finland. He is Chair of the Strategic and Prospective Committee at IFAG, school of management and entrepreneurship, France. Alain has been Distinguished Professor and the Founder and Director of the Entrepreneurship Research Centre at EM Lyon business school, France. In 2013, Alain Fayolle got the 2013 European Entrepreneurship Education Award and has been elected officer of the Academy of Management Entrepreneurship Division for a five-year period (2013-2018), a position that culminated as Chair of the Division during the 2016-2017 academic year. In 2015, he has been awarded Wilford L. White Fellow by ICSB. Alain Fayolle is regularly invited as an expert in the field of entrepreneurship by international institutions like OECD, UNIDO, EC and European Governments.

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Entrepreneurship & Regional Development An International Journal

by Shumaila Yousafzai, Colette Henry, and Alain Fayolle

For the modern man the patriarchal relation of status is by no means the dominant feature of life... more For the modern man the patriarchal relation of status is by no means the dominant feature of life; but for the women on the other hand, and for the upper-middle class women especially, confined as they are by prescription and by economic circumstances to their "domestic sphere", this relation is the most real and most formative factor of life'. (Veblen 1899, 324 as quoted in Van Staveren and Odebode 2007, 903)

L'| art d'entreprendre

Is a public policy of self-entrepreneurship good for entrepreneurialism and the creation of businesses?

International Conference on Multimedia Information Networking and Security, 2012

Éditorial : L'institutionnalisation de la revue de l'entrepreneuriat

L’opportunité entrepreneuriale au cœur d’un processus de réflexion et d’action

Recherches en Sciences de Gestion, 2018

Among the questions yet to be answered concerning entrepreneurial opportunities is that related t... more Among the questions yet to be answered concerning entrepreneurial opportunities is that related to the nature of the opportunity (Alvarez et al., 2013), the cognitive style of the entrepreneur (Cardon et al., 2009), and the decision-making process (Sarasvathy, 2001). The process of opportunity identification is often associated with an analytical cognitive style, whereas an individual may also be guided by intuition in effectual decision-making to construct an opportunity. Here we analyze ten case studies to unveil the relationships between the process of opportunity formation (creation or identification), the cognitive style of the entrepreneur (intuitive or analytical) and the decision-making process (causal or effectual). We find that the relation is not systematic, and that firm industry and position in the sector are determinant.

Effets comparés de deux pédagogies de plans d’affaires sur l’apprentissage entrepreneurial des étudiants

La Revue des Sciences de Gestion, 2015

Stakeholder management and the entrepreneurial university

Handbook on the Entrepreneurial University

Création d'entreprise : de l'idée à... l'inaction

L'Expansion Management Review, 2006

Distribution électronique Cairn.info pour L'Express-Roularta. © L'Express-Roularta. Tous droits r... more Distribution électronique Cairn.info pour L'Express-Roularta. © L'Express-Roularta. Tous droits réservés pour tous pays. La reproduction ou représentation de cet article, notamment par photocopie, n'est autorisée que dans les limites des conditions générales d'utilisation du site ou, le cas échéant, des conditions générales de la licence souscrite par votre établissement. Toute autre reproduction ou représentation, en tout ou partie, sous quelque forme et de quelque manière que ce soit, est interdite sauf accord préalable et écrit de l'éditeur, en dehors des cas prévus par la législation en vigueur en France. Il est précisé que son stockage dans une base de données est également interdit.

Patrick Dargent: le partage est source de richesse

Entrepreneurial orientation: Fifteen years in the making of a concept

Is Entrepreneurial Management Worth Talking About? A Process Definition of Entrepreneurship

El creador de empresa:¿“un manipulador primitivo”?

Foundations and Trends® in Entrepreneurship

Éditorial: Nouvelles orientations

Perceived entrepreneurial competences tested by business plan pedagogies

International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Small Business, 2014

Although competence is a central concept in the field of entrepreneurship, research has rarely ex... more Although competence is a central concept in the field of entrepreneurship, research has rarely examined this concept in the field of entrepreneurship education. That is, studies on students' entrepreneurial competences in developing a business plan are scarce. Therefore, the goal of this article is to investigate the effects of two business plan programmes (real and fictitious) on the entrepreneurial competences of management students. The results indicate that the two pedagogies positively influence entrepreneurial competences. However, no significant differences exist between the two teaching protocols.

Un intrapreneur averti en vaut deux

The influence of the entrepreneur's network on the internationalization of young French firms

by Véronique FAVRE-BONTE and Alain Fayolle

The International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation, 2009

show that entrepreneurs build on their previous professional experience to mobilize international... more

Entrepreneurial space and the freedom for entrepreneurship: Institutional settings, policy, and action in the space industry

Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, 2021

Research SummaryAnticipating that innovation nurtures entrepreneurship, we began an extended case... more Research SummaryAnticipating that innovation nurtures entrepreneurship, we began an extended case study of an innovative start‐up in the space industry. We quickly saw that institutions imposed formidable barriers to implementing entrepreneurship from innovation. Curious about how, why and the extent of this situation, we widened our study to other start‐ups, CEOs of existing businesses, an incubator, a technology transfer office and key influencers in large space companies and agencies. We found that institutions and policies had, in effect, shrunk the entrepreneurial field, leaving little room for enterprise. Conceptualizing from this, we propose the institutions create an “entrepreneurial space.” Theoretically, we explain how this concept of an entrepreneurial space can be usefully applied in other contexts.Managerial SummaryThe space industry is extremely innovative. It is also dominated by two powerful incumbent firms and a third that is highly regulated. This research examines...

Women entrepreneurship and the myth of underperformance: a new look at women's entrepreneurship research

Taking a fresh look at how performance is defined by examining the institutional power structures... more Taking a fresh look at how performance is defined by examining the institutional power structures and policies, eminent scholars herein explore ways to overcome constrained performance and encourage women’s entrepreneurial activities through a variety of methodological approaches and geographical contexts.

Introduction: A New Look at Women’s Entrepreneurship Research

Women entrepreneurs have been identified as the 'rising stars of the economies' (Vossenberg, 2013... more Women entrepreneurs have been identified as the 'rising stars of the economies' (Vossenberg, 2013) and the 'way forward' (World Economic Forum, 2012). While women-owned businesses have increased in number, the underperformance of women-owned enterprises compared to the performance of their male-owned counterparts continues to be debated (Ahl, 2006; Eddleston and Powell, 2008; Marlow et al., 2008). The purpose of this book is to provide a fresh perspective on women's entrepreneurship and to co-create knowledge and expertise that can feed joint learning, innovative practices and evidence-based policy-making for the successful promotion of women's entrepreneurship and gender-just inclusive growth around the globe. Most previous research in entrepreneurship has evaluated the outcomes of an entrepreneurial activity in objective monetary terms, such as financial performance, wealth and job creation, and firm survival. This one-sided analysis limits the contribution of entrepreneurial activity that is initiated by disadvantaged and marginalized groups such as women, ethnic minorities, the disabled, and youth (Welter, 2011), even though these groups often create significant value beyond the purely financial. Such value takes multiple forms and occurs at various levels, so it must be documented if the full contribution that all entrepreneurs make to the economy and society is to be recognized (Sheikh et al., Chapter 2 this volume). The chapters in Part 1 of this book argue that, while women entrepreneurs are often labelled as underperformers in business for low growth and low success rates and are, therefore, under-recognized in the sphere of social value creation, these are criteria that society expects women to meet, and are not necessarily those that women expect or want to meet. Not all entrepreneurs are cut out for or aspire to the standards of high growth and performance as identified by the yardstick of male-owned and/or high-tech enterprises. Adopting a woman's perspective and using data collected from Ethiopia, Pakistan, the US, Spain and Morocco, the chapters in Part 1 argue that the performance and success of women-owned enterprises should be defined

Entrepreneurship & Regional Development An International Journal

by Shumaila Yousafzai, Colette Henry, and Alain Fayolle

For the modern man the patriarchal relation of status is by no means the dominant feature of life... more For the modern man the patriarchal relation of status is by no means the dominant feature of life; but for the women on the other hand, and for the upper-middle class women especially, confined as they are by prescription and by economic circumstances to their "domestic sphere", this relation is the most real and most formative factor of life'. (Veblen 1899, 324 as quoted in Van Staveren and Odebode 2007, 903)

L'| art d'entreprendre

Is a public policy of self-entrepreneurship good for entrepreneurialism and the creation of businesses?

International Conference on Multimedia Information Networking and Security, 2012

Éditorial : L'institutionnalisation de la revue de l'entrepreneuriat

L’opportunité entrepreneuriale au cœur d’un processus de réflexion et d’action

Recherches en Sciences de Gestion, 2018

Among the questions yet to be answered concerning entrepreneurial opportunities is that related t... more Among the questions yet to be answered concerning entrepreneurial opportunities is that related to the nature of the opportunity (Alvarez et al., 2013), the cognitive style of the entrepreneur (Cardon et al., 2009), and the decision-making process (Sarasvathy, 2001). The process of opportunity identification is often associated with an analytical cognitive style, whereas an individual may also be guided by intuition in effectual decision-making to construct an opportunity. Here we analyze ten case studies to unveil the relationships between the process of opportunity formation (creation or identification), the cognitive style of the entrepreneur (intuitive or analytical) and the decision-making process (causal or effectual). We find that the relation is not systematic, and that firm industry and position in the sector are determinant.

Effets comparés de deux pédagogies de plans d’affaires sur l’apprentissage entrepreneurial des étudiants

La Revue des Sciences de Gestion, 2015

Stakeholder management and the entrepreneurial university

Handbook on the Entrepreneurial University

Création d'entreprise : de l'idée à... l'inaction

L'Expansion Management Review, 2006

Distribution électronique Cairn.info pour L'Express-Roularta. © L'Express-Roularta. Tous droits r... more Distribution électronique Cairn.info pour L'Express-Roularta. © L'Express-Roularta. Tous droits réservés pour tous pays. La reproduction ou représentation de cet article, notamment par photocopie, n'est autorisée que dans les limites des conditions générales d'utilisation du site ou, le cas échéant, des conditions générales de la licence souscrite par votre établissement. Toute autre reproduction ou représentation, en tout ou partie, sous quelque forme et de quelque manière que ce soit, est interdite sauf accord préalable et écrit de l'éditeur, en dehors des cas prévus par la législation en vigueur en France. Il est précisé que son stockage dans une base de données est également interdit.

Patrick Dargent: le partage est source de richesse

Entrepreneurial orientation: Fifteen years in the making of a concept

Is Entrepreneurial Management Worth Talking About? A Process Definition of Entrepreneurship

El creador de empresa:¿“un manipulador primitivo”?

Foundations and Trends® in Entrepreneurship

Éditorial: Nouvelles orientations

Perceived entrepreneurial competences tested by business plan pedagogies

International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Small Business, 2014

Although competence is a central concept in the field of entrepreneurship, research has rarely ex... more Although competence is a central concept in the field of entrepreneurship, research has rarely examined this concept in the field of entrepreneurship education. That is, studies on students' entrepreneurial competences in developing a business plan are scarce. Therefore, the goal of this article is to investigate the effects of two business plan programmes (real and fictitious) on the entrepreneurial competences of management students. The results indicate that the two pedagogies positively influence entrepreneurial competences. However, no significant differences exist between the two teaching protocols.

Un intrapreneur averti en vaut deux

The influence of the entrepreneur's network on the internationalization of young French firms

by Véronique FAVRE-BONTE and Alain Fayolle

The International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation, 2009

show that entrepreneurs build on their previous professional experience to mobilize international... more

Entrepreneurial space and the freedom for entrepreneurship: Institutional settings, policy, and action in the space industry

Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, 2021

Research SummaryAnticipating that innovation nurtures entrepreneurship, we began an extended case... more Research SummaryAnticipating that innovation nurtures entrepreneurship, we began an extended case study of an innovative start‐up in the space industry. We quickly saw that institutions imposed formidable barriers to implementing entrepreneurship from innovation. Curious about how, why and the extent of this situation, we widened our study to other start‐ups, CEOs of existing businesses, an incubator, a technology transfer office and key influencers in large space companies and agencies. We found that institutions and policies had, in effect, shrunk the entrepreneurial field, leaving little room for enterprise. Conceptualizing from this, we propose the institutions create an “entrepreneurial space.” Theoretically, we explain how this concept of an entrepreneurial space can be usefully applied in other contexts.Managerial SummaryThe space industry is extremely innovative. It is also dominated by two powerful incumbent firms and a third that is highly regulated. This research examines...

Women entrepreneurship and the myth of underperformance: a new look at women's entrepreneurship research

Taking a fresh look at how performance is defined by examining the institutional power structures... more Taking a fresh look at how performance is defined by examining the institutional power structures and policies, eminent scholars herein explore ways to overcome constrained performance and encourage women’s entrepreneurial activities through a variety of methodological approaches and geographical contexts.

Introduction: A New Look at Women’s Entrepreneurship Research

Women entrepreneurs have been identified as the 'rising stars of the economies' (Vossenberg, 2013... more Women entrepreneurs have been identified as the 'rising stars of the economies' (Vossenberg, 2013) and the 'way forward' (World Economic Forum, 2012). While women-owned businesses have increased in number, the underperformance of women-owned enterprises compared to the performance of their male-owned counterparts continues to be debated (Ahl, 2006; Eddleston and Powell, 2008; Marlow et al., 2008). The purpose of this book is to provide a fresh perspective on women's entrepreneurship and to co-create knowledge and expertise that can feed joint learning, innovative practices and evidence-based policy-making for the successful promotion of women's entrepreneurship and gender-just inclusive growth around the globe. Most previous research in entrepreneurship has evaluated the outcomes of an entrepreneurial activity in objective monetary terms, such as financial performance, wealth and job creation, and firm survival. This one-sided analysis limits the contribution of entrepreneurial activity that is initiated by disadvantaged and marginalized groups such as women, ethnic minorities, the disabled, and youth (Welter, 2011), even though these groups often create significant value beyond the purely financial. Such value takes multiple forms and occurs at various levels, so it must be documented if the full contribution that all entrepreneurs make to the economy and society is to be recognized (Sheikh et al., Chapter 2 this volume). The chapters in Part 1 of this book argue that, while women entrepreneurs are often labelled as underperformers in business for low growth and low success rates and are, therefore, under-recognized in the sphere of social value creation, these are criteria that society expects women to meet, and are not necessarily those that women expect or want to meet. Not all entrepreneurs are cut out for or aspire to the standards of high growth and performance as identified by the yardstick of male-owned and/or high-tech enterprises. Adopting a woman's perspective and using data collected from Ethiopia, Pakistan, the US, Spain and Morocco, the chapters in Part 1 argue that the performance and success of women-owned enterprises should be defined

Special Issue Entrepreneurship PuntoOrgInternationalJournal

by Michela Loi and Alain Fayolle

PuntoOrg International Journal, 2021