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LEFEBVRE
Prénom
Vincent
Nom
LEFEBVRE
Prénom
Vincent
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TitreProfessor
- Head of Department - Entrepreneurship, Strategy & Innovation
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Department
Département
Entrepreneurship, Strategy & Innovation
Teaching areas
Domaine d’enseignement
Entrepreneurship
Research areas
Domaine de recherche
Innovation and Entrepreneurship
Skills
Entrepreneurship
Biography
Biographie
Vincent Lefebvre is a Professor of Entrepreneurship at Audencia Business School, France and head of Entrepreneurship, Strategy & Innovation department. He is also an Affiliate Researcher at IAE Paris Sorbonne Business School, France. He also act as a social media editor for Entrepreneurship & Regional Development and as associate editor for “La Revue de l’Entrepreneuriat”. After having worked for ten years as an entrepreneurship consultant in public and private business support organizations, in France and Spain, he did a PhD in entrepreneurship and engaged in an academic career while continuing to support start-up and take-over entrepreneurs. His research examines entrepreneurial networks and social capital, entrepreneurial processes and practices, business support mechanisms and management transfer in family business succession. Vincent Lefebvre has published papers in Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, Entrepreneurship & Regional Development, Technovation and Futures, among others.
Section CV
Formation
Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches, Business administration, Entrepreneurship
IAE Paris - Sorbonne, Paris
(2021)
Doctorate
Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers (CNAM), Paris
(2015)
Master 2, Business administration, Entrepreneurship
ISC Paris, Paris
(2003)
Experience
Head of Department - Entrepeneurship, Strategy & Innovation
Audencia Business School, Nantes, France
Since 2022
Co responsable de majeure Entrepreuneuriat
Audencia Business School, Nantes, France
2021 - 2021
Head of Major - Entrepreneurship
Audencia Business School, France
2014 - 2019
Permanent Professor
Institut Supérieur de Commerce (ISC), Paris, France
2011 - 2014
Training Project Manager, Entrepreneur Programmes
Advancia Business School, France
2009 - 2011
Head
Club des Entrepreneurs CCIP-Advancia, France
2005 - 2009
Business Transfer Project Manager
CCI Paris, Paris, France
2005 - 2005
New venture support
CCI Paris, Paris, France
2005 - 2005
New venture support
Bidasoa-Activa, Irun
2003 - 2004
Visiting out
HEC Montréal, : HEC Montréal
Publications
Published
RADU-LEFEBVRE, M., LEFEBVRE, V. (2024). I Want to Break Free: Successor Emancipation in Family Business. Boletín de Estudios Económicos, LXXVIII (234), 31-40.
LEFEBVRE, V., CERTHOUX, G. (2023). Acting as a Business Angel to Become a Better Entrepreneur: A Learning Innovation. Entrepreneurship Education and Pedagogy, 6 (2), 380-400.
LEFEBVRE, V., CERTHOUX, G., RADU LEFEBVRE, M. (2022). Sustaining Trust to Cross the Valley of Death: A Retrospective Study of Business Angels' Investment and Reinvestment Decisions. Technovation, 109 (January 2022), Article N° 102159.
RADU-LEFEBVRE, M., RONTEAU, S., LEFEBVRE, V., MCADAM, M. (2022). Entrepreneuring as emancipation in family business succession: a story of agony and ecstasy. Entrepreneurship and Regional Development, 34 (7-8), 582-602.
LEFEBVRE, V., FONROUGE, C. (2022). 20 ans de publications en héritage : Des conversations à poursuivre et de nouvelles à initier:. Revue de l'Entrepreneuriat, 21 (Hors Série), 13-36.
RADU-LEFEBVRE, M., LEFEBVRE, V., CROSINA, E., HYTTI, U. (2021). Entrepreneurial Identity: A Review and Research Agenda. Entrepreneurship: Theory and Practice, 45 (6), 1550-1590.
CHAMPENOIS, C., LEFEBVRE, V., RONTEAU, S. (2020). Entrepreneurship as practice: systematic literature review of a nascent field. Entrepreneurship and Regional Development, 32 (3-4), 281-312.
LEFEBVRE, V., RADU LEFEBVRE, M., GARTNER, W. B., CLARKE, J. (2020). Building multitemporal awareness and reflexivity in family business: A visual sensemaking exercise. Entrepreneurship Education and Pedagogy, 4 (2), 194-203.
LEFEBVRE, V., RADU LEFEBVRE, M. (2019). Investir au capital d’un nouveau projet entrepreneurial : une histoire de confiance ?. Revue de l'Entrepreneuriat, 18 (4), 101-126.
RADU LEFEBVRE, Miruna, LEFEBVRE, Vincent (2016). Anticipating intergenerational management transfer of family firms: A typology of next generation’s future leadership projections. Futures, 75, 66-82.
LEFEBVRE, Vincent, RADU LEFEBVRE, Miruna, SIMON, Eric (2015). Formal entrepreneurial networks as communities of practice: a longitudinal case study. Entrepreneurship and Regional Development, 27 (7/8), 500-525.
RADU LEFEBVRE, Miruna, LEFEBVRE, Vincent, REDIEN-COLLOT, Renaud (2014). Mentorat entrepreneurial et communication : quelles stratégies pour convaincre ?. Entreprendre et Innover, (21), 19-29.
LEFEBVRE, Vincent, RADU LEFEBVRE, Miruna, LAMY, Erwan (2012). Modèle de la poubelle" et dynamique du business model". Entreprendre et Innover, (15), 77-87.
LEFEBVRE, Vincent, RADU LEFEBVRE, Miruna (2012). Integrating Corporate Social Responsibility at the Start-up Level: Constraint or Catalyst for Opportunity Identification?. International Business Research, 5 (7), 17-27.
LEFEBVRE, V. (2021) Who Do You Think You Are? Who Do They Think You Are? The Golden Cage and the Silver Spoon Springer, , 145–159
RADU LEFEBVRE, M., LEFEBVRE, V., CLARKE, J., WILLIAM B. GARTNER, W. B. (2020) Entrepreneurial legacy: How narratives of the past, present and future affect entrepreneurship in business families. Edward Elgar Publishing, , 73-86
RADU LEFEBVRE, Miruna, LEFEBVRE, Vincent (2018) Le poids de l'héritage : le mentorat face aux attentes des futurs actionnaires et dirigeants d'entreprises familiales. Presses de l'Université du Québec
RADU LEFEBVRE, Miruna, LEFEBVRE, Vincent (2012) Faciliter la détection d’opportunités entrepreneuriales par la RSE. l'Harmattan, , 145-170
LEFEBVRE, V., VERSHININA, N. (2023). Scaling up for good: the role of actors at the centerof the organizational scaling-up process. European Scale Up Institute Conference.
LEFEBVRE, V., VERSHININA, N., JACK, S. (2023). The micro-foundations of new venture growth at the early development stage: A phenomenological perspective on growing. European Scaleup Conference.
RADU-LEFEBVRE, M., VERSHININA, N., LEFEBVRE, V. (2022). Living up to self-imposed standards: enacting moral leadership and innovation as gendered practice in family business. RENT Conference.
RADU-LEFEBVRE, M., LEFEBVRE, V. (2021). Becoming an entrepreneur: it takes more than founding a venture. Babson Conference.
LEFEBVRE, V., RADU-LEFEBVRE, M. (2021). Minding the social capital gap between new venture stages. EGOS Conference.
LEFEBVRE, V., VERSHININA, N. (2021). The role of learning in organizing and growing processes at a new venture stage. EGOS.
LEFEBVRE, V., RADU-LEFEBVRE, M., GARTNER, W. B., CLARKE, J. (2020). Portraits of the past, present and future of families and their businesses. USASBE Conference.
RADU LEFEBVRE, M., RONTEAU, S., LEFEBVRE, V., MCADAM, M. (2019). Entrepreneuring as a liminal space for successors' emancipation. Entrepreneurship as Practice 4th Conference, Nantes3-5 April.
LEFEBVRE, V., ANDERSON, A. (2019). Learning the practice of entrepreneuring social situating through social capital. Entrepreneurship as Practice 4th Conference, Nantes 3-5 April 2019.
LEFEBVRE, V., RADU LEFEBVRE, M., CLARKE, J., GARTNER, W. B. (2019). Entrepreneurial legacy: Images of facilitating or inhibiting successor entrepreneurial Identity. AOM Symposium Identity and Around.
LEFEBVRE, V., RADU LEFEBVRE, M., GARTNER, W. B. (2019). Fighting shadows of the past: Entrepreneuring as emancipation in Family Firms. Babson College Entrepreneurship Research Conference.
LEFEBVRE, V. (2019). Family Entrepreneurship Executive Education. AOM PDW Family Entrepreneurship.
RADU LEFEBVRE, M., RONTEAU, S., LEFEBVRE, V., MCADAM, M. (2019). Entrepreneuring as a liminal space for successors' emancipation. Entrepreneurship as Practice 4th Conference.
RADU LEFEBVRE, M., LEFEBVRE, V., CLARKE, J., GARTNER, W. B. (2018). Past, Present and Future: Understanding Family Entrepreneurship in Successors’ Prospective and Retrospective Thinking through Visual Narrative Analysis. Babson College Entrepreneurship Research Conference, Waterford 6-9 June 2018.
CHAMPENOIS, C., LEFEBVRE, V., & RONTEAU, S. (2017). Entrepreneurship as Practice: a systematic literature review of a nascent field?., Symposium on Entrepreneurship Research: Past, Present and Future.
LEFEBVRE, V., RADU LEFEBVRE, M., CHAMPENOIS, C., ANDERSON, A. (2017). Values at the heart of family-business identity: A family CEOs’ perspective. Entrepreneurship: past, present and future, Paris 10-12 May 2017.
LEFEBVRE, V., RADU LEFEBVRE, M., DELCHET-COCHET, K. (2015). RSE et Entrepreneuriat : vers un croisement des cadres conceptuels., 9ème Congrès de l'Académie de l'Entrepreneuriat et de l'Innovation.
LEFEBVRE, V., RADU LEFEBVRE, M. (2015). L'Image Métier de l'accompagnement entrepreneurial : les déterminants d'une carrière., 9ème Congrès de l'Académie de l'Entrepreneuriat et de l'Innovation.
LEFEBVRE, V., & MARCHAIS ROUBELAT, A. (2015). Entrepreneuriat et territoire : dialogue entre les Sciences de Gestion et la Géographie., 9ème Congrès AEI (Académie de l'Entrepreneuriat et de l'Innovation).
LEFEBVRE, V., SAINT-JEAN, E., MARCHETTI, L., MESSEGHE, K., & VERZAT, C. (2015). Enjeux et facettes de la recherche sur l’accompagnement entrepreneurial (workshop)., 9ème Congrès AEI (Académie de l'Entrepreneuriat et de l'Innovation).
RADU LEFEBVRE, M., LEFEBVRE, V., & CHAMPENOIS, C. (2014). The Social Representation of Responsible Entrepreneurship in French Family Businesses., IFERA 2014 Annual Conference (The International Family Enterprise Research Academy).
RADU LEFEBVRE, M., LEFEBVRE, V., & CHAMPENOIS, C. (2014). Responsible Entrepreneurship: norm and/or ideal of French family businesses?., 59th Annual Conference of International Council for Small Business.
LEFEBVRE, V. (2014). Proposition d’approche méthodologique pour l’analyse des réseaux formels d’entrepreneurs., 3ème journée d’études du groupe FMR (Flux Matrices Réseaux), Croissance et décroissance des réseaux.
LAVIOLETTE, E.-M., LEFEBVRE, V., & RADU LEFEBVRE, M. (2014). Business Modeling as Design Thinking: Implications for Entrepreneurship Education., 59th Annual Conference of International Council for Small Business.
LEFEBVRE, V., RADU LEFEBVRE, M., DELÉCOLLE, T. (2013). Trust at first sight ? The impact of entrepreneurs’ pitch presentations on business angels’ investment decisions in France and Germany.. Babson College Entrepreneurship Research Conference, 5-8 June 2013.
RADU LEFEBVRE, M., & LEFEBVRE, V. (2013). Investir au capital d’un nouveau projet entrepreneurial : une histoire de confiance ?., 8ème Congrès de l'Académie de l'Entrepreneuriat et de l'Innovation.
RADU LEFEBVRE, M., LEFEBVRE, V., & O'SHEA, N. (2013). Entrepreneurs: the last of the shamans? Heroic metaphors of entrepreneurs in the French press., 3rd Conference of Management, Spirituality & Religion.
RADU LEFEBVRE, M., & LEFEBVRE, V. (2011). L'élaboration du Business Model en situation d'accompagnement : une co-construction de la boîte à alternatives du développement sur le modèle de la poubelle ?., 7ème Congrès de l'Académie de l'Entrepreneuriat et de l'Innovation.
RADU LEFEBVRE, Miruna, LEFEBVRE, Vincent (2016). Livre blanc : les jeunes et l'entrepreneuriat familial. Propositions pour lever les freins à la création ou l'intégration d'entreprises familiales.
LEFEBVRE, V. (2015). Livre Blanc Entrepreneuriat Etudiant.
Broadcasts
RADU-LEFEBVRE, M., LEFEBVRE, V., VERSHININA, N., DIMOV, D. (2023). STEP conversation #3 : Growth and Family Business Succession. Chaine Youtube Audencia
Press articles
LEFEBVRE, V. (2023). Entretien « Le véritable start-uppeur de 2023, c’est l’agriculteur ». Ouest-France
Scientific activities
Reviewer for an academic journal
Reviewer Management Learning,
2024
Reviewer Management International,
2024
Management International,
2023
Human Relations,
2023
Journal of Small Business Management,
2023
Reviewer Futures,
2023
Reviewer IJEBR,
2023
Entrepreneurship and Regional Development
M@n@gement
Foresight
Gestion 2000
Journal of Small Business and Enterprise Development
Member of the editorial board of an academic journal
Social Media Editor,
2021
Associate Editor of an academic journal
Associate Editor Revue de l'Entrepreneuriat,
2020
Member of the board of directors of an academic association
Digital Vice-President,
2015
Awards and honors
Best Paper Award FERC Conference, 2019
Revue de l'Entrepreneuriat Best Paper Award - Entrepreneurship: past, present and future, Paris 10-12 May 2017, 2017