Denis Lescop

Montpellier Business School · Department of Strategy Entrepreneurship and Management

We examined how entrepreneurial support, resource securement, and coopetition affect the performance of SMEs in the turbulent context of an emerging economy. Data collected from a survey of SMEs in Bolivia generated an unusual finding: coopetition strategy has no significant impact on performance.

Artificial intelligence (AI) is pervasive and touch many aspects of the life of people and firms. It can outperform humans in many domains and tasks (automation) or make them more performant (augmentation). AI generates various amount of innovation ranging from productivity improvements to deep change of firm's business model or even strategy. To b...

We examined how entrepreneurial support, resource securement, and coopetition affect the performance of SMEs in the turbulent context of an emerging economy. Data collected from a survey of SMEs in Bolivia generated an unusual finding: the often called for coopetition strategy has no significant impact on performance.

In this paper, we analyze how to orchestrate platform ecosystems in order to ensure the commercialization of constant flows of innovations. We focus on platform-owners and how they orchestrate the coupling process between the innovation part of the ecosystem and the business development part of the ecosystem. We apply a life-cycle perspective, anal...

Creating a digital platform to leverage the potential of an ecosystem is recognized as an effective strategy to optimize innovation efforts in the digital era. In this paper, we analyze how platform-based ecosystems can ensure the commercialization of a constant flow of digital innovations. Our contribution focuses the role of platform-owners and t...

In many business ecosystems, the collaboration between participants of open innovation is facilitated by platforms. These socio-technical artifacts support open innovation strategies, facilitating openness and sharing, thus fostering the emergence and development of catalytic reactions between the various participants. Business ecosystems are evolv...

The mobile industries went through many (r)evolutions that increased their performance, triggered new usages and contributed to the vast popularity of mobile handsets. Some evolutions were pushed by the regulators, some were technological, some were marketing-related and others were business model-related. Our paper proposes an analysis of the latt...

Combine endogenous and exogenous ideas through internal or external paths to market to develop advances in services, products or processes are the main objectives of organizations when they implement an open innovation (OI) strategy. Since Chesbrough’s first description, the number of companies who have adopted OI has experienced a tremendous growt...

What the economists call a market failure, the entrepreneurs call a market opportunity. Firms today are the intricate interlacing of interactions, which arise in response to market failures. Market opportunities that emerge as a result are addressed by the firms through market support strategy, i.e. platform creation. Not only do the firms facilita...

The note provides a description of a business model for platform-centric architecture: firm/market equivalency

Many companies have embraced the open innovation imperative. As a consequence, more and more companies around the world - large or small - are now exploring their business ecosystem to extract resources, expertise, technologies or technological building blocks they need in order to build their own value proposition, thus nurturing the whole ecosyst...

Today open innovation strategies are widespread among large companies especially in ICTs. However some companies are experiencing difficulties when it comes to managing the various external partners enrolled on their platforms to co-create new products or services. Platform-based ecosystems support open innovation strategies and are designed in ord...

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Is a European spectrum policy a prerequisite to the single market? Or, conversely, is the single market a prerequisite to a European spectrum policy? The answer to this question leads to a different choice of regulatory system. Enforcing a European spectrum policy to build a single market should deeply change the institutional design of European Re...

The mobile gaming industry is growing at a rapid pace. Smartphones, tablets and other mobile devices are new channels to deliver games to customers. However, since the birth of Internet, users are accustomed to get things for free. How then mobile game companies are able to make billions € in revenue? What are the main drivers of profitability in t...

Over the last decade, a trend has emerged in strategic management toward more inter-organizational collaborations (Powel et al, 1996). However, a lot of companies are still experiencing difficulties in implementing collective strategies. Such strategies occur when different organizations with common concerns collaborate to face together some challe...

What the economists call a market failure, the entrepreneurs call a market opportunity. Firms today are the intricate interlacing of interactions, which arise in response to market failures. Market opportunities that emerge as a result are addressed by the firms through market support strategy, i.e. platform creation. Not only do the firms facilita...

The firm of today differs from the firm even some twenty years ago. Shift in industrial organization is prompted by technological advances, pertaining in particular to advances in information and communication technologies, that enable previously non-existent means of intra- and inter-firm interactions. The adoption of the latter derails the previo...

Today's firm is a complex nexus of interactions, which it facilitates and regulates; it supports market activity by providing the participants with basic resources. Market failures form the foundation of this phenomenon; they create business opportunities that firms address through market support strategy. The concept of firm/market equivalency int...

Stable business ecosystems at times are subjected to endogenous or exogenous gravity shocks either due to emergence of high-gravity player(s) within the ecosystem, or as a consequence of entry of high-gravity player(s), respectively. In this paper, we introduce the term gravity, i.e. the density of the firm’s external interactions, to help classify...

Companies create their business ecosystems through platform strategies. This article explores the conditions for the emergence of this phenomenon in situations of market failures. It studies how platforms substitute market to play a coordinating role and governance of economic actors. The analysis allows to link the platforms and the concept of bus...

Les entreprises ne peuvent plus innover seules. L’innovation ouverte peut selon Chesbrough répondre à cet impératif de collaboration. Le concept est élégant et repose sur une pratique managériale réelle. Cependant, il présente des lacunes: une définition trop large et un domaine de validité limité. L’objet de cet article est de questionner les fond...

In the recent years, the mobile industry has experienced important changes in its very structure shifting from an operator-centric model to a burgeoning business ecosystem (ANDERSON & WILLIAMS, 2004; BASOLE, 2009; BASOLE & ROUSE, 2009; GUEGUEN & ISCKIA, 2008) made of various players including mobile operating system (OS) providers, software vendors...

Last December, the EU's regulatory framework for electronic communications (adopted in 2002) was amended and reformed by two new directives and one new regulation 2. In Parliament, 510 out of 574 members voted in favour. In the Council, all Member States except Netherlands (abstention) voted in favour. Member States should transpose the new package...

Open innovation refers to the ability of firms to open themselves up to external networks and relationships in order to gain the full potential of their investments in innovation. The development of ICTs has opened up new markets and ways of innovating. Today, platforms and Web services are supportive instruments of relations between firms. This pa...

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This paper analyses, in a simple two-region model, the undertaking of noxious facilities when the central government has limited prerogatives. The central government decides whether to construct a noxious facility in one of the regions, and how to …nance it. We study this problem under both full and asymmetric information on the damage caused by th...

This paper characterizes optimal mechanisms facilitating the cost sharing and the selection of a provider for a club good. These mechanisms are allocatively and Pareto efficient. However, it appears that transfers occur even when the good is not provided. This result is due to the weakening of the incentive notion to Bayesian-Nash equilibrium and t...

Un groupe d'agents décide de mettre à sa disposition un site collectif polluant. Pour ce faire, ils font appel à une entreprise chargée de la localisation et de la construction de l'installation. Celle-ci leur propose une procédure de localisation/tarification soumise à l'approbation de tous les agents. Dans un tel contexte, l'entreprise est forcée...

Thesis (doctoral)--Université de Franche-Comté, 2000.