Fayolle AlainIDRAC Business School · Management
Fayolle Alain
PhD in Management Sciences
IDRAC Business School, France and CREA, University of Cagliari, Italy
Visiting Professor at Turku School of Economics
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Introduction
Current research interests: entrepreneurship education, entrepreneurship research methods, entrepreneurial universities, ecosystems, family entrepreneurship, corporate entrepreneurship, critical studies and approaches, evaluation of policies, educational programmes and business support systems and mechanisms
Additional affiliations
June 2022 - present
University of Turku
Position
- Visiting Professor
January 2021 - February 2023
CREA University of Cagliari
Position
- Director of International Research Projects
Publications
Publications (486)
The book titled "Gender in Digital Entrepreneurship: Recent Issues in Emerging Countries" offers an in-depth exploration of the intersection between gender and digital entrepreneurship, particularly focusing on the unique dynamics in emerging countries. As technology continues to reshape business landscapes, it opens new avenues for gender equality...
The study argues that the educational needs of engineering students for entrepreneurship and managerial education are specific and evolving over time toward a set of skills and knowledge needed in digital and dynamic world. Existing research largely ignored the distinct and evolving nature of these educational needs and their implications for entre...
Purpose
Entrepreneurship education (EE) through innovative teaching techniques (ITEE) and entrepreneurial intention (EI) are two essential components of entrepreneurship development. Using the assumptions of the Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB), we took three constructs: attitude (ATT), subjective norms (SUBNs), and perceived behavioral control (PB...
This incisive book explores entrepreneurial activity and its close relationship with the surrounding context. Through the study of tailored educational approaches, it emphasises programs, interventions and awareness initiatives as a means to stimulate entrepreneurship and highlight both the commonalities underlying entrepreneurial activity in gener...
Influenced by the neo-liberal economic perspective, in which universities are evaluated based on their contribution to society, the term “Entrepreneurial University” (EU) emerged in the early 1980s. The entrepreneurial university has evolved as a “natural” incubator supporting entrepreneurship, innovation, and sustainability in the university commu...
Fragmentation is the main obstacle to scientific progress on entrepreneurial intention. To address this issue, we systematise the current literature with a hybrid bibliometric method that combines co‐citation and bibliographic coupling analysis for the first time in entrepreneurial intention studies to show the field's knowledge base and research f...
Comment mieux répondre aux besoins d’accompagnement humain des porteurs de projet ? À partir de cette demande, l’article cherche à mieux comprendre dans quelles situations et de quelle façon des accompagnateurs seniors mobilisent les différentes postures d’accompagnement. Six situations problématiques principales ont été identifiées, ainsi que les...
This paper responds to the paucity of theorisation on sustainable entrepreneurship education (SEE) to date. By virtue of its potential commitment to transforming socio-economic relations, we argue that Freire's critical pedagogical approach offers a basis for a theory of SEE that has the potential to be transformational at the individual, organisat...
Purpose
Social entrepreneurship education (SEE) is gaining increasing attention globally. This paper aims to focus on how SEE may be better understood and reconfigured from a Bourdieusian capital perspective with an emphasis on the process of mobilising and transforming social entrepreneurs’ cultural, social, economic and symbolic resources.
Desig...
No writer has captured the reader’s imagination as vividly as the Marquis de Sade. Per his usual ramblings, he espouses evil via excruciatingly detailed sexual exploits; but, in later writings he is vehemently critical of those who engage in corrosive behavior. In Reflections on the Novel, de Sade provides step-by-step instructions to create repell...
An open innovation approach can contribute to management opportunities. This article analyses how Science and Technology-Based Start-ups (STBSUs) achieve entrepreneurial opportunities involving stakeholders. The basis of the analysis comes from a qualitative and exploratory study of 24 STBSUs from two entrepreneurial ecosystems in France and Spain....
Au cœur des préoccupations des pouvoirs publics, l’entrepreneuriat mobilise d’importantes ressources et l’éducation en entrepreneuriat est évaluée sur sa capacité à produire les effets attendus : création d’entreprises, d’emplois et développement de l’esprit d’entreprendre. Le caractère processuel de la démarche entrepreneuriale, ancrée dans un éco...
This paper aims to extend the theoretical foundations of entrepreneurship education by integrating several of the most relevant lessons from Anderson’s contribution into current conceptualizations. We identify three main dimensions of Anderson’s work useful for our purpose: conceptualization of entrepreneurship; network and social capital as mechan...
This work presents a synthesis of a debate regarding taken-for-granted assumptions and challenges in entrepreneurship education, matured after a developmental workshop organized to increase the research salience of the field. From the five contributions selected, three challenges emerge. The first is recognizing that participants’ representations a...
This editorial offers ways to develop qualitative studies in entrepreneurship research. We indicate why and how qualitative methods clearly and distinctively contribute to the understanding of current entrepreneurship challenges using examples from the articles in this Special Issue and from other recent qualitative research. We provide a synthesis...
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In this chapter, we take stock of family entrepreneurship education, differentiating it from family business education, and trace its origins. We explore pedagogical contents and practices to date. We offer a first mapping on the conceptual level by pairing categories of stakeholders with the main learning goals of each category. More importantly,...
Science, Technology and Engineering Entrepreneurship Education (STEE) might raise student awareness towards the opportunities seeking challenges of entrepreneurship to promote technology transfer. However, despite the face validity of teaching technology entrepreneurship, there has traditionally been a weak link between the fields of research entre...
Research summary
Anticipating 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 othe...
This special issue is critical to keeping Science and Technology Entrepreneurship Education in synchrony with the changing landscape resulting from developments in Information and Communication Technology. Six papers address the interaction of these enabling technologies with Science and Technology Entrepreneurship Education. The issue provides the...
We invite you to submit your research to the Track T03_15 “Entrepreneurial Education, Academic Entrepreneurship and Entrepreneurial University”, within the SIG 03: Entrepreneurship at the EURAM Conference 2021, which will be held in Montreal (Canada) from 16 to 18 June 2021.
Short description:
Universities should update their knowledge, modernize...
Scholars have long studied small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and recognize the need for SMEs to postulate strategies to compete and succeed in the global market. In the current ultra-competitive business environment, SMEs face several internal and external challenges. In this introduction to the Special Issue (SI), we review the theoretical...
Objetivo: Usando uma perspectiva multidisciplinar, este artigo objetiva tratar da questão da legitimidade percebida pelos PEs a partir de uma revisão de literatura que cobre todas as áreas de estudo que mostraram algum interesse pela noção de legitimidade de professores.
Método: Buscou-se os mais relevantes artigos lidando com o conceito, sem foca...
Entrepreneurial effort triggers action towards business creation and constitutes the ultimate link between intention and action. Although occupations play a significant role in entrepreneurial entry, extant research has not thoroughly investigated primary occupational characteristics as specific antecedents of entrepreneurial effort. We contribute...
This paper aims to propose a new perspective on Necessity Entrepreneurship (NE). This phenomenon is indeed widely considered in the literature as having no or a negative impact on economic growth and is therefore mostly depreciated by scholars. We argue that NE allows to socially integrate deprived individuals and increase their psychological and h...
Cognitive heuristics, biases, and overconfidence have been suggested as an explanation for entrepreneurial entry. Nevertheless, empirical research on the subject has produced mixed findings and has under-explored the cognitive mechanisms leading to overconfidence in entrepreneurial settings. In two within-subject experiments, we focus on three cogn...
Despite a burgeoning literature on entrepreneurial identity and context, there are still many unchartered research avenues requiring more elaboration. This special issue of the International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation will try to answer some of the challenging issues on entrepreneurial identity and context by examining the topics th...
Dans ce numéro, nous proposons une série d’articles analysant, sous différents angles, le lien unissant innovation sociale et entrepreneuriat, dans un contexte territorial. Inscrire l’innovation sociale localement demande de tenir compte des dimensions identitaire (une entité spatiale dotée d’une identité propre), matérielle (un espace doté de prop...
Limitations of the research on the various leadership and strategic issues facing universities seeking to become more entrepreneurial has led this special issue to focus on the management, development, and implementation of this vision. We have solicited original research on the strategic challenges that these universities currently encounter. Rese...
This paper aims to introduce debates that recognise the role of ‘withness’ thinking and authenticity as two core issues in the EE field suggesting learning in this field as a discovery and exploration of entrepreneurial practices to which learners attach an authentic meaning, which addresses/ links to themselves. The paper proposes authentic learni...
Entrepreneurship teachers (ETs) evolve in an environment where different categories of people interact: students, teachers and stakeholders. Assuming one or more identities or roles, teachers, practitioners, ex-entrepreneurs and/ or researchers are the ‘transmitters’1 of entrepreneurship education (EE). The question of recognition of teachers’ prof...
This article assesses the performance of a technology business incubator program, established by the French government to support innovative new science and technology-based firms (NSTBF) that seek to commercialize laboratory research results. With a resource-based view and an institutional approach, this study predicts why some incubators may be m...
This article introduces various aspects of technology business incubators (TBIs), emphasizing their increasing role in the spatial context where they are used as platforms and drivers of regional entrepreneurial ecosystems. It outlines the key themes of the emerging role of TBIs in sustainable regional development: TBI biodiversity of ecosystems; a...
This call for papers is divided into two parts: an earlier one for a developmental
conference, and a second one for the Dialogue itself.
Initially, we are inviting scholars to submit manuscripts that are finalized or relatively
advanced. Each contribution will be evaluated through a double-blind review process but
using a developmental lens: the ob...
In literature there is agreement about the need of improving studies’ robustness with respect to the methods used to assess entrepreneurship education (Gielnik, Frese et al., 2015). Some authors have also stressed the concept that more complex phenomena should be investigated by looking, for example, at those variables that act as moderators in the...
Quelle est la légitimité des enseignants du domaine de l’entrepreneuriat est une question faiblement adressée par la littérature. Toujours en développement, l’entrepreneuriat en tant que domaine d’enseignement amène de l’innovation dans les contenus comme dans la forme et ces changements font naturellement l’objet de résistances, de tensions freina...
The objective of this chapter is to provide a comprehensive picture of the situation of women entrepreneurs in the MENA region. The study is based on an original survey conducted by the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) in six countries—Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Palestine and Tunisia, between 2015 and 2016. The main...
Questions we care about:
While the entrepreneurial passion (EP) has attracted attention of researchers, this conceptual paper aims to show how a combination of EP and the dualistic model of passion (DMP) developed principally by social psychology scholars, would be useful to generate new insights regarding the impact of passionate entrepreneurship...
Entrepreneurial Opportunities: How do Cognitive Styles and Logics of Action Fit in?
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)...
This article introduces the Special Issue (SI) Emerging themes in Entrepreneurial Behaviours, Identities and Contexts. This SI focuses on advancing the entrepreneurship literature by enhancing understanding of the connections between entrepreneurial behaviours, identities and contexts. Thus, the research questions that this SI addresses are the fol...
Purpose
Developing on the base of theory of planned behaviour (TPB), the purpose of this paper is to investigate the relationship between perceived social support (SS) from one’s social network and entrepreneurial intention (EI). Moreover, mediating effect of other constructs of TPB, i.e., attitude towards entrepreneurship (ATE), subjective norms (...
This paper introduces the special issue of Entrepreneurship and Regional Development on bricolage in social entrepreneurship. We anchor this special issue at the heart of an emerging body of research indicating that bricolage is the most appropriate approach to consider social firms operating in an environment characterized by institutional constra...
This study is aimed to assess the quality of service provided by Malaysia Airlines and its impact on overall customer satisfaction. This study employed a convenience sampling method for collecting data from 460 respondents using a self-administered questionnaire, designed on five dimensions of AIRQUAL scale. Moreover, variance based structural equa...
The dynamics leading from intention to start-up remain poorly understood. Drawing on the mindset theory of action phases, our empirical study identifies a motivational and a volitional phase in the pre-start-up stage. Only during the motivational phase does entrepreneurial intention help identify future starters. Once individuals have crossed the s...
This special issue aims to shed light on how universities and other organizations can adapt to the new social and technological challenges in curriculum and instruction, thereby, seizing upon entrepreneurial opportunities in the emerging knowledge society. This special issue explores the impact of the digital transformations and social evolution on...
In this article we shed light on the determining factors affecting the development of female entrepreneurship in MENA countries. We overview social, legal and economic backgrounds and based on this review as well as our conducted studies, we draw a series of recommendations in order to overcome difficulties and foster female entrepreneurship in the...
Today, leaders and experts around the world understand that small businesses and entrepreneurs represent a potential solution to certain key issues currently facing global societies: unemployment, slow economic growth, poverty, lack of competitiveness, sustainable development targets, social incoherence, and so on. Thus, entrepreneurship has been a...
Many countries are turning to active labor market programs (ALMP) to increase individuals’ incentive to start a business and to reduce unemployment, but research on the effectiveness of such programs has produced mixed results and is still inconclusive at themacroeconomic level. This article examines the importance of ALMP targeted at entrepreneurs...
Few researchers have examined empirically the dynamics of human-non-human networking and its importance for strategic outcomes, particularly in the field of entrepreneurship. In this paper, we use Actor-Network Theory to observe and investigate the role of materially heterogeneous entities in the entrepreneurial network. Building on the results of...
De l’intention d’entreprendre au passage à l’acte, il existe souvent un décalage. Mais celui-ci est particulièrement important chez les jeunes Français. En partant des données de deux enquêtes internationales, les deux auteurs explorent quelques-uns des paradoxes liés à cette question déterminante.
Entrepreneurship is vital for companies’ success, to allow them to adapt and grow in today’s interlinked and turbulent business environments. Yet as they grow in size and complexity, many companies become less innovative and more rigid. The challenge of how to deal with these trends has led to the rise of the field of Corporate Entrepreneurship, lo...
This article is presenting an overview of the literature devoted to entrepreneurial learning and, more specifically, those research bringing environmental elements into the study of the entrepreneurial learning process. Then, it shows how each of the four Special Issue selected research papers contribute to enhancing our knowledge of the complexity...
Nous présentons dans cet article plusieurs perspectives de recherche, de nature à nous permettre de développer l’état de nos connaissances dans le champ de l’entrepreneuriat. Ces perspectives, qui viennent de nos convictions, de notre enracinement dans la culture et le contexte francophone et de notre compréhension du domaine de recherche, sont la...
In this study we have proposed a new Technology Acceptance and Use model named UTAUT3 i.e. an extended_ Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology. This study have explored the impact of "Personal Innovativeness" on Executive Business Students (by doing so, our study have extended UTAUT2).
Our proposed model i.e. UTAUT3 is published in Em...
This paper is the first in a JSBM special issue on entrepreneurship in family firms, i.e., the firm-level entrepreneurial activities and attitudes that occur when a family is considerably involved in an established organization. We provide a systematic literature review of 109 articles written on this growing issue, based on a framework that highli...
In this article, based on the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor data, we carried out several econometric analyses going back ten years for 25 OECD countries. We present the results of these analyses on the effects of start-up support programmes and the moderating role of the institutional framework, in terms of quantity and quality, on entrepreneuria...