Sébastien Ronteau

• PhD in Management Sciences
• Professor of Entrepreneurship at Audencia Business School

The concept of Multi-Sided Platforms (MSPs) has significantly impacted the management field by facilitating interactions between distinct, interdependent groups, revolutionizing numerous industries. While extensive research has examined platform models, further exploration of MSPs in Business-to-Business (B2B) settings, particularly at the supply c...

A business model basically describes the way a company makes money. Yet, often we use digital services for free (e.g. Facebook, Google or WhatsApp) or for what seems to be a relatively minor price (e.g. Blablacar, Airbnb, and Amazon). Digital business models are different to traditional business models. Digital Business Models explains the key cha...

Strategic management has extensively contributed to the development of business model research. Although marketing concepts (e.g., customers, value creation, delivery, and exchange) form an essential part of any business model description, from an academic standpoint, the strategy literature has been slow to incorporate contributions from the marke...

Following Alistair Anderson’s legacy of entrepreneuring as a process of becoming, this paper engages with entrepreneuring as emancipation in a family business context. Over a period of seven years, we witnessed the journey of a family business successor engaged in a challenging process of power transfer, ultimately leading him to leave the successi...

With the advent of the digital economy, two-sided platforms have gained significant momentum over the last two decades. Contrary to traditional businesses, two-sided platforms do not have linear value creation; instead, they create value by enabling interactions or exchange between two different groups of customers. This configuration creates chall...

An increasing number of businesses have adopted a platform business model. Plat- form companies such as Airbnb, Amazon, Facebook, Google, Salesforce and Uber are amongst the world's most valuable companies and have revolutionized their respec- tive industries. But what are platforms? Is there a unique definition? How do they innovate, and what is t...

This paper provides a Systematic Literature Review (‘SLR’) of the emerging ‘entrepreneurship-as-practice’ (EaP) research field. It advances EaP as a ‘platform of expression’ that enriches entrepreneurship research. Following the ‘practice turn’ in social sciences, entrepreneurship is also interested in this new approach. The goal of this article is...

The purpose of this paper is to delineate the current state of the art of sharing economy (SE) research and practice. It provides a new framework to help managers and academics to consider this field with the right managerial and theoretical lenses. A systematic literature on the SE was conducted, resulting in the analysis of 114 articles in the ma...

Le business model (BM) peut être considéré comme une narration que mobilisent les entrepreneurs pour donner vie à leur projet. Dans un contexte d’innovation, cette narration peut entrer en conflit avec le BM traditionnel de l’industrie. A partir d’une étude de cas longitudinale, nous analysons la manière dont une start-up modifie de manière success...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the explanatory power of existing theories of entrepreneurship. The authors find gaps and fragmentation and offer propose a different approach – a theory of entrepreneuring – a theory of practice. Design/methodology/approach This is a conceptual paper, but the authors draw heavily on the literature....

La littérature aborde la question de la construction de business model (BM) à travers deux approches mobilisées de manière exclusive : l’approche adaptative et l’approche performative. Selon ces perspectives, le BM peut être considéré comme une représentation d’un projet entrepreneurial ou comme un outil de construction du projet. Nous proposons de...

L’objet de cette recherche est de mieux comprendre l’émergence d’une opportunité entrepreneuriale. Dans la littérature, une conversation théorique oppose deux approches : l’une centrée sur le contexte, qui postule la préexistence de l’opportunité et réduit le rôle de l’entrepreneur à celui de « découvreur » ; l’autre centrée sur l’acteur qui créé s...

Multi-sided platforms bring together two or more distinct but interdependent groups of customers, normally described as B2B and B2C. Two-sided platforms have proliferated rapidly with the Internet and this has led to the development of new business models to monetize innovative value propositions in online markets. This paper puts forward a model o...

Résumé Quelle est la portée de l'action de l'entrepreneur innovant ? A-t-il conscience du changement qu'il initie dans son industrie d'ancrage ? Cet article appréhende la question du changement entrepreneurial en contexte innovant. Le succès de l'entrepreneur innovant dépend tout à la fois de sa capacité à attirer des ressources et des réseaux à lu...

“Tradition is a continuous process of innovation”. This sentence is a leitmotiv for Kotaro Nishibori, one of the last Japanese entrepreneurs in the wagasa sector (Japanese traditional umbrellas). Based on the symbolic path of this entrepreneur, this exploratory research investigates embedded dynamics in which the entrepreneur involves himself and h...

Résumé S’appuyant sur l’analyse du projet Snowblade au sein de la société de fabrication de skis Salomon, un projet innovant qui s’est avéré un succès, les auteurs montrent l’importance pour les intrapreneurs de pouvoir détourner des ressources en excédent dans l’organisation et d’obtenir le soutien des cadres intermédiaires et, ultimement, celui d...

For many years now, business ecosystems have refreshed strategic paradigms. They have developed our understanding of competitive dynamics among value chains. Nevertheless, strategical and managerial behaviors of a particular organizations’ category are still misunderstood. Recent developments of research dealing with ‘the keystone advantage’ have s...

Accession Number: 43734606; Ronteau, Sebastien; Durand, Thomas; Issue Info: jun/jui2009, Issue 195, p111; Thesaurus Term: ORGANIZATIONAL structure; Thesaurus Term: IN-house services (Business); Thesaurus Term: OFFICE management; Thesaurus Term: ORGANIZATION charts; Thesaurus Term: MANAGEMENT controls; NAICS/Industry Codes: 561110 Office Administrat...