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Department
Département
Entrepreneurship, Strategy & Innovation
Skills
Start-up
Startup nation
Entrepreneurial Management
Covid and remote work
Conflicts
Working in start-ups
Entrepreneurship
Management
Venture capital
Investments
Biography
Biographie
Claire Champenois is Professor in Entrepreneurship at Audencia Business School with a strong focus on management and organizational perspectives.
She specializes on :
- Managerial practices and HRM in entrepreneurial organisations and start-ups,
- Conflict management between entrepreneurs and their partners (especially venture-capitalists)
- The collective representations and meanings of “start-up”, for example E. Macron “ Start-up Nation”
- Entrepreneurship as practice approaches (Entrepreneurship-as-Practice; Entrepreneuring; Entrepreneurship as Organization-creation)
- Social embeddedness / socialized approaches to entrepreneurship
Before writing a PhD, she graduated from H.E.C. Business School – Paris.
She worked as a journalist at l’Usine Nouvelle (in Biotechnology) and in a biotechnology start-up in Germany.
Diplomas
Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches, Business administration, Entrepreneurship, Strategy and Innovation
IAE Paris - Sorbonne, Paris
(2023)
Doctorate
Centre de Sociologie des Organisations, Paris
(2006)
Master’s degree in Sociology
Sciences Po Paris, Paris
(2001)
HEC
HEC Paris, Paris
(1998)
Experiences
Associate Researcher
IAE Paris - Sorbonne, Paris
Since 2022
Visiting Researcher
Lancaster University Management School, Lancaster
2022 - 2023
Head of major - Entrepeneurship
Audencia Business School, Nantes
2021 - 2022
Research head - Business & Society Department
Audencia Business School, Nantes
2017 - 2020
Director of the Institute for Entrepreneurship (renamed ‘IPIE’, then ‘IPRGIE’)
Audencia, Nantes
2009 - 2016
Research Fellow
Centre de Sociologie des Organisations
2006 - 2011
Lecturer
Université de Cergy-Pontoise, Cergy-Pontoise
2004 - 2006
Lecturer
Université de Versailles, Versailles
2003 - 2004
Lecturer
Université Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines
2003 - 2004
Lecturer
ESC Rouen, Rouen
2002 - 2014
Supervision of a group of students - Sociology of Action DEA
I.E.P. Paris, Paris
2002 - 2002
Executive assistant for strategy and communication
Santhera Pharmaceuticals, Heidelberg
2000 - 2000
Journalist
L'Usine Nouvelle, Editions Biotechnologies
1998 - 2000
Financial analyst
Crédit Lyonnais, New York
1996 - 1997
Visiting out
2022 - 2022
Lancaster University Management School, Great Britain : Visiting Researcher
2020 - 2025
IMT Atlantique, France : Entrepreneurship & Energy
Publications
Published
CHAMPENOIS C., DIMOV D., SILVIA GHERARDI S., HJORTH D., THOMPSON N. A., (2025). Theorizing the Processes and Practices of Entrepreneuring at Work.
Human Relations, 78 (6), 651-662
BEN-HAFAÏEDH C., CHAMPENOIS C., COONEY T. M., SCHJOEDT L., (2024). Entrepreneurship as collective action: The next frontier.
International Small Business Journal, 42 (1), 3-13
CHAMPENOIS C., SAURIER D., BÉLIARD E., (2024). “Start-up nation”: The making and performativity of an empty signifier.
M@n@gement, 27 (e8904), 1-13
CHAMPENOIS C., JACK S., HJORTH D., DODD S., (2024). The Other Organization: Heterotopia, management and entrepreneurship.
Journal of Management Inquiry, 1-16
CHAMPENOIS C., JACK S., (2022). A non-workshop on a socialized view of entrepreneurship: building and extending a community of practice for work on embeddedness.
Entrepreneurship and Regional Development, 34 (7-8), 515-541
CHAMPENOIS C., SAURIER D., JACQUEMIN A., GERMAIN O., (2022). HETEROTOPIA (Entrepreneurship as Heterotopia).
Revue de l'Entrepreneuriat, 21 (4), 16-18
TEAGUE B., TUNSTALL R., CHAMPENOIS C., GARTNER W. B., (2021). An Introduction to Entrepreneurship as Practice (EAP).
International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behavior and Research, 27 (3), 569-578
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
CHAMPENOIS C., ETZKOWITZ Henry, (2018). From boundary line to boundary space: The creation of hybrid organizations as a Triple Helix micro-foundation.
Technovation, 76-77, 28-39
CHAMPENOIS Claire, DEVIGNE Michel, PUYOU François-Régis, (2017). Le rôle de l’organisation du travail des capital investisseurs dans la construction de relations interpersonnelles avec les entrepreneurs.
Finance Contrôle Stratégie, 20 (4)
CHAMPENOIS Claire, DEVIGNE Michel, PUYOU François-Régis, (2016). How can Venture Capitalists-Owner Managers conflicts be managed? If you want peace, agree to keep the peace.
Journal of Small Business Management, 54 (S1), 189-215
CHAMPENOIS Claire, (2012). How can a cluster policy enhance entrepreneurship? Evidence from the German ‘Bioregio’ case.
Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy, 30 (5), 796-815
CHAMPENOIS Claire, (2008). La co-localisation d'entreprises innovantes comme non-choix. L'exemple de l'industrie allemande des biotechnologies.
Géographie Économie Société, 10 (1), 61-85
CHAMPENOIS Claire, (2007). Dynamique de constitution de l’industrie allemande des biotechnologies et diversité des modèles d’entreprise.
Revue d'Économie Industrielle, (120), 95-114
CHAMPENOIS C., ENGEL D., HENERIC O., (2006). What kind of German biotechnology start-ups do venture capital companies and corporate investors prefer for equity investments?.
Applied Economics, 38, 505-518
CHAMPENOIS, C. (2017). Janssen and OSE Immunotherapeutics: Deal Strategies in a European Context. In SIMON, F. & GIOVANNETTI. G. (Eds.), Managing Biotechnology: From Science to Market in the Digital Age (pp. 52-53). John Wiley & Sons.
CHAMPENOIS, C. (2014). Financement. In CHAUVIN, P.M.; GROSSETI, M. and ZALIO, P.P. (Eds.), Dictionnaire Sociologique de l’Entrepreneuriat (pp. 300-320). Presses de Sciences Po.
CHAMPENOIS, C. (2013). Kerviel - Société Générale : une affaire financière… mais aussi de GRH. In ARNAUD, Nicolas (Eds.), Nouveaux Enjeux de la GRH. Les Pratiques Actuelles et Etudes de Cas. (pp. 17-33). Ellipses.
CHAMPENOIS, C. (2011). Stabilité et transformation des règles. L’évaluation des firmes de biotechnologie par les investisseurs en capital-risque allemands. In FRANCOIS, Pierre (Eds.), Vie et mort des Institutions marchandes. Presses de Sciences Po.
AUVITY B., CATOIR BRISSON M. J., CHAMPENOIS C., GUÉRINEAU M., SAURIER D., TESSIER P., (2025). Accompagner et analyser la réappropriation de la technique dans des environnements contraints : recherche interdisciplinaire sur la démarche low tech.
CHAMPENOIS C., SILVIA GHERARDI S., (2024). Epistemic disobedience: decolonizing entrepreneurship theory through a posthumanist critique.
CHAMPENOIS C., SHYMKO Y., VERSHININA N., (2024). Self-care as the pursuit of eusociality: A Foucauldian perspective of self-care at work in the times of crisis.
CHAMPENOIS C., RAMOGLOU S., DEVIGNE M., CHANDRA Y., (2024). Are desirable futures possible without bureaucratic work? On the tedious of everyday entrepreneurship.
SHYMKO Y., CHAMPENOIS C., (2024). Self-care as introspective and extrospective relationalities: a Foucauldian perspective of self-care at work in the times of crisis.
CHAMPENOIS C., SAURIER D., (2023). Expérience de non figement d’un terrain Low Tech : l’entrepreneuriat comme “tactique”?.
CHAMPENOIS C., DEVIGNE M., LE PENDEVEN B., PUYOU F.-R., (2023). How to build cooperation amidst conflict? A dynamic study of Entrepreneurs-Venture Capitalists relations.
CHAMPENOIS C., (2023). Entrepreneurial Agency as Organizing.
CHAMPENOIS C., (2023). A SOCIALLY EMBEDDED PERSPECTIVE ON ENTREPRENEURSHIP.
CHAMPENOIS C., (2023). A socially embedded perspective on entrepreneurship : the HdR - process, outcome and questions. “Research Thursdays”, ESI department's Brown Bag Seminar.
CHAMPENOIS C., DEVIGNE M., PUYOU F.-R., LE PENDEVEN B., (2021). Making conflicts cooperative in VC-entrepreneur relationships: voicing out and escalating dissent.
CHAMPENOIS C., SAURIER D., (2021). De la fabrique idéologique de la « start-up nation » : la mise au bûcher d’une petite phrase.
CHAMPENOIS C., DEVIGNE M., ANDERSON A., (2021). Doing entrepreneurship, doing organisation. Organising bureaucratisation with entrepreneurial agency.
CHAMPENOIS C., DEVIGNE M., (2020). Doing entrepreneurship, doing (formal) organizations.
CHAMPENOIS C., (2019). Formal Organization and Routinization of Charisma: Organization-Creation by Entrepreneurs.
CHAMPENOIS C., DEVIGNE M., (2019). Entrepreneurship as organization-creation and the ‘routinization of charisma’.What sense do entrepreneurs make of their bureaucratization practices?.
CHAMPENOIS C., LEFEBVRE V., RONTEAU S., (2017). Entrepreneurship as Practice: a systematic literature review of a nascent field?.
RADU LEFEBVRE M., LEFEBVRE V., CHAMPENOIS C., ANDERSON A., (2017). Values at the heart of family-business identity: A family CEOs’ perspective.
CHAMPENOIS Claire, ETZKOWITZ H., (2016). Boundary space in Triple helix systems. The creation of hybrid organizations supporting entrepreneurship.
ETZKOWITZ Henry, CHAMPENOIS C., (2016). Boundary Spaces within Triple Helix.
CHAMPENOIS Claire, DEVIGNE Michel, PUYOU François-Régis, (2015). How can Venture Capitalists-Owners Managers conflicts be managed? Evidence from a French case.
RADU LEFEBVRE Miruna, LEFEBVRE Vincent, CHAMPENOIS Claire, (2014). The Social Representation of Responsible Entrepreneurship in French Family Businesses.
RADU LEFEBVRE Miruna, LEFEBVRE Vincent, CHAMPENOIS Claire, (2014). Responsible Entrepreneurship: norm and/or ideal of French family businesses?.
CHAMPENOIS Claire, DEVIGNE Michel, PUYOU François-Régis, (2013). Organiser des relations « capital » : Le rôle de l’organisation du travail des capital-investisseurs dans la construction de relations interpersonnelles avec les entrepreneurs.
CHAMPENOIS Claire, DEVIGNE Michel, PUYOU François-Régis, (2011). Le travail des investisseurs minoritaires en capital.
CHAMPENOIS Claire, (2011). How can a cluster policy enhance entrepreneurship? The BioRegio" case".
CHAMPENOIS Claire, (2009). The rationalized entrepreneur" model. Conclusions from the German entrepreneurship dynamics in biotechnology".
CHAMPENOIS Claire, (2008). Public policy and support networks Public policy and support networks in the German BioRegios" ".
CHAMPENOIS Claire, (2008). Genesis and stabilization of hybrid local innovation networks: the German BioRegios" case ".
CHAMPENOIS C., LAGUESTE Noémie, (2018). E-Solution : pratiques de GRH et de management au service d'une forte croissance dans une start-up.
CCMP
CHAMPENOIS C., LAGUESTE Noémie, (2018). E-Solution: HRM and management practices fuel strong growth of start-up.
CCMP
Press articles
CHAMPENOIS C., (2020). Le confinement comme épreuve du lien : quels enseignements pour notre société ?.
Le Major
CHAMPENOIS C., SAURIER D., (2020). Macron, Président Entrepreneur !.
Forbes
CHAMPENOIS C., (2020). The lockdown as a test for social bonds.
Ambition
CHAMPENOIS Claire, DEVIGNE Michel, PUYOU François-Régis, (2017). Réduire les tensions entre entrepreneurs et investisseurs.
Les Echos, (22358)
Broadcast
CHAMPENOIS C., (2017). Vidéo « Audencia RnB Lab » présentant un article de recherche.
Chaine Youtube Audencia
Professional conference
CHAMPENOIS C., (2023). Festival Low-tech Nantes - Intervention lors de la Table ronde “Essor des formations Low-tech".
Scientific activities
Reviewer for an academic journal
Review for Journal of Small Business Management on Women LeadershipReview for Journal of Small Business Management on Women Leadership
2025
Review for Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice
2024
European Management JournalEuropean Management Journal
2023
Human Relations
2022
Small Business Economics
2022
Entrepreneurship and Regional Development
2021
Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice
2018
International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behavior and Research
2018
Entrepreneurship and Regional Development
2018
M@n@gement
2018
Revue de l'Organisation Responsable
2016
Member of the editorial board of an academic journal
Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice (FT Top50/ AUdencia 4 journal) - Member of the Editorial Review Board
2023
Associate Editor of an academic journal
Associate Editor of the Review of Entrepreneurship / Revue de l'Entrepreneuriat
2023
Guest Editor of an academic journal
Guest Editor (in Top 50/ Audencia 4 journal "Human Relations")- Special Issue on « Organization-Creation: Theorizing the Processes and Practices..
2022
Guest Editor (International Small Business Journal; AUDENCIA 3) - Special Issue on "Entrepreneurship as collective action: the next frontier"
2022
Guest Editor - Special Issue on " ‘New’cluster policies: a process-based approach"Guest Editor - Special Issue on " ‘New’cluster policies: a process-based approach"
2011