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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 Professor of Entrepreneurship at Audencia Business School, France. With over 20 years of experience supporting entrepreneurs (creators, leaders, sellers, buyers, and successors) across diverse sectors, he transitioned from a consulting career, having accompanied more than 2,000 entrepreneurs, to academia to develop research and education in entrepreneurship.
He holds a Doctorate in Entrepreneurship from CNAM and an HDR from IAE Paris-Sorbonne. His research focuses on entrepreneurial networks, social capital, business succession, and family entrepreneurship, with publications in leading journals including Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, Entrepreneurship & Regional Development, and Technovation.
Vincent also serves as Social Media Editor for Entrepreneurship & Regional Development and has led innovative educational initiatives, notably the creation of a groundbreaking Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Bootcamp for 600 Audencia students in 2024.
Diplomas
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)
Experiences
Head of Department - Entrepreneurship, Strategy & Innovation
Audencia Business School, Nantes
2022 - 2025
Co responsable de majeure Entrepreuneuriat
Audencia Business School, Nantes
2021 - 2021
Head of Major - Entrepreneurship
Audencia Business School
2014 - 2019
Permanent Professor
Institut Supérieur de Commerce (ISC), Paris
2011 - 2014
Training Project Manager, Entrepreneur Programmes
Advancia Business School
2009 - 2011
Head
Club des Entrepreneurs CCIP-Advancia
2005 - 2009
Business Transfer Project Manager
CCI Paris, Paris
2005 - 2005
New venture support
CCI Paris, Paris
2005 - 2005
New venture support
Bidasoa-Activa, Irun
2003 - 2004
Visiting out
2019 - 2020
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
LEFEBVRE V., RADU LEFEBVRE M., GARTNER W. B., CLARKE J., (2021). Building multitemporal awareness and reflexivity in family business: A visual sensemaking exercise.
Entrepreneurship Education and Pedagogy, 4 (2), 194-203
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., (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
RADU LEFEBVRE, M., & LEFEBVRE, V. (2012). Faciliter la détection d’opportunités entrepreneuriales par la RSE. In DUPUICH, Françoise (Eds.), Regards croisés sur la RSE (pp. 145-170). l'Harmattan.
RADU LEFEBVRE, M., LEFEBVRE, V. (2016). Livre blanc : les jeunes et l'entrepreneuriat familial. Propositions pour lever les freins à la création ou l'intégration d'entreprises familiales. En partenariat avec les étudiants de la Majeure Entrepreneuriat.
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