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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
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., GARTNER W. B., CLARKE J., (2020). Building multitemporal awareness and reflexivity in family business: A visual sensemaking exercise.
Entrepreneurship Education and Pedagogy, 4 (2), 194-203
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
LEFEBVRE, V. (2021). Who Do You Think You Are? Who Do They Think You Are? The Golden Cage and the Silver Spoon. In M. R. Allen & W. B. Gartner (Ed.), Family Entrepreneurship (pp. 145–159). Springer.
RADU LEFEBVRE, M., LEFEBVRE, V., CLARKE, J., WILLIAM B. GARTNER, W. B. (2020). Entrepreneurial legacy: How narratives of the past, present and future affect entrepreneurship in business families. In Andrea Calabro (Ed.), A research agenda for family business. A way ahead for the field (pp. 73-86). Edward Elgar Publishing.
RADU LEFEBVRE, M., LEFEBVRE, V. (2018). Le poids de l'héritage : le mentorat face aux attentes des futurs actionnaires et dirigeants d'entreprises familiales. In LAFRANCHISE, Nathalie; ST-JEAN, Etienne and CUERRIER, Christine (Eds.), Le mentorat: théorie et pratique. Presses de l'Université du Québec.
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.
LEFEBVRE V., VERSHININA N., (2023). Scaling up for good: the role of actors at the centerof the organizational scaling-up process.
LEFEBVRE V., VERSHININA N., JACK S., (2023). The micro-foundations of new venture growth at the early development stage: A phenomenological perspective on growing.
RADU-LEFEBVRE M., VERSHININA N., LEFEBVRE V., (2022). Living up to self-imposed standards: enacting moral leadership and innovation as gendered practice in family business.
RADU-LEFEBVRE M., LEFEBVRE V., (2021). Becoming an entrepreneur: it takes more than founding a venture.
LEFEBVRE V., RADU-LEFEBVRE M., (2021). Minding the social capital gap between new venture stages.
LEFEBVRE V., VERSHININA N., (2021). The role of learning in organizing and growing processes at a new venture stage.
LEFEBVRE V., RADU-LEFEBVRE M., GARTNER W. B., CLARKE J., (2020). Portraits of the past, present and future of families and their businesses.
RADU LEFEBVRE M., RONTEAU S., LEFEBVRE V., MCADAM Maura, (2019). Entrepreneuring as a liminal space for successors' emancipation.
LEFEBVRE V., ANDERSON A., (2019). Learning the practice of entrepreneuring social situating through social capital.
LEFEBVRE V., RADU LEFEBVRE M., CLARKE Jean, GARTNER William B., (2019). Entrepreneurial legacy: Images of facilitating or inhibiting successor entrepreneurial Identity.
LEFEBVRE V., RADU LEFEBVRE M., GARTNER William B., (2019). Fighting shadows of the past: Entrepreneuring as emancipation in Family Firms.
LEFEBVRE V., (2019). Family Entrepreneurship Executive Education.
RADU LEFEBVRE M., RONTEAU S., LEFEBVRE V., MCADAM M., (2019). Entrepreneuring as a liminal space for successors' emancipation.
RADU LEFEBVRE M., LEFEBVRE V., CLARKE Jean, GARTNER William B., (2018). Past, Present and Future: Understanding Family Entrepreneurship in Successors’ Prospective and Retrospective Thinking through Visual Narrative Analysis.
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.
LEFEBVRE Vincent, RADU LEFEBVRE Miruna, DELCHET-COCHET Karen, (2015). RSE et Entrepreneuriat : vers un croisement des cadres conceptuels.
LEFEBVRE Vincent, RADU LEFEBVRE Miruna, (2015). L'Image Métier de l'accompagnement entrepreneurial : les déterminants d'une carrière.
LEFEBVRE Vincent, MARCHAIS ROUBELAT Anne, (2015). Entrepreneuriat et territoire : dialogue entre les Sciences de Gestion et la Géographie.
LEFEBVRE Vincent, SAINT-JEAN Etienne, MARCHETTI Loredana, MESSEGHE Karim, VERZAT Caroline, (2015). Enjeux et facettes de la recherche sur l’accompagnement entrepreneurial (workshop).
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?.
LEFEBVRE Vincent, (2014). Proposition d’approche méthodologique pour l’analyse des réseaux formels d’entrepreneurs.
LAVIOLETTE E.-M., LEFEBVRE Vincent, RADU LEFEBVRE Miruna, (2014). Business Modeling as Design Thinking: Implications for Entrepreneurship Education.
RADU LEFEBVRE Miruna, LEFEBVRE Vincent, (2013). Investir au capital d’un nouveau projet entrepreneurial : une histoire de confiance ?.
RADU LEFEBVRE Miruna, LEFEBVRE Vincent, O'SHEA Noreen, (2013). Entrepreneurs: the last of the shamans? Heroic metaphors of entrepreneurs in the French press.
LEFEBVRE V., RADU LEFEBVRE M., DELÉCOLLE Thierry, (2013). Trust at first sight ? The impact of entrepreneurs’ pitch presentations on business angels’ investment decisions in France and Germany..
RADU LEFEBVRE Miruna, LEFEBVRE Vincent, (2011). L'élaboration du Business Model en situation d'accompagnement : une co-construction de la boîte à alternatives du développement sur le modèle de la poubelle ?.
RADU LEFEBVRE Miruna, LEFEBVRE Vincent, (2016). Livre blanc : les jeunes et l'entrepreneuriat familial. Propositions pour lever les freins à la création ou l'intégration d'entreprises familiales.
LEFEBVRE V., (2015). Livre Blanc Entrepreneuriat Etudiant.
Press articles
LEFEBVRE V., (2023). Entretien « Le véritable start-uppeur de 2023, c’est l’agriculteur ».
Ouest-France
Broadcast
LEFEBVRE V., RADU-LEFEBVRE M., VERSHININA N., DIMOV D., (2023). STEP conversation #3 : Growth and Family Business Succession.
Chaine Youtube Audencia
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