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Sébastien
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Sébastien
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- Co-Leader of the Exploration and Entrepreneurship Unit
- Adjunct Teaching Fellow at Trinity Business School
- Visiting Lecturer on Digital Business Models (MSc in Digital Marketing - Trinity Business School)
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Department
Département
Entrepreneurship, Strategy & Innovation
Teaching areas
Domaine d’enseignement
Entrepreneurship
Entrepreneurial Project and Business Plan
Digital Entrepreneurship
Digital Business Models
Entrepreneurial Business Plan
Research areas
Domaine de recherche
Business Models
Entrepreneurship as Practice
Digital Business Models
Innovation and Entrepreneurship
Digital Platforms
Skills
Entrepreneurship
Strategy
Management
Digital Platforms
Digital Business Models
Business Model
Support and Business Incubators
Innovation
Biography
Biographie
Professor in Entrepreneurship at Audencia, Sébastien conducts teaching and coaching activities oriented towards sensibilisation, specialisation and supporting of entrepreneurial and innovative activities for undergraduates, Master degrees and Executive Education.
Sébastien was head of the academic Incubator joined to l'Alliance of Centrale Nantes - Audencia Business School - Ensa Nantes, from 2016 until 2019. He's now co-head of the Entrepreneur's Hub at Audencia, which envision to make Audencia a place of exploration, experimentation and responsible transformation through and for the entrepreneurial commitment of our communities.
Graduated from Ecole Normale Supérieure de Cachan and holding a PhD in Management Sciences from Ecole Centrale Paris, his areas of expertise and research include Digital Business Models, entrepreneurship-as-practice and the entrepreneurial process, and strategic communication for entrepreneurs.
Diplomas
Doctorate, Business administration, Strategy
Ecole Centrale Paris, Paris
(2007)
DEA, Business administration, Management
Ecole Centrale Paris, Paris
(2002)
"Agrégation" in Economics & Management - Option Accounting - Finance
Ecole Normale Supérieure de Cachan, Cachan
(2002)
Experiences
Visiting Lecturer on Digital Business Models (MSc in Digital Marketing - Trinity Business School)
Trinity Business School, Dublin
2025 - 2025
Visiting Lecturer on Digital Business Models (MSc in Digital Marketing - Trinity Business School)
Trinity College, Dublin
2024 - 2024
Visiting Lecturer on Digital Business Models (MSc in Digital Marketing - Trinity Business School)
Trinity College, Dublin
2023 - 2023
Visiting Lecturer on Digital Business Models (MSc in Digital Marketing - Trinity Business School)
Trinity College, Dublin
2022 - 2022
Visiting Lecturer on Digital Business Models (MSc in Digital Marketing - Trinity Business School)
Trinity College, Dublin
2021 - 2021
Co-Leader of the Exploration and Entrepreneurship Unit
Audencia Business School, Nantes
Since 2020
Visiting Lecturer on Digital Business Models (MSc in Digital Marketing - Trinity Business School)
Trinity College, Dublin
2020 - 2020
Responsable filière Entreprenariat ABM
Audencia Business School, Nantes
2019 - 2020
Visiting Lecturer on Digital Business Models (MSc in Digital Marketing - Trinity Business School)
Trinity College, Dublin
2019 - 2019
Adjunct Teaching Fellow at Trinity Business School
Trinity College, Dublin
Since 2018
Visiting Lecturer on Digital Business Models (MSc in Digital Marketing - Trinity Business School)
Trinity College, Dublin
2018 - 2018
Visiting Lecturer on Digital Business Models (MSc in Digital Marketing - Trinity Business School)
Trinity College, Dublin
2018 - 2018
Visiting Lecturer on Digital Business Models (MSc in Digital Marketing - Trinity Business School)
Trinity College, Dublin
2018 - 2018
Visiting Lecturer on Digital Business Models (MSc in Digital Marketing - Trinity Business School)
Trinity College, Dublin
Since 2017
Visiting Lecturer - MSc in Digital Marketing
UCD Michael Smurfit Graduate Business School, Dublin
2014 - 2016
Professor in Entrepreneurship & Strategy
ESSCA School of Management, Angers
2008 - 2015
Visiting Professor in Entrepreneurship & Strategy
INSEEC
2008 - 2015
Visiting Professor in Entrepreneurship & Strategy
Ecole des Mines de Nantes, Nantes
2008 - 2015
Other experiences
Head of the joined Academic Incubator Centrale-Audencia-Ensa
Audencia Business School, Nantes
2016 - 2018
Visiting out
2024 - 2024
Trinity College, Ireland : Visiting Lecturer on Digital Business Models (MSc in Digital Marketing - Trinity Business School)
2024 - 2024
Politecnico di Milano, : Visiting Lecturer - International MBA Part-Time at POLIMI
2023 - 2023
Trinity College, Ireland : Visiting Lecturer on Digital Business Models (MSc in Digital Marketing - Trinity Business School)
2022 - 2022
Trinity College, Ireland : Visiting Lecturer on Digital Business Models (MSc in Digital Marketing - Trinity Business School)
2021 - 2021
Trinity College, Ireland : Visiting Lecturer on Digital Business Models - MSc in digital marketing strategy at Trinity Business SchoolVisiting Lecturer on Digital Business Models - MSc in digital marketing strategy at Trinity Business School
2020 - 2020
Trinity College, Ireland : Visiting Lecturer on Digital Business Models - MSc in digital marketing strategy at Trinity Business School
2019 - 2019
Trinity College, Ireland : Visiting Lecturer on Digital Business Models - MSc in Digital Marketing (Trinity Business School)
2018 - 2018
Trinity College, Ireland : Visiting Lecturer on Digital Business Models - Full-Time and Part-Time MSc in Digital Marketing (Trinity Business School)
2018 - 2018
Trinity College, Ireland : Visiting Lecturer on Digital Business Models - Full-Time and Part-Time MSc in Digital Marketing (Trinity Business School)
2018 - 2018
Trinity College, Ireland : Visiting Lecturer on Digital Business Models - Full-Time and Part-Time MSc in Digital Marketing (Trinity Business School)
2017 - 2017
Trinity College, Ireland : Visiting Lecturer on Digital Business Models - Full-Time and Part-Time MSc in Digital Marketing (Trinity Business School)
2017 - 2017
Trinity College, Ireland : Visiting Lecturer on Digital Business Models - Full-Time and Part-Time MSc in Digital Marketing (Trinity Business School)
2013 - 2015
UCD Michael Smurfit Graduate Business School, : Visiting Professor
Publications
Published
PATRUCCO A. S., TRABUCCHI D., BUGANZA T., MUZELLEC L., RONTEAU S., (2024). Technology-enabled multi-sided platforms in B2B relationships: A critical analysis and directions for future research.
Industrial Marketing Management, 122 (October 2024), A2-A11
TRABUCCHI D., MUZELLEC L., RONTEAU S., BUGANZA T., (2022). The platforms’ DNA: drivers of value creation in digital two-sided platforms.
Technology Analysis and Strategic Management, 34 (8), 891-904
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
MAUCUER R., RENAUD A., RONTEAU S., MUZELLEC L., (2022). What can we learn from marketers? A bibliometric analysis of the marketing literature on business model research.
Long Range Planning, 55 (5), Article N°102219
BUGANZA T., MUZELLEC L., RONTEAU S., TRABUCCHI D., (2021). Platform-driven innovation: Unveiling research and business opportunities.
Creativity and Innovation Management, 30 (1), 6-11
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
TRABUCCHI Daniel, MUZELLEC Laurent, RONTEAU S., (2019). Sharing economy: seeing through the fog.
Internet Research: Electronic Networking Applications and Policy, 29 (5), pp. 996-1013
MAUCUER Raphaël, RONTEAU Sébastien, LESAGE Xavier, (2018). Emergence d’un business model innovant dans une start-up : le rôle structurant des narrations.
Finance Contrôle Stratégie, Avril 2018 (NS-1), 1-24
LECOCQ Xavier, MANGEMATIN Vincent, MAUCUER Raphaël, RONTEAU S., (2018). Du modèle d’affaires à l’écosystème : comprendre les transformations en cours.
Finance Contrôle Stratégie, Avril (NS-1), 1-7
ANDERSON A., RONTEAU S., (2017). Towards an entrepreneurial theory of practice: emerging ideas for emerging economies.
Journal of Entrepreneurship in Emerging Economies, 9 (2), 110-120
RONTEAU S., MUZELLEC Laurent, LAMBKIN Mary, (2015). Two-sided Internet platforms: A business model lifecycle perspective.
Industrial Marketing Management, 45 (2015), 139-150
RONTEAU S., LESAGE Xavier, (2012). Assessing Embedded Agency of Entrepreneurs in Context of Internationalization and Innovation: An Exploratory Research.
International Business Research, 5 (6), 62-72
RONTEAU S., LESAGE Xavier, HMIMDA Nassef, (2012). Changement entrepreneurial et pouvoir agentiel de l’entrepreneur.
Revue Interdisciplinaire Management, Homme et Entreprise (RIMHE), 2012 (3), 42-56
BUENO-MERINO Pascale, GRANDVAL Samuel, RONTEAU S., (2011). L’accès à l’excédent de ressources comme préalable au succès des initiatives intrapreneuriales : les leçons tirées du projet Snowblade de Salomon.
Gestion : Revue Internationale de Gestion, 36 (4), 34-43
RONTEAU S., DURAND Thomas, (2009). Comment certaines organisations innovent dans la durée.
Revue Française de Gestion, 195 (5), 111-138
RONTEAU S., (2009). Embrasser la condition de firme-pivot : dynamiques d’innovation de Dassault Systèmes dans son écosystème d’affaires.
Management et Avenir, 28 (8), 196-215
RONTEAU S., MUZELLEC L., SAXENA DEEPAK D., TRABUCCHI D., (2022). Digital Business Models.
De Gruyter
GRANDVAL Samuel, RONTEAU S., (2011). Business Model: Configuration et Renouvellement.
Hachette, les Fondamentaux
JACQUEMIN, A., LESAGE, X., & RONTEAU, S. (2014). Le comportement de l’entrepreneur: démarche causale, bricolage ou effectuation ?. In Gilles Lecointre (Ed.), Le Grand Livre de l'économie PME 2015 (pp. 107-129). Gualino Editeur.
RADU LEFEBVRE M., RONTEAU S., LEFEBVRE V., MCADAM Maura, (2019). Entrepreneuring as a liminal space for successors' emancipation.
RADU LEFEBVRE M., RONTEAU S., LEFEBVRE V., MCADAM M., (2019). Entrepreneuring as a liminal space for successors' emancipation.
TRABUCCHI Daniel, MUZELLEC Laurent, RONTEAU S., (2018). Drivers Of Value Creation In Two-Sided Digital Platforms: An Exploratory Analysis.
COLE Isadora, MUZELLEC Laurent, RONTEAU S., (2017). Search Engine Advertisement: Do Google end-users care about being the product?.
CHAMPENOIS C., LEFEBVRE V., RONTEAU S., (2017). Entrepreneurship as Practice: a systematic literature review of a nascent field?.
MAUCUER Raphaël, RONTEAU S., LESAGE Xavier, (2015). Construction et performativité d'un business model innovant : le cas Ornikar.
FITZGERALD Patricia, MARTIN Pascal, RONTEAU S., (2012). Responses of family and non-family firms in France to dynamic economic change: An exploratory study of the wine industry in Anjou.
Scientific activities
Reviewer for an academic journal
Technology in Society
2024
Revue de l'Entrepreneuriat
2023
Human Relations
2023
M@n@gement
2022
Entrepreneurship and Regional Development
2022
Industrial Marketing Management
2022
RIPME
2021
International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behavior & Research
2020
Système d'Information et Management
2020
Technology Analysis & Strategic Management
2019
Revue Management & Avenir
2019
International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behavior & Research
2019
FCS
Management International
Guest Editor of an academic journal
Technology-enabled multi-sided platforms in B2B settings: challenges and opportunities for supply chain ecosystems.
2022
Special Issue on Digital Two-Sided Platforms – Unveiling Research and Business Opportunities
2019
Member of the board of directors of an academic association
Symplatform
2020
Membre du Conseil d'Administration de la SFM
2017
Awards and honors
Best article's award from Conférence Annuelle de l'Association Internationale de Management Stratégique (AIMS) :MAUCUER, R., RONTEAU, S., LESAGE, X. (2015). Construction et performativité d'un business model innovant : le cas Ornikar, 24ème Conférence Annuelle de l'AIMS - Paris, 2015
CEFAG laureate, 2003