Expertise

I am a professor of entrepreneurship at emlyon businesss school and I have been a Visiting Fellow at Imperial College Business School in London.

I hold a PhD from Imperial College Business School where my dissertation won best PhD (2009).

My research interests centre on new venture creation, social network tie creation, and family business. Recent work has focused on how new entrepreneurs can establish the network relations they need to launch new entrepreneurial projects, and on extreme behaviour in family business. Drawing on qualitative research methods I have studied the independent television production sector in the UK, and the staging of the 2012 Olympic Games. I can be contacted on my email address.

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Honors

Best doctorate - Directors' Prize
Awarded, Imperial College Business School, London, United Kingdom, 2009
Scholarship EPSRC
Awarded, Doctoral Program at Imperial College, London, United Kingdom, 2005
Best MBA - Marketing Prize
Awarded, Imperial College Business School, London, United Kingdom, 2004

Organizational Affiliations

Professor level 1, Department of Innovation & Entrepreneurship, emlyon business school, 2024 –

STORM - Strategy and Organization, emlyon business school

InvEnt - Entrepreneurship and Innovation, emlyon business school

I2E - Institute for Impactful Innovation & Entrepreneurship, emlyon business school, 2024 –

Past Affiliations

Associate Professor, Department of Innovation & Entrepreneurship, emlyon business school, 2017 – 2024

Assistant Professor, Department of Innovation & Entrepreneurship, emlyon business school, 2009 – 2017

Visiting Scholar, Imperial College Business School, 2010 – 2020

Education

Tie-order Processes and Network Outcomes
2010, PhD

Imperial College Business School, United Kingdom

Business Administration
2009, Master's degree

Imperial College Business School, United Kingdom