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Olivier CHATAIN

Professor

Strategy and Business Policy

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Biography

Olivier Chatain is a Professor of Strategy and Business Policy at HEC Paris and an associated researcher at the Institute for Strategic Research at Ecole Militaire, Paris (IRSEM).

Olivier Chatain is a recognized business scholar with an extensive record of publications in top management and strategy journals (Academy of Management Review, Management Science, Organization Science, and Strategy Science), notably with work dealing with the theory of value creation and value capture. His current research lies at the intersection of business strategy and geopolitics, focusing on how large digital platforms, their infrastructures, and their role in the public sphere, feature in the rivalry among states.

Prior to joining HEC Paris, Olivier Chatain was an assistant professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He served six years as an associate editor of the Strategic Management Journal and currently serves as a Program Director for early career grants at the Strategy Research Foundation and as an editorial board member of Strategy Science.

He holds an MSc and a PhD from INSEAD, an MA from University Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne, and a Diploma from ESSEC.

Scientific articles

Incentive Alignment in Ecosystems: The Role of Complementarity Types and Multi-Sided Bargaining

Strategic Management Journal, Forthcoming, (in coll. with E. PLAKSENKOVA)

Renewing the resource-based view: New contexts, new concepts, and new methods

Strategic Management Journal, June 2023, vol. 44, n° 6, pp 1357-1390, (in coll. with C. HELFAT, A. KAUL, D. J. J. KETCHEN, J. B. BARNEY, H. SINGH)

Client-Related Factors and Collaboration Between Human Assets

Organization Science, March-April 2022, vol. 33, n° 2, pp 518-540, (in coll. with J. K. MAWDSLEY, Philipp Meyer-Doyle)

NGOs and the Creation of Value in Supply Chains

Strategic Management Journal, April 2019, vol. 40, n° 4, pp 604-630, (in coll. with E. PLAKSENKOVA)

Alleviating Managerial Dilemmas In Human-Capital-Intensive Firms Through Incentives: Evidence From M&A Legal Advisors

Strategic Management Journal, February 2017, vol. 38, pp 232-254, (in coll. with P. MEYER-DOYLE)

Estimating Value Creation from Revealed Preferences: Application to Value-Based Strategies

Strategic Management Journal, October 2017, vol. 38, pp 1964-1985, (in coll. with D. MINDRUTA)

How Do Strategic Factor Markets Respond to Rivalry in the Product Market?

Strategic Management Journal, 3 February 2014, vol. 35, n° 13, pp 1952-1971,

Value creation, competition, and performance in buyer-supplier relationships

Strategic Management Journal, January 2011, vol. 32, n° 1, pp 76-102,

Value creation and value capture with frictions

Strategic Management Journal, November 2011, vol. 32, n° 11, pp 1206-1231, (in coll. with P. ZEMSKY)

Competitors' Resource-Oriented Strategies: Acting on Competitors' Resources through Interventions in Factor Markets and Political Markets

Academy of Management Review, January 2008, vol. 33, n° 1, pp 97-121, (in coll. with L. CAPRON)

Chapters in edited books

Cooperative and Non-Cooperative Game Theory

The Palgrave Encyclopedia Of Strategic Management, Mie Augier, David J. Teece (Eds), Macmillan

Proceedings

When Producers Leave Cooperatives: The Interplay Between Shared and Common-Pool Resources

2025 Academy of Management Annual Meeting , 2025 , 2025 , 1 (C. DOCHE)

Corporate Defection and Outlying Control on Resource Reallocation

2022 AOM Conference , 2022 , 2022 , 1 (C. DOCHE, E. Feldman)

Treading a Tightrope: Platform Strategy and Political Externalities

2020 Academy of Management Annual Meeting , 2021 , 2021 , 1 (M. KAUL)

Always Change a Winning Team? Resource Re-Configuring in Human Asset Intensive Firms

Working papers

Generalized Biform Games

Cahier de Recherche du Groupe HEC , 2023

NGOs and the Creation of Value in Supply Chains

Cahier de Recherche du Groupe HEC , 2017

Resource Reconfiguration in Human-Capital-Intensive Firms

Cahier de Recherche du Groupe HEC , 2017

Estimating Value Creation from Revealed Preferences: Application to Value-Based Strategies

Cahier de Recherche du Groupe HEC , 2016

Case Studies

Scientific articles

Renewing the resource-based view: New contexts, new concepts, and new methods

Strategic Management Journal, June 2023, vol. 44, n° 6, pp 1357-1390, (in coll. with C. HELFAT, A. KAUL, D. J. J. KETCHEN, J. B. BARNEY, H. SINGH)

Client-Related Factors and Collaboration Between Human Assets

Organization Science, March-April 2022, vol. 33, n° 2, pp 518-540, (in coll. with J. K. MAWDSLEY, Philipp Meyer-Doyle)

NGOs and the Creation of Value in Supply Chains

Strategic Management Journal, April 2019, vol. 40, n° 4, pp 604-630, (in coll. with E. PLAKSENKOVA)

Alleviating Managerial Dilemmas In Human-Capital-Intensive Firms Through Incentives: Evidence From M&A Legal Advisors

Strategic Management Journal, February 2017, vol. 38, pp 232-254, (in coll. with P. MEYER-DOYLE)

Chapters in edited books

Cooperative and Non-Cooperative Game Theory

The Palgrave Encyclopedia Of Strategic Management, Mie Augier, David J. Teece (Eds), Macmillan

Proceedings

When Producers Leave Cooperatives: The Interplay Between Shared and Common-Pool Resources

2025 Academy of Management Annual Meeting , 2025 , 2025 , 1 (C. DOCHE)

Corporate Defection and Outlying Control on Resource Reallocation

2022 AOM Conference , 2022 , 2022 , 1 (C. DOCHE, E. Feldman)

Treading a Tightrope: Platform Strategy and Political Externalities

2020 Academy of Management Annual Meeting , 2021 , 2021 , 1 (M. KAUL)

Always Change a Winning Team? Resource Re-Configuring in Human Asset Intensive Firms

Working papers

Generalized Biform Games

Cahier de Recherche du Groupe HEC , 2023

NGOs and the Creation of Value in Supply Chains

Cahier de Recherche du Groupe HEC , 2017

Resource Reconfiguration in Human-Capital-Intensive Firms

Cahier de Recherche du Groupe HEC , 2017

Case Studies

Education

  • Ph.D. in Management, INSEAD - France
  • MSc in Management, INSEAD - France
  • DEA en Economie Mathematique et Econometrie (MA in Mathematical Economics and Econometrics), Université Paris I Panthéon Sorbonne - France
  • Diplome Grande Ecole ESSEC (Master Degree in Management), ESSEC Business School, Cergy-Pontoise - France

Academic appointments

Academic Responsibilities at HEC

  • 2022- Professor HEC Paris
  • 2018-2019 Department Head, Strategy and Business Policy HEC Paris

Scientific Activities

Membership in Academic or Professional Organisation

  • Member, Academy of Management, BPS and OMT divisions
  • Member, INFORMS
  • Member, Strategic Management Society

Editorial activities

  • 2010- Member, Editorial Board, Strategic Management Journal