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Bertrand QUELIN

Professor

Strategy and Business Policy

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Biography

Bertrand Quélin is a full professor at HEC Paris. He is a member of the Strategy and Business Policy Department. He was the holder of the Bouygues-HEC Paris chair entitled "Smart City and the Common Good" from 2020 to 2023.

Bertrand Quélin received his PhD in economics from the University of Paris. His research focuses on organizational economics, transaction cost economics and public-private partnerships.

He is the author and co-author of several articles published in international journals, including: Academy of Management Perspectives, Academy of Management Review, Journal of Business Ethics, Journal of the Academy of Marketing ScienceJournal of Management StudiesManagement Science, Organization Science, Research Policy, Strategic Organization... and numerous chapters in collective works.

In parallel to his research activities, he took positions during his academic career.

  • Associate Dean for the HEC Ph.D. program (1999-2005).
  • Academic Director of the HEC MSc in Strategic Management (From 1994 to 1999, then from 2006 to 2012).
  • Head of the HEC Strategy and Business Policy department (From 2013 to 2018).

He has been twice (1996, and then 2005) Visiting Research Scholar at the Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley, and Visiting Professor at Insper (São Paulo - Brazil) in 2012.

He was a regular Visiting Professor at the Fundação Getulio Vargas (EBAPE - Rio de Janeiro - Brazil) (2012-2019).

He has taught in different countries within and outside Europe [Europe], Vietnam, Brazil, in Middle East (Lebanon, Qatar and Saudi Arabia) and in Africa (Congo, Gabon, the Republic of Côte d’Ivoire, Madagascar, Morocco, Senegal, and Tunisia)], both at the graduate and executive education levels.

Scientific articles

Stratégies concurrentielles et différenciation

Problèmes Economiques, 26 February 1992, n° 2264, pp 1-7, (in coll. with G. BLANC, P. DUSSAUGE)

Stratégies de coopération et formation d'un marché : les nouveaux services de télécommunication

Revue d'Economie Industrielle, 2nd Term 1991, n° 56, pp 71-100, (in coll. with E. Brousseau)

L'industrie européenne des télécommunications : défis, sursauts, sursis

MédiasPouvoir, November-December 1988, n° 12, pp 132-141,

Conséquence de la dérèglementation sur le développement local

Les Cahiers du Partenariat, July 1988, n° 3,

L'industrie italienne : restructurations et puissance publique

La Lettre du SPES, August 1988, n° 13, pp 8-10,

La télévision à haute définition : les enjeux de la normalisation

Bulletin de l'IREST, 3 February 1988, n° 49, pp 6-12,

Emploi et nouvelles technologies

Les Cahiers Français, October-December 1985, n° 223, pp 41-45,

Changement technique et diffusion des innovations

Revue d'Economie Industrielle, 2nd Term 1985, n° 32, pp 119-125,

Empleo y nuevas tecnologias

Ekonomiaz, Winter 1985, n° 1, pp 159-168,

Books

Chapters in edited books

Proceedings

L'économie de la diffusion des innovations technologiques

Actes du Seminaire "Contributions à l'économie de l'innovation", IWI , 1991 , Vienne, Autriche

Working papers

Case Studies

Scientific articles

Innovation, New Market and Governance Choices of Entry: The Internet Brokerage Market Case

Industry and Innovation, June 2006, vol. 13, n° 2, pp 173-187, (in coll. with V. Claude-Gaudillat)

Nouvelles compétences et modes d'accès

Revue Française de Gestion, March-April 2004, vol. 30, n° 149, pp 133-151, (in coll. with V. Claude-Gaudillat)

Bringing Together Strategic Outsourcing and Corporate Strategy: Outsourcing Morives and Risks

European Management Journal, October 2003, vol. 21, n° 5, pp 467-661, (in coll. with F. Duhamel)

Externalisation stratégique et partenariat: de la firme patrimoniale à la firme contractuelle ?

Revue Française de Gestion, June 2003, vol. 29, n° 143, pp 13-26,

Books

Chapters in edited books

Les contributions de la théorie des ressources à une théorie évolutionniste de la firme

Approches Évolutionnistes De La Firme Et De L'Industrie, M. Basle et al. (eds.), Editions L'Harmattan, 45-75

Cooperative R&D and Competence Building

Strategic Flexibility: Managing In A Turbulent Environment, G. Hamel, C. K. Prahalad, H. Thomas, D. O'Neal, John Wiley & Sons US, 29-50

How Firms Benefit From Collaborating Within R&D Consortia

Managing Strategically In An Interconnected World, M. Hitt, J. Ricart, R. Nixon (Eds), John Wiley & Sons US, 321-348

La théorie des coûts de transaction : fondements théoriques et implications managériales,

Repenser La Stratégie - Fondements Et Perspectives, H. Laroche, J. P. Nioche (Eds), Vuibert, 26-60

Proceedings

L'économie de la diffusion des innovations technologiques

Actes du Seminaire "Contributions à l'économie de l'innovation", IWI , 1991 , Vienne, Autriche

Working papers

R & D Consortia and the Creation of New Competences

Consortium on Competitiveness and Cooperation (CCC), Working Paper, University of California, Berk , 1997

R & D Consortia and the Creation of New Competences

Cahier de Recherche du Groupe HEC , 1997

Les variables stratégiques de la compétition technologique : une représentation en trois plans

Cahier de Recherche du Groupe HEC , 1996

Competence of the Firm and Strategic Alliances: Creation of New Capabilities and Appropriability

Cahier de Recherche du Groupe HEC , 1995

Case Studies

Education

  • Qualifying Degree for research supervision (HDR), Economics, Université Sorbonne Paris Nord - Paris XIII - France
  • Doctorate, Economics, Université Sorbonne Paris Nord - Paris XIII - France
  • MSc in Economics and Finance, Université Sorbonne Paris Nord - Paris XIII - France
  • Master in Economics, Université de Rennes - France

Academic appointments

Academic Responsibilities at HEC

  • 2020-2023 Bouygues Chair Holder, in Smart City and the Common Good HEC Paris
  • 2006-2012 Academic Director - MSc Strategic Management HEC Paris
  • 2008- Member, Society & Organization HEC Paris

Scientific Activities

Membership in Academic or Professional Organisation

  • President sortant de l'AIMS
  • President en exercice de l'AIMS.
  • Expert aupres de la Commission nationale d'evaluation des formations en gestion (dite commission Helfer)
  • President-entrant, en exercice puis sortant du Conseil Scientifique Permanent de l'Association Internationale de Management Strategique (AIMS)
  • Member - International Society of New Institutional Economics
  • Membre du Conseil scientifique de l'Ecole Doctorale ENSAM-HEC-IAE/Universite Paris I Sorbonne
  • Member - Academy of Management
  • Member - Strategic Management Society
  • Member - Association Internationale de Management Strategique
  • Member - International Telecommunication Society
  • Membre du Groupement de Recherche CNRS n 20 en Economie Industrielle
  • Membre du Conseil scientifique de l'Ecole Doctorale ecole SOFT/Universite Versailles Saint-Quentin

Editorial activities

  • 2005-2025 Member - Editorial Review Board, -Global Strategy Journal

  • Conference organisation

  • 2014-2014 Co-organizer, SMS 2014 Madrid Conference Extensions > Extension 4: Paris - Public-Private Governance, Social Value and Innovative Organizational Design
  • 2007-2007 Membre du Comité Scientifique, Les colloques du PESOR "Management des entreprises innovantes à l'heure des pôles de compétitivité", Faculté Jean Monnet, Sceaux
  • 2005-2005 Membre du Comité Scientifique du 3e Congrès de l'ADERSE (Association pour le Développement de l'enseignement et de la Recherche sur la Responsabilité Sociale de l'Entreprise), Lyon
  • 2005-2005 Organisation de l'International Workshop 'Inter-Organizational Communities of Practice'
  • 2005-2005 Organisation du symposium "The Inter-Organizational Communities of Practice (IOCoPs): New Insights and Knowledge Strategies", symposium co-sponsorisé par les divisions BPS et OMT, Academy of Management Conference, Hawaii
  • 2003-2003 Responsable de la Table Ronde sur "L'économie des coûts de transaction et les sciences de gestion", Conférence annuelle de l'AIMS, Tunis
  • 2003-2003 Responsable du Séminaire doctoral, Conférence de l'AIMS, Tunis
  • 1992-1992 Membre du Comité Scientifique des 14e Journées Internationales de l'IDATE : "Les alliances stratégiques", Montpellier
  • Awards & honors

    • 2021 Best Developmental Reviewers (AMR)
    • 2020 Bouygues Chair Professor in Smart City and the Common Good
    • 2018 SIOE Best Poster Award
    • 2017 Prix AIMS (Association Internationale de Management Strategique) du meilleur article theorique pour "Experimenting business models with network effects: a real options perspective" de Charlotte Krychowski, Bertrand Quelin Bulat Sandito
    • 2012 Strategy Research Foundation Recipient (Strategic Management Society)