Christina Theodoraki
Présentation
Christina Theodoraki is Full professor (HDR) in Entrepreneurship & Strategy at IAE Aix-Marseille University. She is elected Program Chair at the Academy of Management, Entrepreneurship Division. Her PhD was supported by the Labex Entrepreneurship at the University of Montpellier. She defended her HDR (Habilitation to Supervise Research, which is the highest academic qualification that a person can receive and corresponds to the highest level of French diploma) on September 4th, 2023 at IAE Paris Pantheon Sorbonne, entitled Building Entrepreneurial Ecosystems Sustainably (BEES). She is Affiliate professor at the International University of Monaco, Member of the Advisory Board at the Institute for Development Strategies at Indiana University (No. 1 in the best ranking universities in US News & World Report), Research associate at the Chair of Entrepreneurship Territory Innovation (ETI) – IAE Paris-Sorbonne, Business Development Manager at the Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Research Network (EERN), Editor of Small Business Economics, Associate editor of the Journal of Small Business Management, Management & Prospective – Gestion 2000, and Revue internationale PME, and member of the editorial boards of Review of Managerial Science (RMS), Entrepreneurship Research Journal, Journal of Enterprising Communities, Journal of the Knowledge Economy. She also co-leaded the Babson Collaborative research group on entrepreneurial ecosystems and co-supervised 4 PhD/DBA theses. Her teaching areas are Management, Strategy, Business Plan and Entrepreneurial Support. She coordinates the Business Specialization Course on Entrepreneurship. Her areas of research include entrepreneurial ecosystem, entrepreneurial support, and inter-organizational strategies with a focus on business incubators. Her work has been presented at Anglo-Saxon conferences such as: AOM, SMS, RENT, EURAM, ICSB, etc. She has also participated in research entrepreneurial events such as the Babson Doctoral Consortium. Her work is published in Small Business Economics, European Management Review, Journal of Business Research, R&D Management, IEEE TEM, M@n@gement, Journal of Technology Transfer, International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Small Business, Revue Internationale PME, etc. She received the Babson Collaborative Member of the Year 2021 Award; the ICSB’21 Best Policy Paper Award, 2 ICSB’20 Best webinar and Best Article Resiliency Awards and 2 best dissertation awards (AEI’18, AIREPME’18).
Compétences
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Sustainable enterprises in circular entrepreneurial ecosystems: empirical evidence from UgandaR&D Management Conference, Jun 2025, Pise, Italy |
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Shaping the Future: Sustainable and Inclusive Entrepreneurial EcosystemsACERE Australasian Consortium for Entrepreneurship Research Excellence, Feb 2025, Melbourne (AUS), Australia |
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Deep-tech Startups and Ecosystem Dynamics: Insights from France and GreeceEmerging Tech Conference on Edge Intelligence-ETCEI2025, Oct 2025, Athènes, Greece |
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Building a space entrepreneurship industry: The role of entrepreneurial support programs for startup growthEGOS, Jul 2025, Athènes, Greece |
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Space Entrepreneurship: The role of entrepreneurial support organizations for startup growthEURAM, Jun 2025, Florence, Italy |
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Can Deep Tech Startups Orchestrate Ecosystems to Tackle Grand Challenges? The Case of Nature4Nature TechnologiesAEI, Jun 2025, Aix-en-Provence, France |
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Construisons des écosystèmes entrepreneuriaux durables et inclusifs17ème CIFEPME 2024 “Vers un contexte permanent de crises pour l’entrepreneuriat et la PME?”, Oct 2024, Quebec (Canada), France |
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Building an Inclusive Entrepreneurial Ecosystem in Tacoma-SeattleWorkshop Inclusive or Exclusive? Diversity and Inclusion in Entrepreneurial Ecosystems Research, Special Issue in Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, DTU, Jun 2024, Copenhagen, Denmark |
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A Grounded Model of How Refugee Family Businesses Build Entrepreneurial EcosystemsAcademy of Management, Aug 2024, Chicago, France. ⟨10.5465/AMPROC.2024.13034abstract⟩ |
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Ecosystème de l'accompagnement entrepreneurial et stratégies coopétitives des incubateurs : Nouveaux défis stratégiques à releverXXVème Conférence de l’AIMS, May 2016, Hammamet, Tunisie |
Entrepreneurial Support Ecosystem and Business Incubator Coopetition StrategiesStrategic Management Society (SMS) – Special Conference, Jun 2016, Rome, Italy |
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A Holistic Approach of Incubator Strategies in the Entrepreneurial Support EcosystemAcademy of Management (AOM), Aug 2016, Anaheim, United States |
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A Social Capital Approach of University-based Entrepreneurial Support EcosystemRENT XXIV, Nov 2015, Zagreb, Croatia |
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Business Incubator Strategy: Towards a Co-opetition Approach59th Annual Conference of International Council for Small Business - ICSB 2014, Jun 2014, Dublin, Ireland |
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Vers l’émergence d’un écosystème de l’accompagnement entrepreneurial12e Congrès International francophone en Entrepreneuriat et PME - CIFEPME 2014, Oct 2014, Agadir, Maroc |
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Coopétition dans l’écosystème de l’accompagnement entrepreneurial : nouvelle perspective stratégiqueJournées AEI/AIREPME - Semaine du Management, May 2014, Marseille, France |
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Ecosystème de l’accompagnement entrepreneurial : Pour une représentation au cœur de l’écosystème entrepreneurial5èmes Journées Georges Doriot, May 2014, Rabat, Maroc |
Economic Resilience and Sustainability - Vol. 2Springer Nature Switzerland, 2026, Springer Proceedings in Business and Economics, ⟨10.1007/978-3-032-04214-9⟩ |
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Developing Entrepreneurial Mindsets, Ideas, and Opportunities A Guide for Educators2025 |
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Entrepreneurial Ecosystems Resource Acquisition, Flow and ManagementSpringer Nature Switzerland, 2025, Contributions to Management Science, ⟨10.1007/978-3-031-96169-4⟩ |
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Developing Entrepreneurial Mindsets, Ideas, and OpportunitiesEdward Elgar Publishing, 2025, ⟨10.4337/9781035314119⟩ |
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Economic Resilience and Sustainability—Vol. 1Springer Nature Switzerland, 2025, Springer Proceedings in Business and Economics, ⟨10.1007/978-3-032-04218-7⟩ |
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Innovation Elargie : La Méthode de Caractérisation Noov’LREditions Universitaires Européennes, pp.92, 2016, 978-3-639-48398-7 |
Conclusions and Future ResearchEntrepreneurial Ecosystems Resource Acquisition, Flow and Management, Springer Nature Switzerland, pp.273 - 280, 2025, Contributions to Management Science, ⟨10.1007/978-3-031-96169-4_14⟩ |
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Introduction to Part III: Opportunity evaluationDeveloping Entrepreneurial Mindsets, Ideas, and Opportunities, Edward Elgar Publishing, pp.274-286, 2025, ⟨10.4337/9781035314119.00037⟩ |
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Sustainable Business Model Canvas (SBMC)Developing Entrepreneurial Mindsets, Ideas, and Opportunities, Edward Elgar Publishing, pp.388-397, 2025, ⟨10.4337/9781035314119.00047⟩ |
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Entrepreneurial EcosystemsHardback Thematic Encyclepedia of Regional Science, 2025, 978 1 80037 927 5 |
Entrepreneurial ecosystems and digitizationElgar Encyclopedia of Entrepreneurship and Digitalization, Edward Elgar Publishing, pp.107-112, 2025, ⟨10.4337/9781035319299.00026⟩ |
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IntroductionEntrepreneurial Ecosystems: Resource Acquisition, Flow and Management, Springer Nature Switzerland, pp.1-14, 2025, Contributions to Management Science, ⟨10.1007/978-3-031-96169-4_1⟩ |
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Ecosystème entrepreneurialEntreprendre. Une introduction à l'entrepreneuriat, 2025 |
Entrepreneurial Ecosystem and Quadruple Helix: A Sub-ecosystem ApproachDe Gruyter Handbook of Rural Entrepreneurship, De Gruyter, pp.117 - 138, 2025, ⟨10.1515/9783110791396-007⟩ |
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Incubators’ coopetition strategy in the start-up incubation ecosystemResearch Handbook on Start-Up Incubation Ecosystems, Edward Elgar Publishing, pp.224-238, 2020, ⟨10.4337/9781788973533.00019⟩ |
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Building Entrepreneurial Societies Through Entrepreneurial Ecosystems and Business IncubatorsFrom Industrial Organization to Entrepreneurship, Springer International Publishing, pp.467-477, 2019, ⟨10.1007/978-3-030-25237-3_49⟩ |
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Innovation : et si vous faisiez le pari d’une organisation semi-formelle ?2024 |