Christina Theodoraki

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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

Entrepreneurship Strategic management Entrepreneurial ecosystems Incubators/Accelerators

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Publications

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Mapping ESG-Driven sustainable development: A retrospective review and future research agenda

Slimane Ed-Dafali , Mitesh Patel , Zahra Adardour , Christina Theodoraki
Innovation and Green Development, 2026, 5 (1), pp.100326. ⟨10.1016/j.igd.2026.100326⟩
Article dans une revue hal-05456150 v1
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Preincubation practices as sourcing in entrepreneurial ecosystems: A dynamic capability perspective

André Nana , Eric Michaël Laviolette , Christina Theodoraki
Journal of Business Research, 2026, 203, pp.115829. ⟨10.1016/j.jbusres.2025.115829⟩
Article dans une revue hal-05444936 v1
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Building a space entrepreneurship industry: The role of entrepreneurial support programs for startup growth

Angelo Cavallo , Christina Theodoraki , Alessandro Lucini-Paioni
Small Business Economics, 2025, ⟨10.1007/s11187-025-01135-x⟩
Article dans une revue hal-05444526 v1
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From flashlight to spotlight: Illuminating gray shadows that shape entrepreneurship’s dark sides

April J Spivack , Amitabh Anand , Anders Örtenblad , Dieter Bögenhold , Christina Theodoraki et al.
Small Business Economics, 2025, ⟨10.1007/s11187-025-01089-0⟩
Article dans une revue hal-05444982 v1
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Conceptualizing Entrepreneurial Mindfulness – A Review and Agenda

Amitabh Anand , Kanika Kohli , Christina Theodoraki
Revue de l'Entrepreneuriat, 2025, 24 (3), pp.11-59. ⟨10.3917/e.entre.pa.0015⟩
Article dans une revue hal-05444560 v1
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Environmental uncertainty and corporate performance: Can R&D investments provide a silver lining to this cloud?

Efstathios Magerakis , Christina Theodoraki
Review of Managerial Science, 2025, ⟨10.1007/s11846-025-00923-9⟩
Article dans une revue hal-05444971 v1
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Viewpoint: Exploring the entrepreneurial ecosystem in the Metaverse

Rauf Mammadov , Christina Theodoraki
Management & Prospective (Gestion 2000), 2025, 41 (4), pp.194 - 211. ⟨10.3917/g2000.414.0194⟩
Article dans une revue hal-05444967 v1
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The future of entrepreneurial ecosystems research: Toward a policy-oriented research agenda

Sophia Hess , Bernd Wurth , Erik Stam , Ferran Giones , Riccardo Fini et al.
Journal of Business Venturing Insights, 2025, 23, pp.e00538. ⟨10.1016/j.jbvi.2025.e00538⟩
Article dans une revue hal-05444989 v1
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Scaling women-owned entrepreneurial ventures: past, present and future

Vrinda Khattar , Upasna A Agarwal , Christina Theodoraki
International Journal of Gender and Entrepreneurship, 2025, ⟨10.1108/IJGE-04-2024-0119⟩
Article dans une revue hal-05444983 v1
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The role of traceability technologies in the sustainable evolution of the luxury industry

Martine Hlady-Rispal , Benjamin Adam , Christina Theodoraki , Vincent Jolivet
Journal of Technology Transfer, 2025, ⟨10.1007/s10961-025-10277-9⟩
Article dans une revue hal-05444940 v1
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Stagnating or flourishing? How entrepreneurial support organizations navigate constraints in nascent ecosystems

Giovanni Negri , Giacomo Ciambotti , Christina Theodoraki , David Littlewood
Small Business Economics, 2025, 65 (3), pp.1651-1679. ⟨10.1007/s11187-025-01042-1⟩
Article dans une revue hal-05444998 v1
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Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Typologies for Entrepreneurial Dynamism: A Configurational Theorizing

Ravi Roshan , Krishna Chandra Balodi , Christina Theodoraki
Entrepreneurship and Regional Development, In press, ⟨10.1080/08985626.2025.2475898⟩
Article dans une revue hal-04985140 v1
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Les écosystèmes entrepreneuriaux en pratique, Cécile Fonrouge, Frédéric Laurin et Josée St-Pierre, Éditions des Presses de l’Université du Québec, 2e trimestre 2025

Christina Theodoraki
Revue Internationale PME, 2025, 38 (3-4), pp.211-213. ⟨10.7202/1122006ar⟩
Article dans une revue hal-05444933 v1
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Innovation newness shaping venture legitimation strategy choices in the entrepreneurial ecosystem: An empirical analysis based on fsQCA

Jonathan Mukiza Kansheba , Abdollah Mohammadparast Tabas , Christina Theodoraki , Clavis Nwehfor Fubah
International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation, 2025, ⟨10.1177/14657503251330088⟩
Article dans une revue hal-05444990 v1
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Family business background and entrepreneurial intention: A cross-country and cultural factors-based moderated mediation model

Muhammad Arshad , Sarfraz Zaman , Sadia Afzal , Christina Theodoraki
Journal of Small Business Management, 2025, pp.1-31. ⟨10.1080/00472778.2025.2517182⟩
Article dans une revue hal-05444975 v1
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Managing the semiformal organization: A hybrid design for ambidextrous innovation

Amadou Lô , Victor dos Santos Paulino , Christina Theodoraki
Journal of Business Research, 2025, 201, pp.115644. ⟨10.1016/j.jbusres.2025.115644⟩
Article dans une revue hal-05444942 v1
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Opening entrepreneurial ecosystem black boxes

Erik Stam , Christina Theodoraki , Niels Bosma , Didier Chabaud , Grégory Guéneau
Small Business Economics, 2025, 65 (3), pp.1535-1545. ⟨10.1007/s11187-025-01037-y⟩
Article dans une revue hal-05403606 v1
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Unraveling the Urban Ecosystem: An Ethnographic Study of Logistics Service Providers

Hugo de Tarragon , Christina Theodoraki , Martine Hlady-Rispal , Gauthier Casteran
Journal of Supply Chain Management, 2024, ⟨10.1111/jscm.12333⟩
Article dans une revue hal-04714543 v1
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Inside-out and outside-in: How entrepreneurial ecosystems can build legitimacy through signaling

Colin Donaldson , Jorge Villagrasa , Christina Theodoraki
Journal of Small Business Management, 2024, pp.1-42. ⟨10.1080/00472778.2024.2394499⟩
Article dans une revue hal-04713306 v1
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Entrepreneurial support organizations in sustainable knowledge-driven ecosystems

Aveline Cloitre , Christina Theodoraki , Victor dos Santos Paulino
Journal of Technology Transfer, 2024, ⟨10.1007/s10961-024-10117-2⟩
Article dans une revue hal-04676738 v1
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Micro and macro factors of firm scaling

David Audretsch , Maksim Belitski , Christina Theodoraki
Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 2024, 202, pp.123312. ⟨10.1016/j.techfore.2024.123312⟩
Article dans une revue hal-04677871 v1
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Navigating the storm: the SME way of tackling the pandemic crisis

Gagan Deep Sharma , Sascha Kraus , Amogh Talan , Mrinalini Srivastava , Christina Theodoraki
Small Business Economics, 2023, 63 (1), pp.221-241. ⟨10.1007/s11187-023-00810-1⟩
Article dans une revue hal-04676728 v1
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Resilience and entrepreneurial decision-making: the heterogeneity among Italian innovative start-ups

Sara Baroncelli , Andrea Caputo , Erica Santini , Christina Theodoraki
Entrepreneurship and Regional Development, 2023, 36 (5-6), pp.798-815. ⟨10.1080/08985626.2023.2295959⟩
Article dans une revue hal-04676731 v1

The role of innovation and internationalization support in small‐ and medium‐sized enterprises’ export performance

Evangelos Pastelakos , Christina Theodoraki , Alexis Catanzaro
European Management Review, 2022, ⟨10.1111/emre.12513⟩
Article dans une revue halshs-04006125 v1

Widening the borders of entrepreneurial ecosystem through the international lens

Christina Theodoraki , Alexis Catanzaro
Journal of Technology Transfer, 2022, 47 (2), pp.383-406. ⟨10.1007/s10961-021-09852-7⟩
Article dans une revue halshs-04006129 v1

What restricts SMEs from adopting sophisticated capital budgeting practices?

Riya Sureka , Satish Kumar , Deepraj Mukherjee , Christina Theodoraki
Small Business Economics, 2022, 60 (1), pp.265-290. ⟨10.1007/s11187-022-00648-z⟩
Article dans une revue hal-04676726 v1

The Evolution of Entrepreneurship Research: The Importance of Places

Christina Theodoraki
Revue de l'Entrepreneuriat, 2022, Vol. 21 (Hors Série), pp.75-87. ⟨10.3917/entre.hs1.0075⟩
Article dans une revue hal-04676718 v1
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The quadruple/quintuple helix model in entrepreneurial ecosystems: an institutional perspective on the space case study

Aveline Cloitre , Victor dos Santos Paulino , Christina Theodoraki
R&D Management, 2022, 53 (4), pp.675-694. ⟨10.1111/radm.12547⟩
Article dans une revue hal-04676722 v1

Achieving Interorganizational Ambidexterity Through a Nested Entrepreneurial Ecosystem

Amadou Lo , Christina Theodoraki
IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, 2021, 68 (2), pp.418-429. ⟨10.1109/TEM.2020.3022465⟩
Article dans une revue hal-04676710 v1

The Effectiveness of Incubators’ Co-Opetition Strategy in the Entrepreneurial Ecosystem: Empirical Evidence From France

Christina Theodoraki , Karim Messeghem , David Audretsch
IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, 2020, pp.1-14. ⟨10.1109/TEM.2020.3034476⟩
Article dans une revue hal-03053306 v1

A social capital approach to the development of sustainable entrepreneurial ecosystems: an explorative study

Christina Theodoraki , Karim Messeghem , Mark Rice
Small Business Economics, 2018, 51 (1), pp.153-170. ⟨10.1007/s11187-017-9924-0⟩
Article dans une revue hal-02091761 v1

Exploring the entrepreneurial ecosystem in the field of entrepreneurial support: a multi-level approach

Christina Theodoraki , Karim Messeghem
International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Small Business, 2017, 31 (1), pp.47. ⟨10.1504/IJESB.2017.083847⟩
Article dans une revue hal-02279520 v1

Ecosystème de l’accompagnement entrepreneurial : une approche en termes de coopétition

Christina Theodoraki , Karim Messeghem
Entreprendre & Innover, 2015, 27, pp.102-111. ⟨10.3917/entin.027.0102⟩
Article dans une revue hal-02050874 v1

Écosystème de l'accompagnement entrepreneurial : une approche en termes de coopétition

Christina Theodoraki , Karim Messeghem
Entreprendre & Innover, 2014, 23 (4), pp.10. ⟨10.3917/entin.023.0010⟩
Article dans une revue hal-03053409 v1
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Shaping the Future: Sustainable and Inclusive Entrepreneurial Ecosystems

Christina Theodoraki
ACERE Australasian Consortium for Entrepreneurship Research Excellence, Feb 2025, Melbourne (AUS), Australia
Communication dans un congrès hal-04895075 v1
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Deep-tech Startups and Ecosystem Dynamics: Insights from France and Greece

Aliki Nianaki , Christina Theodoraki , Antonis Livieratos
Emerging Tech Conference on Edge Intelligence-ETCEI2025, Oct 2025, Athènes, Greece
Communication dans un congrès hal-05467925 v1
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Building a space entrepreneurship industry: The role of entrepreneurial support programs for startup growth

Angelo Cavallo , Christina Theodoraki , Alessandro Lucini-Paioni
EGOS, Jul 2025, Athènes, Greece
Communication dans un congrès hal-05467976 v1
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Can Deep Tech Startups Orchestrate Ecosystems to Tackle Grand Challenges? The Case of Nature4Nature Technologies

Antonios D Livieratos , Antonios Angelakis , Aliki Nianaki , Christina Theodoraki
AEI, Jun 2025, Aix-en-Provence, France
Communication dans un congrès hal-05468000 v1
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Space Entrepreneurship: The role of entrepreneurial support organizations for startup growth

Angelo Cavallo , Christina Theodoraki , Alessandro Lucini-Paioni
EURAM, Jun 2025, Florence, Italy
Communication dans un congrès hal-05468005 v1
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Sustainable enterprises in circular entrepreneurial ecosystems: empirical evidence from Uganda

Vittorio Capitani , Marco Minciullo , Giacomo Ciambotti , Christina Theodoraki
R&D Management Conference, Jun 2025, Pise, Italy
Communication dans un congrès hal-05467987 v1
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Building an Inclusive Entrepreneurial Ecosystem in Tacoma-Seattle

Christina Theodoraki
Workshop Inclusive or Exclusive? Diversity and Inclusion in Entrepreneurial Ecosystems Research, Special Issue in Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, DTU, Jun 2024, Copenhagen, Denmark
Communication dans un congrès hal-04892314 v1
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Construisons des écosystèmes entrepreneuriaux durables et inclusifs

Christina Theodoraki
17ème CIFEPME 2024 “Vers un contexte permanent de crises pour l’entrepreneuriat et la PME?”, Oct 2024, Quebec (Canada), France
Communication dans un congrès hal-04892290 v1
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Ecosystème de l'accompagnement entrepreneurial et stratégies coopétitives des incubateurs : Nouveaux défis stratégiques à relever

Christina Theodoraki , Karim Messeghem
XXVème Conférence de l’AIMS, May 2016, Hammamet, Tunisie
Communication dans un congrès hal-02152839 v1

Entrepreneurial Support Ecosystem and Business Incubator Coopetition Strategies

Christina Theodoraki , Karim Messeghem
Strategic Management Society (SMS) – Special Conference, Jun 2016, Rome, Italy
Communication dans un congrès hal-02152885 v1

A Holistic Approach of Incubator Strategies in the Entrepreneurial Support Ecosystem

Christina Theodoraki , Karim Messeghem
Academy of Management (AOM), Aug 2016, Anaheim, United States
Communication dans un congrès hal-02152800 v1

A Social Capital Approach of University-based Entrepreneurial Support Ecosystem

Christina Theodoraki , Karim Messeghem
RENT XXIV, Nov 2015, Zagreb, Croatia
Communication dans un congrès hal-02075934 v1

Vers l’émergence d’un écosystème de l’accompagnement entrepreneurial

Christina Theodoraki , Karim Messeghem
12e Congrès International francophone en Entrepreneuriat et PME - CIFEPME 2014, Oct 2014, Agadir, Maroc
Communication dans un congrès hal-02089164 v1

Business Incubator Strategy: Towards a Co-opetition Approach

Christina Theodoraki , Karim Messeghem
59th Annual Conference of International Council for Small Business - ICSB 2014, Jun 2014, Dublin, Ireland
Communication dans un congrès hal-02090031 v1

Coopétition dans l’écosystème de l’accompagnement entrepreneurial : nouvelle perspective stratégique

Christina Theodoraki , Karim Messeghem
Journées AEI/AIREPME - Semaine du Management, May 2014, Marseille, France
Communication dans un congrès hal-02089285 v1

Ecosystème de l’accompagnement entrepreneurial : Pour une représentation au cœur de l’écosystème entrepreneurial

Christina Theodoraki , Karim Messeghem
5èmes Journées Georges Doriot, May 2014, Rabat, Maroc
Communication dans un congrès hal-02089250 v1
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Sustainable Business Model Canvas (SBMC)

Christina Theodoraki
Developing Entrepreneurial Mindsets, Ideas, and Opportunities, Edward Elgar Publishing, pp.388-397, 2025, ⟨10.4337/9781035314119.00047⟩
Chapitre d'ouvrage hal-05445068 v1

Entrepreneurial ecosystems and digitization

Yu Liu , Lei Xu , Christina Theodoraki
Elgar Encyclopedia of Entrepreneurship and Digitalization, Edward Elgar Publishing, pp.107-112, 2025, ⟨10.4337/9781035319299.00026⟩
Chapitre d'ouvrage hal-05445018 v1
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Entrepreneurial Ecosystems

Christina Theodoraki , David B Audretsch
Hardback Thematic Encyclepedia of Regional Science, 2025, 978 1 80037 927 5
Chapitre d'ouvrage hal-05445041 v1

117Entrepreneurial Ecosystem and Quadruple Helix: A Sub-ecosystem Approach

Christina Theodoraki , Karim Messeghem , Elias G Carayannis
De Gruyter Handbook of Rural Entrepreneurship, De Gruyter, pp.117 - 138, 2025, ⟨10.1515/9783110791396-007⟩
Chapitre d'ouvrage hal-05445070 v1
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Ecosystème entrepreneurial

Christina Theodoraki
Entreprendre. Une introduction à l'entrepreneuriat, 2025
Chapitre d'ouvrage hal-05445027 v1

Introduction

Parisa Baig , Elizabeth Montoya-Martinez , Maksim Belitski , Christina Theodoraki , Andrew Godley
Entrepreneurial 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⟩
Chapitre d'ouvrage hal-05445050 v1

Conclusions and Future Research

Elizabeth Montoya-Martinez , Parisa Baig , Maksim Belitski , Christina Theodoraki , Andrew Godley
Entrepreneurial 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⟩
Chapitre d'ouvrage hal-05445056 v1
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Introduction to Part III: Opportunity evaluation

Christina Theodoraki
Developing Entrepreneurial Mindsets, Ideas, and Opportunities, Edward Elgar Publishing, pp.274-286, 2025, ⟨10.4337/9781035314119.00037⟩
Chapitre d'ouvrage hal-05445064 v1

Incubators’ coopetition strategy in the start-up incubation ecosystem

Christina Theodoraki , Karim Messeghem
Research Handbook on Start-Up Incubation Ecosystems, Edward Elgar Publishing, pp.224-238, 2020, ⟨10.4337/9781788973533.00019⟩
Chapitre d'ouvrage hal-03053417 v1

Building Entrepreneurial Societies Through Entrepreneurial Ecosystems and Business Incubators

Christina Theodoraki
From Industrial Organization to Entrepreneurship, Springer International Publishing, pp.467-477, 2019, ⟨10.1007/978-3-030-25237-3_49⟩
Chapitre d'ouvrage hal-03053420 v1