LEPOUTRE Jan

Jan Lepoutre, PhD est Professeur d'Entrepreneuriat et Stratégie à l'ESSEC Business School, Directeur Académique du Centre d'Entrepreneuriat et Innovation et titulaire de la Chaire Armand Peugeot de l'économie de l'électromobilité et technologies hybrides. 

Diplômé d’un MSc en Bioscience Engineering (KULeuven) et d’un master et doctorat en sciences économiques appliqués (Ghent University), il a une passion pour des projets innovants, deeptech et entrepreneuriaux, surtout lorsqu’ils visent à résoudre des problèmes environnementaux. Professeur dans le département de management, directeur académique des activités en entrepreneuriat et innovation à l’ESSEC et titulaire de la chaire Armand Peugeot, son focus dans ses travaux de recherche et ses enseignements est sur le quotidien et le concret de l’organisation de l’innovation et de l’entrepreneuriat. Ces travaux de recherche ont été publié dans des revues comme Academy of Management Journal, American Journal of Sociology, Journal of Organizational Behavior, Journal of Business Ethics, Small Business Economics, et Technological Forecasting & Social Change.

Il intervient ou est intervenu dans des programmes à tous les niveaux à l’ESSEC, souvent avec des pédagogies innovantes. Ainsi, il a – entre autres – créé l’expérience Going Pro, pour lequel il a reçu le prix Daniel Tixier de l’innovation pédagogique en 2016. Il a également été membre du comité d’investissement du fond d’amorçage d’ESSEC Ventures et accompagne plusieurs startups et intrapreneurs.

• 2008 : Ph.D. en Economie Appliquée (Université de Gand, Belgique)
• 2004 : Postgraduate en Economie Appliquée (Université de Gand, Belgique)
• 2001 : MSc in Bioscience Engineering (Ingénierie des Sciences Biologiques) (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgique)

Positions académiques principales

• 2020 - présent : Professeur (ESSEC Business School, France)
• 2014 - 2020 : Professeur associé (ESSEC Business School, France)
• 2012 - 2014 : Professeur assistant (ESSEC Business School, France)
• 2010 - 2012 : Professeur assistant (Vlerick Business School, Belgique)
• 2008 - 2010 : Post-Doctorant (Vlerick Business School, Belgique)

Autres positions académiques

• 2019 - présent : Directeur académique - Centre pour l'Entrepreneuriat et l'Innovation (ESSEC Business School, France)
• 2016 - 2023 : Professeur titulaire de la chaire Armand Peugeot (ESSEC Business School, France)
• 2019 - 2023 : Responsable de la filière Entrepreneuriat MiM (ESSEC Business School, France)
• 2020 - 2022 : ACCOMPAGNEMENT ET RESTRUCTURATION DES PROGRAMMES D'ENTREPRENARIAT (ESSEC Business School, France)

• 2017 : Prix de l'Innovation Pédagogique pour la création de "l'Expérience Going Pro" (Fondation ESSEC, France)

• GRÖSCHL, S. and LEPOUTRE, J. (2022). Don't Panic: Remaining El Capitan While Navigating Unpreparedness in Response to Extreme Events. Journal of Management Inquiry, In press.
• LEPOUTRE, J. and OGUNTOYE, A. (2018). The (Non-)Emergence of Mobile Money Systems in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Comparative Multilevel Perspective of Kenya and Nigeria. Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 131, pp. 62-275.
• STRAUSS, K., LEPOUTRE, J. and WOOD, G. (2017). Fifty Shades of Green: How Microfoundations of Sustainability Dynamic Capabilities Vary Across Organizational Contexts. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 38(9), pp. 1338-1355.
• THIEMANN, M. and LEPOUTRE, J. (2017). Stitched on the Edge: Rule Evasion, Embedded Regulators, and the Evolution of Markets. American Journal of Sociology, 122(6), pp. 1771-1821.
• DONADA, C. and LEPOUTRE, J. (2016). How Can Startups Create the Conditions for a Dominant Position in the Nascent Industry of Electromobility 2.0? International Journal of Automotive Technology and Management, 16(1), pp. 11-29.
• LEPOUTRE, J., JUSTO, R., TERJESEN, S. and BOSMA, N. (2013). Designing a Global Standardized Methodology for Measuring Social Entrepreneurship Activity: The Global Entrepreneurship Monitor Social Entrepreneurship Study. Small Business Economics, 40(3), pp. 693-714.
• LEPOUTRE, J. and VALENTE, M. (2012). Fools Breaking Out: The Role of Symbolic and Material Immunity in Explaining Institutional Nonconformity. Academy of Management Journal, 55(2), pp. 285-313.
• LEPOUTRE, J. (2009). Proactive environmental strategies in small businesses: resources, institutions and dynamic capabilities. Accountancy en Bedrijfskunde, 29(8), pp. 14-19.
• LEPOUTRE, J. (2008). On tomorrow's grounds', Flemish agriculture in 2030: a case of participatory translation of sustainability principles into a vision for the future. Journal of Cleaner Production, 16(10), pp. 1062-1070.
• LEPOUTRE, J., DENTCHEV, N. and HEENE, A. (2007). Dealing With Uncertainties When Governing CSR Policy Networks. Journal of Business Ethics, 73(4), pp. 391-408.
• LEPOUTRE, J. and HEENE, A. (2006). Investigating the Impact of Firm Size on Small Business Social Responsibility: A Critical Review. Journal of Business Ethics, 67(3), pp. 257-273.

• HUBER, T., KUDE, T., LEPOUTRE, J. and MALAURENT, J. (2023). Platform Governance as a Social Movement. In: Carmelo Cennamo, Giovanni Battista Dagnino, Feng Zhu eds. Research Handbook on Digital Strategy. 1st ed. Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd.
• LEPOUTRE, J., PEREZ, Y. and PETIT, M. (2019). Energy Transition and Electromobility: A Review. In: Erik Gawel, Sebastian Strunz, Paul Lehmann, Alexandra Purkus eds. The European Dimension of Germany’s Energy Transition. 1st ed. Springer International Publishing, pp. 509-525.

• LEPOUTRE, J. (2019). Robust disruption: Competition and Collaboration Dynamics in the Launch of Electric Vehicles in the Automotive Industry. In: R&D management conference 2019. Ecole Polytechnique.

• LEPOUTRE, J. (2019). Robust disruption: Competition and Collaboration Dynamics in the Launch of Electric Vehicles in the Automotive Industry. In: 35th EGOS Colloquium 2019.
• VALENTE, M., LEPOUTRE, J. and ZIETSMA, C. (2018). Corporate Social Action as a Firm-Fulfilling Prophecy. In: 2018 HKS SICI Conference: Rethinking Cross-Sector Social Innovation.
• LEPOUTRE, J. (2018). What We Know, and What We Would Want to Know, About the Changing Structure of the Vehicle and Mobility Ecosystem: Tracking the Connected, Autonomous, Shared, Electric Vehicle World. In: 78th Academy of Management Annual Meeting.
• LEPOUTRE, J. (2016). Financialization in the rough: The Role of Social Identity and the Meaning of Money in Explaining the Use of MicroFinance Loans Among Rural South African Entrepreneurs. In: 32nd European Group for Organizational Studies (EGOS) Colloquium 2016.
• LEPOUTRE, J. and VALENTI, M. (2016). Of Wizards and Foucault: Boundary Configurations of Corporate Social Action in Rural Kenya. In: 2016 Academy of Management Annual Meeting.
• DONADA, C. and LEPOUTRE, J. (2015). How Activism Matters for Creating the Electromobility 2.0 Industry? In: 28th International Electric Vehicle Symposium and Exhibition (EVS28).
• DONADA, C. and LEPOUTRE, J. (2015). How Activism Matters for Creating the Electromobility 2.0 Industry? In: 23rd International Conference of GERPISA.
• LEPOUTRE, J., VENTRESCA, M. and VALENTE, M. (2014). Engaging Ostrom: Why and How Organizational Theorists Should. In: 2014 Academy of Management Annual Meeting.
• LEPOUTRE, J. (2014). Responding to Complex Local Problems as a Problem of Organizational Boundary Letting: A Longitudinal Case Study of Two Kenyan Firms. In: Managing Complexity Within and Across Organizational Boundaries.
• LEPOUTRE, J. and THIEMANN, M. (2013). Global Challenges, Local Responses – A Process Perspective to Regulating the 'Tragedy of the Commons' in the Financial Industry. In: Globalization and the Return of Geography.
• LEPOUTRE, J. and THIEMANN, M. (2013). Global Challenges, Local Responses – An Institutional Perspective to Regulating the "Tragedy of the Commons". In: 29th EGOS Colloquium 2013.
• VALENTE, M. and LEPOUTRE, J. (2013). Organizational Response to Systemic Problems: Network Identity and Self-Governance Systems. In: 2013 Academy of Management Africa Conference.

• LEPOUTRE, J. (2019). AC / DC Invest. ESSEC Business School.