Understanding Business Ecosystems : How Firms Succeed in the New World of Convergence ?

Soumaya Ben Letaifa is an associate professor of Strategy at the Management School of Université du Québec à Montréal. Her research and teaching focus on new paradigms in marketing and strategy (open innovation, coopetition, business ecosystems, service-dominant logic) and on connecting the macro, the mezzo and the micro levels of business relationships in global and local contexts. More specifically, she explores B2B relationships far beyond the traditional buyer-seller dyad to grasp the complexity of interactions and networks of actors (including Governments, citizens, universities and all stakeholders involved in the value co-creation process).
She is an expert of ecosystem theory and is regularly invited as a key speaker. Anne Gratacap est maître de conférences, habilitée à diriger les recherches à l'Université Paris I Panthéon Sorbonne, UFR de Gestion. Ancienne élève de l'Ecole Normale Supérieure et Agrégée d'Economie et de Gestion, ses principaux travaux de recherche concernent le domaine de la stratégie d'entreprise, des systèmes d'information et de la configuration des organisations.
Ancienne directrice du M2 Innovation et Management des Technologies, elle est actuellement co-directeur du M2 Stratégie commerciale et Politique de négociation. Elle co-dirige aussi le pôle de recherche Stratégie-Ressources humaines du PRISM. Anne Gratacap studied at the Ecole Normale Supérieure. She is Professor of strategic management in University of Paris 1 Pantheon - Sorbonne. She co-manages M2 Commercial Strategy and the Negotiation Policy unit.
Her research into corporate strategy concerns the role played by Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) in the reconfiguration of organizations and corporate strategies. Thierry Isckia is full-time Professor of strategic management in Telecom Ecole de Management (Institut Mines-Telecom), Director of the Master in Strategic Management. Before joining Telecom Ecole de Management, he spent several years at the National Center for Telecommunication Studies (CNET, now Orange Labs) as a researcher in the Department of Economics & Technico-Economics Research.
His research interests are in strategic management, innovation management and knowledge management. His current research investigates business ecosystems and/or network-centric innovation, knowledge-based inter-organizational collaborations and platform-based innovation management. He is author and co-author of numerous scientific articles published in academic journals and international conferences and workshops.
Professor ISCKIA has also participated in the organization of several national and international conferences in the field of strategic management, knowledge management and IT management. Yvon Pesqueux, Emeritus Professor at CNAM, Head of the Organizational Systems Development Chair (Chaire de Développement des Systèmes d'Organisation).