RESEARCH

 

About my research

My research topics are open innovation and digital economics dealing with both managerial and market-based aspects. My work explores how new productive activities driven by external – non commercial – players may lead to valuable outcomes for traditional – potentially for-profit – players. For this purpose I study the market-based benefits that traditional productive entities may derive from surrounding – alternative – activities and the organizational mechanisms to be set up to reach such profitable outcomes. I am thus interested in measuring the impact of community-based initiatives led by atypical productive players on the valuation of productive activities at both private – commercial – and public – collective – levels.

Focusing on the cases of open source software development and file-sharing activities, my results show that cooperative participation patterns between traditional productive entities and new community-based – user-driven – organizations are likely to deliver variable outcomes to both of them. As such, the so-called 'open innovation' model enables players to mutually benefit from the reshape of the industrial landscape it generates, whether it deals with legal or 'outlaw' sources of innovation. Such a model nevertheless requires the setting up of organizational readjustments for sustainable gains to be derived from the 'open' paradigm shift.

Through both a managerial and market-based lens, the goal of my current research is to better understand (1) the microstructures of community-based innovative organizations, (2) the conditions for which cooperation dynamics provide mutual benefits to both commercial and non-commercial organizations, (3) the suitability of the business models that are likely to emerge from such cooperation patterns, and (4) the shifting role of intellectual property rights in this framework.



Research interests

Internet Economics Applied Microeconomics Market Theory
Software Economics Industrial Economics Organization Theory
Innovation Economics Defense Economics

Knowledge Management




Awards

  • Recipient of the best paper award of the ‘1st 2007 joint International eCASE Conference’, Harbour Plaza, Hong Kong, August 2007
    Paper: “File-sharing on the Internet: Digital goods consumption and organizational issues”


Publications - Peer-reviewed journals

  • “Open source software reshaping Defense-related management of technologies”
    With David W. Versailles (2nd author, Thomas Le Texier 1st author)
    International Journal of Open Source Software & Processes 1(2), 14-27
  • “Gouvernance des programmes de Défense et de Sécurité et dynamique de l’adoption des nouvelles technologies :
    le cas des logiciels Open Source”
    With David W. Versailles (2nd author, Thomas Le Texier 1st author)
    Economie et Institution, special issue under the direction the direction of David W. Versailles (forthcoming, December 2008)


Publications - Proceedings

  • “Managing Knowledge Within Military Open Source Software (MOSS) Projects”
    With Pierre Barbaroux (1st author, Thomas Le Texier 2nd author)
    Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Intellectual Capital Knowledge Management
    & Organisational Learning, Academic Conferences Limited, pp. 53-60. October 2007
    ISBN: 978-1-905305-61-2 Book

  • “File-sharing on the Internet: Digital goods consumption and organizational issues”
    Proceedings of the 2007 International joint Conference on e-Commerce, e-Administration, e-Society, and e-Education. August 2007.
    ISBN: 987-986-83038-1-2

  • “Commercial or Open Source Software? Winner-Takes-All Competition, Partial Adoption and Efficiency”,
    With Eric Darmon (1st author) and Dominique Torre (3rd author, Thomas Le Texier 2nd author)
    Proceedings of the 2006 Telecom ParisTech Conference on the Economics of Information and Communication Technologies. June 2006.
    ENST2006S03


Working papers

  • “Pricing the VoD activity in a hostile environment: Piracy, 'sampling' and profitability”,
    with Maher Gordah and Moustapha Niang, 2009

  • “Understanding the file-sharing organizational model: Innovation, coordination mechanisms, adoption patterns and commercial opportunism”,
    with Maher Gordah, 2009

  • “Efficacité de l'aide internationale au développement et information asymétrique : une analyse multi-agents”, with Maher Gordah, 2009

  • “Towards new hybrid software development models? Security, production, and adoption dynamics within software projects”, with David W. Versailles, 2008

  • “Peer-to-peer networks and complementary goods: the impact of openness and innovation on profitable piracy”, 2008

  • “Managing knowledge within military open source software (MOSS) projects: Capabilities, modularity and embeddedness”, with Pierre Barbaroux, 2007

  • “Managing knowledge and innovation within open source software projects: the case of the U.S. Department of Defense”, with Pierre Barbaroux, 2007

  • “File-sharing on the Internet: Digital goods consumption and organizational issues”, 2007

  • “How does technology affect industrial activities? The case of open source software within the DoD”,
    with David W. Versailles, 2007

  • “Réseaux d’échange marchands vs réseaux de Peer-to-Peer : concurrence ou complémentarité ?”, 2007

  • “Internet et nouveaux modèles organisationnels : l’exemple des réseaux d’échanges de fichiers”, 2006

  • “Communautés et nouveaux modes de consommation : l’exemple de l’industrie des biens culturels”, 2006

  • “Commercial or Open Source Software? Winner-Takes-All Competition, Partial Adoption and Efficiency”,
    with Eric Darmon and Dominique Torre, 2006

  • “Diffusion technologique et dynamique de marché : le cas du logiciel libre et du logiciel propriétaire”, 2005

  • “Concurrence et discrimination sur les marchés électroniques”, 2004



Conferences and workshops

  • Séminaire WP, GREDEG, Sophia Antipolis, November 2009

  • 3rd FLOSS International Workshop on Free/Libre Open Source Software: Free/Libre Open Source, Open Innovation and the Emergence of Open Business Models, Università degli Studi di Padova, Padua, July 2009

  • 4th Telecom ParisTech Conference on the Economics of Information and Communication Technologies, Telecom ParisTech, Paris, June 2009

  • 2nd Doctoral Meeting of Montpellier, Université de Montpellier, Montpellier, May 2009

  • 2nd FLOSS International Workshop on Free/Libre Open Source Software: Open Models and Cooperation within Online Communities, Université de Rennes 1, Rennes, June 2008

  • Free/Libre Open Source Software (FLOSS) 1.5 Workshop: Open Source Software and Security Issues, French Airforce Academy, Salon de Provence, April 2008

  • 1st Online services Conference: Networks – Contents – Usages, Université Paris Sud 11, Sceaux, December 2007

  • 4th ICICKM, University of Stellenbosch Business School, Cape Town, October 2007

  • 3rd Knowledge Forum on Knowledge Management for Fostering Innovation, CERAM Business School, Sophia Antipolis, September 2007

  • 1st 2007 joint International eCASE Conference, Harbour Plaza, Hong Kong, August 2007

  • 3rd International Conference on Open Source Systems (Toward a new industrial organization? Open-source software in economic and managerial perspective), University of Limerick, Limerick, June 2007

  • 1st Workshop on “The diffusion of FLOSS and the Organization of the Software Industry”, GREDEG, Sophia Antipolis,
    June 2007

  • 33rd EARIE, Amsterdam School of Economics, Amsterdam, August 2006

  • 1st ICT Conference, Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécomunications, Paris, June 2006

  • Séminaire WP, GREDEG, Sophia Antipolis, June 2006

  • Groupe de travail Interactions, GREQAM, Marseille, April 2006

  • XV èmes Journées du SESAME, Université de Rennes 1, Rennes, September 2005

  • 5th ZEW ICT Conference, ZEW, Manheim, July 2005

  • 3rd Young Researchers Meeting at the “ICT and Society” research consortium, Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécomunications, Paris, June 2005

  • 2nd Augustin Cournot Doctoral Days, Pôle Européen de Gestion et d’Economie, Strasbourg, April 2005

  • 2nd Young Researchers Meeting at the “ICT and Society” research consortium, Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées, Marne-la-Vallée, January 2004



Non-academic press articles

  • "Guerre des standards ou standardisation de la guerre ? L'exemple des formats vidéographiques haute-définition"
    ADMEO Newsletter and Avocats-Publishing, November 2008

  • "Paysage audiovisuel français et structures de marché : la fusion CanalSatellite - TPS"
    ADMEO Newsletter, May 2007