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 A Montréal. Her research and teaching focus on new paradigms in marketing and strategy and on connecting the macro, the mezzo and the micro levels of business relationships in global and local contexts. More specifically, she explores 82B relationships far beyond the traditional buyer-seller dyad to grasp the complexity of interactions and networksof actors.
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.
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.