Member – BEZ Matilda

Information
Montpellier Management
Richter Space – Vendémiaire Street
34,000 Montpellier
Office B433
Disciplinary Group
Sea Matilda Bez is a lecturer and researcher at Montpellier Management (University of Montpellier). She is also a member of the steering committee for the Horizon 2020 DiHECO project.
recent publications
Publication of academic articles
- Asta Pundziene, Neringa Gerulaitiene, Sea Matilda Bez, Irène Georgescu, Christopher Mathieu, et al.. Value capture and embeddedness in social-purpose-driven ecosystems.: A multiple-case study of European digital healthcare platforms. Technovation, 2023, 124, pp.102748.
- Bez Matilda Bez, Georgescu Irène, Farazi Mohammed Saleh. TripAdvisor of healthcare: Opportunities for value creation through patient feedback platforms. Technovation. 2022 Sep 19:102625.
- Frédéric Le Roy, Sea Matilda Bez, Johanna Gast. Unpacking the management of Oligo-coopetition strategies in the absence of a moderating third party.Industrial Marketing Management, 2021, 98, pp.125-137.
- Sea Matilda Bez, Henry Chesbrough. Competitor Collaboration Before a Crisis: What the AI Industry Can Learn. Research Technology Management, Industrial Research Institute Inc, 2020, 63 (3), pp. 42–48.
- Thuy Seran, Sea Matilda Bez. Open Innovation’s “Multiunit Back-End Problem”: How Corporations Can Overcome Business Unit Rivalry. California Management Review, University of California Press, 2021, 63 (2), pp.135-157.
- Sea Matilda Bez. Technological coopetition: why and how to share technology with competitors. Innovations – Journal of Innovation Economics and Management, De Boeck Supérieur, 2018, 55 (1), pp.89. ⟨10.3917/inno.pr1.0027⟩.
- Bez S.M., Berkowitz H., Guerineau M. (2016) "Cooperating to publish. A collaborative checklist to avoid desk rejection," Le Libellio d'AEGIS, Vol. 12, No. 2 – Summer 2016, pp. 33-40.
Publications book chapter
- Bez, Sea Matilda, and Frédéric Le Roy, ‘Open Innovation and Coopetition: Toward Coopetitive Open Innovation’, in Henry Chesbrough, and others (eds),The Oxford Handbook of Open Innovation, 2024, (Oxford Academic).
- Sea Matilda Bez, Henry Chesbrough. Barriers in Searching for Alternative Business Models: An Essay on the Fear of Looking Foolish. Sund, K.J.; Galavan, R.J.; Bogers, M.Business Models and Cognition, 4, 2021, (New Horizons in Managerial and Organizational Cognition.)
- Sea Matilda Bez, Frédéric Le Roy, Stéphanie Dameron. Co-opetition: how to combine protection and information sharing.Economic Intelligence: informing, protecting, influencing, Pearson, pp.193-206, 2016.
- Sea Matilda Bez, Frédéric Le Roy, P. Goursaud, Estelle Pellegrin-Boucher. The English Patient. Julien Granata; Pierre Marquès.Coopetition: Teaming Up with Your Competitors to Win, Pearson, 2014.
Press article
- Sea Matilda Bez, Saleh Farazi, Irène Georgescu. How Tripadvisor for hospitals and clinics can improve healthcare. 2023,https://theconversation.com/how-tripadvisor-for-hospitals-and-clinics-can-improve-healthcare-209172
Case study
- Henry Chesbrough, Sea Matilda Bez, Agustin Moro. Engaging with Startups 2.0: Involving Competitors – A Telefónica Perspective.Harvard Business Review Case Studies, 2023,https://store.hbr.org/product/engaging-with-startups-2-0-involving-competitors-a-telefonica-perspective/B6045
- Sea Matilda Bez, Ysé Commandré. DANONE: Between activist funds and mission-driven companies, which governance model should be adopted? 2023,https://www.ccmp.fr/collection-ccmp/cas-danone-entre-fonds-activiste-et-entreprise-a-missions-quel-modele-de-gouvernance.
Funding and call for projects
| Project title | Source de financement | Amount(Euros) | Period | Role |
| DiHECO (Digital innovation in health ecosystem) | H2020 project – Twinning Program | €899 07,50 | December 2020–November 2023 | Member of the Project Steering Committee and principal investigator for Montpellier |
| BRIDPOL (Policy Value amidst Hybridity) | Academy of Finland | €279,995.00 | September 2023–August 2027 | Guest expert for a research subproject |
| Pair’s Eval (peer evaluation for assessing critical skills for managers) | AMI 2021 "Emergences" from the Ministry of Higher Education and Research. | 1:00 p.m. REH | September 2023 – September 2024 | Implementation of peer assessment in an English bachelor's degree course |
works
Bez, S. M., & Chesbrough, H. (2021). Barriers in Searching for Alternative Business Models: An Essay on the Fear of Looking Foolish. In Sund, K. J., Galavan, R. J., & Bogers, M. (Eds.), *Business Models and Cognition* (New Horizons in Managerial and Organizational Cognition, Vol. 4). Edward Elgar Publishing. ISBN: 978-1-83982-063-2.
Bez, S. M., Le Roy, F., & Dameron, S. (2016). Coopetition: how to combine protection and information sharing? In A. Guilhon & N. Moinet (Eds.), *Economic Intelligence Manual: Informing, protecting, influencing* (pp. 193-206). Pearson.
Bez, S. M., Le Roy, F., Goursaud, P., & Pellegrin-Boucher, E. (2014). The English Patient. In J. Granata & P. Marquès (Eds.), *Coopetition: teaming up with your competitors to win* (pp. 125-153). Pearson.
functions and research
Sea Matilda Bez is a lecturer in Management Sciences at Montpellier Management (University of Montpellier, MOMA) and a member of the steering committee for the Horizon 2020 DiHECO project.
Areas of teaching:
- Contemporary management issues
- Management
- Strategic management
- Economic intelligence and platforms
- Business model
- Entrepreneurship and innovation in the ecological transition and circular economy
Her research focuses on coopetition and radical innovation. She explores how companies can collaborate while remaining competitive to foster meaningful innovation.
route
Ph.D – University of Montpellier (2017)
Subject: Strategies and management of coopetition (cooperation between competitors), Business strategy
Master's Degree in Business Strategy (2012–2013)
Paris Dauphine University-PSL
Major thesis: "The sharing of sensitive information in inter-organizational coopetition strategies."
Master's Degree in Economics (2009–2012)
Paris-Saclay University
National competition for the recruitment of French economics teachers (2011–2012)
Secondary School Teaching Certification, Economics and Management. École Normale Supérieure Paris-Saclay
CEFAG (European Center for Advanced Management Training) 2015
High-level training program for French doctoral students, including short stays abroad.