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Montpellier Management

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Sea Matilda Bez is a lecturer and researcher at Montpellier Management (University of Montpellier). She is also a member of the steering committee of the Horizon 2020 DiHECO project.

recent publications

Academic publications

  • 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 your technology with your competitor. Innovations - Revue d'économie et de management de l'innovation, 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 reject", Le Libellio d'AEGIS, Vol. 12, n°2 - Summer 2016, p.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. Coopetition: how to combine protection and information sharing. Intelligence Economique: s'informer, se protéger, influencer, Pearson, pp.193-206, 2016.
  • Sea Matilda Bez, Frédéric Le Roy, P. Goursaud, Estelle Pellegrin-Boucher. The English Patient. Julien Granata; Pierre Marquès. Coopetition allying with competitors to win, Pearson, 2014.

Press article

Case studies

Financing and call for projects

Project titleFunding sourceAmount(Euro)PeriodRole
DiHECO (Digital innovation in health ecosystem)H2020 project - Twinning Program €899 07,50 Dec 2020- Nov 2023 Member of the Project Steering Committee and principal investigator for Montpellier
 BRIDPOL(Policy Value amidst HybridityAcademy of Findland€279,995.00Sep 2023-Aug 2027Expert invited for a research sub-project
Pair's Eval (peer evaluation to assess critical skills for managers) AMI 2021 "Emergences" from the French Ministry of Higher Education and Research.13 hours REHSept 2023 - Sept 2024Implementation of peer assessment in a Bachelor's degree course in English
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.), *Manuel Intelligence économique: S'informer, se protéger, influencer* (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: allying with 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, WOAgri) and a member of the steering committee for the Horizon 2020 DiHECO project.

Teaching areas :

  • Contemporary management issues
  • Management
  • Strategic management
  • Business 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 still competing to foster meaningful innovation.

route

Ph.D - University of Montpellier (2017)

Subject: Strategies and management of coopetition (cooperation between competitors), Corporate strategy

Master's degree in Corporate Strategy (2012 - 2013)  

Université Paris Dauphine-PSL

Major thesis: "Sharing sensitive information in inter-organizational cooperation strategies".

Master's degree in Economics (2009 - 2012)

École Normale Supérieure Paris-Saclay

National competition for the recruitment of French economics teachers (2011 - 2012) 

"Agrégation du secondaire", Economics and Management. École Normale Supérieure Paris-Saclay

CEFAG (Centre Européen de Formation Avancée en Gestion) 2015 

High-level training program for French doctoral students, including short stays abroad.