Associate Professor at Mines Paris – PSL University
Center for Management Science – i3 UMR CNRS 9217
PhD in Management Science from MINES ParisTech, 2011-2015
Les entreprises à mission : un modèle de gouvernance pour explorer l’inconnu
(Mission-Driven Companies: a governance model for innovative collectives)
Graduated from MINES ParisTech (Civil Engineer), 2007-2010
Titles and Positions
- Co-chair of the research and teaching Chair Theory of the Enterprise (Models of governance and collective creation)
- Member of the teaching and research Chair Design Theory and Methods for Innovative design.
- Scientific coordinator of the research project funded by ANR “OSMosis” (2021-2024), "Observatory of Sociétés à Mission", in collaboration with Audencia Business School, IAE de Nantes, Université de Lille, Kedge Business School, INSEEC, and Communauté des Entreprises à Mission.
- Co-chair of the standing track "Rethinking the responsible corporation", EURAM conference (SIGs Business for Society & Corporate Governance) - Since 2019
- Chairman of the Scientific Committee of Communauté des Entreprises à Mission
Research areas and interests
My research focuses on the emergence, design, and organization of new statutes and governance models for innovative companies. I study the impact of the definition of a collective “purpose” beyond classical for-profit objectives and of the mechanisms of shareholder and stakeholder commitment on the firm's innovation capability.
Areas of interest:
- Theory and models of the innovative company and its governance: models of collective creation, models of corporate social responsibility, governance innovations;
- Model of the mission-driven corporation (société à mission): legal forms and engineering of governance and mission management (history and recent changes in the law of company forms, hybrid organizations & social entrepreneurship, impact investing). Empirical experiments of the Société à Mission (functioning of governance bodies, strategic and managerial issues);
- Solidarity in the face of the unknown: mechanisms for distributing value and risk in unknown situations (common damage rule, insurance models in innovative design);
- Investment and shareholding with a mission: emerging forms of "green" finance or investment for a "just transition".
Awards
- "Livre RH" award 2019 from Le Monde, Syntec and SciencesPo for the book "La Mission de l'Entreprise Responsable" (2018, dir. B. Segrestin, K. Levillain)
- Best Research Book in Management Science Award from the FNEGE, 2018 and from Consult’in France 2018 for the book “Les Entreprises à Mission”.
- Best PhD Thesis in Management Science Award for Publication of the FNEGE, 2016
- Best Paper Award of the Business for Society SIG at EURAM conference, 2015 in Warsaw for the paper « Renewing the debate on the purpose of the corporation: A purpose-driven model of the corporation », K. Levillain, B. Segrestin, A. Hatchuel
Teaching Activities
- Co-head of the cours “Entreprises and contemporary challenges of industrial management” coupled with work internship – Mines Paris (1st year)
- Co-head of the course “Governement of the Firm” – Mines Paris (3rd year)
- Co-head of the course “New Enterprises and Responsible Innovation” – Mines Paris (2nd & 3rd year)
- Co-head of the "Designing to Innovate" courses for Engineers, PhD students and continuous training – Mines Paris (2nd & 3rd year) and PSL University
- “Innovation & Responsibility: new theory of the firm” for the Executive MBA – Paris Dauphine Univ.
Supervision of PhD theses
- Co-supervision of Laure-Anne Parpaleix's PhD thesis, defended in 2019: “Can private equity sustainably support the growth of companies?”
- Co-supervision of Jérémy Lévêque’s PhD thesis, defended in 2022: "From impact to mission: model and tools for a commitment to the unknown"
- Co-supervision of Charlotte Demonsant's PhD thesis: "General averages: a new model of solidarity in the face of climate change”
- Co-supervision of Antoine Goutaland's PhD thesis: “Energy solidarity: a perspective on the role of the mission operator in a regime of intensive innovation”
- Co-supervision of Thomas Enjalbert's PhD thesis: “Mission and additionality in impact investing”
Publications
Peer-reviewed journal articles
- Lévêque, J., Levillain, K., Segrestin, B., & Delfeld, C. (2023). « Faire de la raison d’être un facteur de résilience : le cas GRTgaz ». Réalités industrielles. Annales des mines
- Levillain, K., Lévêque, J., Segrestin, B., & Hatchuel, A. (2022). « La gouvernance de la société à mission : Du cas Danone aux premiers enseignements de la recherche ». Entreprises et sociétés, 1 (11).
- Segrestin, B., Hatchuel, A., & Levillain, K. (2022). “Rethinking the purpose of the corporation with the creative power of the enterprise”. Research in the Sociology of Organizations, 78.
- Segrestin, B., K. Levillain, A. Hatchuel (2022). “Management & Law: The Forgotten Contribution of P. Selznick.” M@n@gement, 25(1), 69–78.
- Hatchuel, A., Levillain, K., Segrestin, B. (2021). « Comment la loi a instauré l’entreprise comme un acteur politique. Analyse historique et théorique de la loi Pacte et de la loi sur le devoir de vigilance ». Entreprises et Histoire, 104(3)
- Levillain, K., Segrestin, B. & Hatchuel, A. (2021). “La mission : une norme de gestion comme fondement de la gouvernance de l’entreprise responsable". Revue internationale de droit économique, XXXV, 193-205.
- Segrestin, B., A. Hatchuel, K. Levillain (2021). “When the law distinguishes between the enterprise and the corporation: the case of the new French law on corporate purpose”, Journal of Business Ethics, 171 (1), 1-13.
- Parpaleix, L. A., Levillain, K., & Segrestin, B. (2021). "Accompagner sans financer : une nouvelle doctrine d’investissement de l’État au capital des ETI". Revue de la régulation, 30.
- Demonsant, C., Hatchuel, A., Levillain, K., & Segrestin, B. (2021). "De la ressource commune au péril commun: Repenser nos modèles de l’action climatique". Revue de l’organisation responsable, 16(3), 57-67.
- Levillain, K., B. Segrestin (2019). “From primacy to purpose commitment: How emerging profit-with-purpose corporations open new corporate governance avenues”, European Management Journal, 37 (5).
- Parpaleix, L. A., Levillain, K., & Segrestin, B. (2019). Financing the next generations of innovation: New dimensions in the private equity model. Journal of Innovation Economics Management, (2), 7-41.
- Levillain, K., B. Segrestin (2019). “On Inventing the Purpose-Driven Enterprise”, Valuation Studies, 6 (1), pp. 87–93.
- Levillain K., Agogué M., Berthet E. (2016), "Innovation sociale et innovation radicale sont-elles contradictoires ? Maîtriser la formulation de la mission sociale pour assurer la générativité", Revue Française de Gestion, 42 (255), pp.41-55
- Hooge S., O. Kokshagina, P. Le Masson, K. Levillain, et al. (2016) “Gambling or Designing: Organizing for the Design of the Probability Space in the Energy Sector”, Creativity and Innovation Management, 25 (4), pp.464-483
- Agogué M., K. Levillain, S. Hooge (2015), “Gamification of creativity: exploring the usefulness of serious games for ideation”, Creativity and Innovation Management, 24 (3), pp. 415-429
- Levillain, K., B. Segrestin, A. Hatchuel (2014). "Repenser les finalités de l’entreprise : la contribution des sciences de gestion dans un monde post-hégélien", Revue française de gestion, 40 (245).
- Segrestin B., K. Levillain, A. Hatchuel, S. Vernac (2014) "L’objet social étendu : une voie pour réaligner le droit et la théorie des parties prenantes", Finance Contrôle Stratégie, 2014, 17 (3), pp.30-50.
- Levillain K., B. Segrestin, A. Hatchuel (2012), "L’impensé de la RSE : la révision du cadre légal de l’entreprise", Revue Française de Gestion, 38 (228-229)
Books
- Demonsant, C., Hatchuel, A., Levillain, K., Segrestin, B. (2023). Le changement climatique comme péril commun : Réconcilier action climatique et justice sociale. Presses des Mines.
- Levillain, K., B. Segrestin, A. Hatchuel, S. Vernac (2020). Entreprises, Responsabilités et Civilisations. Vers un nouveau cycle du Développement Durable, Paris : Presses des Mines
- Segrestin, B., K. Levillain (2018). La mission de l’entreprise responsable. Principes et normes de gestion, Paris : Presses des Mines.
- Levillain K. (2017), Les Entreprises à mission : un modèle de gouvernance pour l’innovation, Vuibert, 2017
- Segrestin B., K. Levillain, S. Vernac et A. Hatchuel (Eds.), La Société à Objet Social Étendu : un nouveau statut pour l’entreprise, Presses des Mines, 2015.
Book Chapters
- Stimec, A., Levillain, K., Segrestin, B. (2023). Dialogue. In Jacob Dahl Rendtorff, Maria Bonnafous-Boucher. Dialogue. Encyclopedia of Stakeholder Management, Edward Elgar Publishing, pp.79-83.
- Hatchuel, A., Levillain, K., Segrestin, B. (2022). L'entreprise à mission comme nouvelle forme de citoyenneté économique. In Benoit Hamon. La citoyenneté économique peut-elle sauver l'avenir ?, Des Equateurs Eds.
- Hatchuel, A., Segrestin, B., Levillain, K. (2021). Responsabilité, Raison d’être et société à mission. Les sources théoriques d’une réforme pionnière de l’entreprise. In Alexandre Menais. Raison d’être, responsabilité et engagement: l’entreprise au-delà du capitalisme, LexisNexis, 2021.
- Levillain, K., B. Segrestin, A. Hatchuel (in Press). “Profit-with-Purpose Corporations: An Innovation in Corporate Law to Meet Contemporary Corporate Social Responsibility Challenges”, in A. McWilliams, D. Rupp, D. Siegel, G. Stahl & D. Waldman. Oxford Handbook of Corporate Social Responsibility: Psychological and Organizational Perspectives, Oxford University Press.
- Levillain, K., S. C. Parker, R. Ridley-Duff, B. Segrestin, J. Veldman (2018). “Protecting Long-Term Commitment: Legal and Organizational Means”, in C. Driver & G. Thompson. Corporate Governance in Contention, Oxford University Press.
- Levillain K., Hatchuel A., Segrestin B. (2014), "Normer l'entreprise pour l'émanciper ? Vers de nouvelles options juridiques". In L'entreprise, point aveugle du savoir. Segrestin, B. Roger and S. Vernac. (Eds) Colloque de Cerisy, Sciences Humaines Editions
- Levillain K. (2013), “L'émergence de nouvelles formes de société : l'exemple de la Flexible Purpose Corporation". In L'Entreprise multinationale dans tous ses Etats, Archives de philosophie du droit tome 56, Dalloz.
- Segrestin B., K. Levillain, A. Hatchuel (2015), “L'objet social étendu : une condition pour l'industrie". In L'industrie, notre avenir. P. Weltz et T. Weil (Eds) Eyrolles
Conference proceedings (selection)
- Levillain, K., Lévêque, J., Segrestin, B., Hacthuel, A. (2022). “The emergence of multipolar corporate governance: the case of Danone and the French Société à Mission”, EURAM, Jun 2022, Winterthur, Switzerland.
- Hooge, S., Pezaku, K., Dalmasso, C., Levillain, K. (2022). “Piloter le patrimoine industriel pour gérer la transformation « 4.0 » : le cas de la Haute Horlogerie", AIMS, May 2022, Annecy, France.
- Demonsant C., Levillain K., Segrestin B. "Les avaries communes : étude d'une alternative plus équitable à la taxe carbone", RIODD, Sep 2021, Montpellier, France.
- Levillain, K., Reiser, D. B., Segrestin, B., Stahl, G. K., & Voegtlin, C. (2019). Panel Symposium on The Purpose-Driven Corporate Forms: Tackling Grand Societal Challenges with Innovations in Governance and Corporate Responsibility, Academy of Management, Boston, US.
- Levillain, K., B. Segrestin. “From Primacy to Commitment: Revising corporate governance theories to account for recent legal innovations in the US”, EURAM, Jun 2018, Reykjavik, Iceland.
- Levillain K., B. Segrestin, “Is Law Normalizing Hybrid Corporations: Putting Profit-with-Purpose Corporations into historical perspective”, EURAM, Jun 2017, Glasgow, UK
- Levillain K., B. Segrestin, “Entrepreneur’s wealth vs. Firm’s welfare: exploring an “evergreen” governance for firm succession”, EURAM, Jun 2016, Paris, France
- Levillain K., B. Segrestin, A. Hatchuel, “Renewing the debate on the purpose of corporations: A purpose-driven model of the corporation”, EURAM, Jun 2015, Warsaw, Poland
- Levillain K., A. Hatchuel, B. Segrestin, “Is law normalizing hybrid organizations? Guidelines from multi-purpose corporations”, SMS Conference, Oct 2015, Denver, US
- Levillain K., B. Segrestin. “The Blind Spot of Corporate Social Responsibility: Changing the legal framework of the firm”, EURAM, Jun 2014, Valencia, Spain
- Levillain K., A. Hatchuel and B. Segrestin. “Can venture capital foster innovation? A study of the coupling between innovation and finance”. IPDMC 2014. Limerick, Ireland.
- Levillain, K. and B. Segrestin. “Partnering to innovate or partnering innovation? The binding effect of generative potentials”. IPDMC 2013. Paris.
- Levillain K., Segrestin B. “A mission-centric view of the firm: Lessons from Social Entrepreneurship”, R&D Management Conference 2012, Grenoble, France.
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