Annuaire

Kevin LEVILLAIN

Fonction: Enseignant Chercheur

Centre: CGS - Centre de Gestion Scientifique

Implantation: Paris

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Téléphone: 01.40.51.91.01

Bureau: J.303

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 (1^st year)
• Co-head of the course “Governement of the Firm” – Mines Paris (3^rd year)
• Co-head of the course “New Enterprises and Responsible Innovation” – Mines Paris (2^nd & 3^rd year)
• Co-head of the "Designing to Innovate" courses for Engineers, PhD students and continuous training – Mines Paris (2^nd & 3^rd year) and PSL University
• “Innovation & Responsibility: new theory of the firm” for the Executive MBA – Paris Dauphine Univ.

• 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

Books

1. Demonsant, C., Hatchuel, A., Levillain, K., Segrestin, B. (2023). Le changement climatique comme péril commun : Réconcilier action climatique et justice sociale. Presses des Mines.
2. Levillain, K., B. Segrestin, A. Hatchuel, S. Vernac (2020). Entreprises, Responsabilités et Civilisations. Vers un nouveau cycle du Développement Durable, Paris : Presses des Mines
3. Segrestin, B., K. Levillain (2018). La mission de l’entreprise responsable. Principes et normes de gestion, Paris : Presses des Mines.
4. Levillain K. (2017), Les Entreprises à mission : un modèle de gouvernance pour l’innovation, Vuibert, 2017
5. 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

1. 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.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. 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.
5. 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.
6. 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
7. 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.
8. 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)

1. 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.
2. 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.
3. Demonsant C., Levillain K., Segrestin B. "Les avaries communes : étude d'une alternative plus équitable à la taxe carbone", RIODD, Sep 2021, Montpellier, France.
4. 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.
5. 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.
6. Levillain K., B. Segrestin, “Is Law Normalizing Hybrid Corporations: Putting Profit-with-Purpose Corporations into historical perspective”, EURAM, Jun 2017, Glasgow, UK
7. Levillain K., B. Segrestin, “Entrepreneur’s wealth vs. Firm’s welfare: exploring an “evergreen” governance for firm succession”, EURAM, Jun 2016, Paris, France

3. 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
4. Levillain K., A. Hatchuel, B. Segrestin, “Is law normalizing hybrid organizations? Guidelines from multi-purpose corporations”, SMS Conference, Oct 2015, Denver, US
5. Levillain K., B. Segrestin. “The Blind Spot of Corporate Social Responsibility: Changing the legal framework of the firm”, EURAM, Jun 2014, Valencia, Spain
6. 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.
7. Levillain, K. and B. Segrestin. “Partnering to innovate or partnering innovation? The binding effect of generative potentials”. IPDMC 2013. Paris.
8. Levillain K., Segrestin B. “A mission-centric view of the firm: Lessons from Social Entrepreneurship”, R&D Management Conference 2012, Grenoble, France.