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Business and Management
France
2026

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Business and Management

D-Index
60
Citations
22221
World Ranking
534
National Ranking
8

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Business and Management in France Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Business and Management in France Leader Award
  • 2024 - Research.com Business and Management in France Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Business and Management in France Leader Award

Overview

Alain Fayolle is affiliated with IDRAC Business School in France and has contributed extensively to research in the fields of Business, Management and Accounting as well as Social Sciences. Their scholarly work is particularly focused on subfields such as Management of Technology and Innovation, Business and International Management, Education, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, and Sociology and Political Science.

The main topics covered in their research include Entrepreneurship Studies and Influences, Innovation and Socioeconomic Development, Family Business Performance and Succession, Higher Education and Employability, Adult and Continuing Education Topics, Innovation and Knowledge Management, and Creativity in Education and Neuroscience.

Among recent papers authored or co-authored by Alain Fayolle are:

  • Entrepreneurship Education at the Crossroads: Challenging Taken-for-Granted Assumptions and Opening New Perspectives (2021, Journal of Management Inquiry)
  • Entrepreneurial space and the freedom for entrepreneurship: Institutional settings, policy, and action in the space industry (2021, Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal)
  • A transformational learning framework for sustainable entrepreneurship education: The power of Paulo Freire's educational model (2022, The International Journal of Management Education)
  • Impact of digital technologies on entrepreneurship: Taking stock and looking forward (2023, Technovation)
  • In search of creative qualitative methods to capture current entrepreneurship research challenges (2021, Journal of Small Business Management)

Alain Fayolle frequently collaborates with co-authors including Wadid Lamine, Michela Loi, Sarfraz A. Mian, R. Duncan M. Pelly, and Sandrine Le Pontois.

Their research has been published multiple times in several venues such as:

  • Entreprendre & Innover
  • The International Journal of Management Education
  • Journal of Enterprising Communities People and Places in the Global Economy
  • Academy of Management Proceedings
  • Journal of Management Inquiry

Alain Fayolle has also contributed to book publications, including those with Edward Elgar Publishing and the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique. Notable works include "Research Handbook of Women's Entrepreneurship and Value Creation" (2022) and "Stimulating Entrepreneurial Activity in a European Context. Reflections on Programs, Courses and Cases." (2024).

Best Publications

  • Assessing the impact of entrepreneurship education programmes : A new methodology

    Alain Fayolle;Benoît Gailly;Narjisse Lassas‐Clerc

  • The impact of entrepreneurship education in higher education: A systematic review and research agenda

    Ghulam Nabi;Francisco Linan;Alain Fayolle;Norris F. Krueger

  • A systematic literature review on entrepreneurial intentions: citation, thematic analyses, and research agenda

    Francisco Liñán;Alain Fayolle

  • The Impact of Entrepreneurship Education on Entrepreneurial Attitudes and Intention: Hysteresis and Persistence

    Alain Fayolle;Benoît Gailly

  • The future of research on entrepreneurial intentions

    Alain Fayolle;Francisco Liñán

  • From craft to science: Teaching models and learning processes in entrepreneurship education

    Alain Fayolle;Benoît Gailly

  • Personal views on the future of entrepreneurship education

    Alain Fayolle

  • Technology Business Incubation: An overview of the state of knowledge

    Sarfraz Mian;Wadid Lamine;Alain Fayolle

  • Entrepreneurial universities : emerging models in the new social and economic landscape

    Maribel Guerrero;David Urbano;Alain Fayolle;Magnus Klofsten

  • Beyond entrepreneurial intentions: values and motivations in entrepreneurship

    Alain Fayolle;Francisco Linan;Juan A. Moriano

  • The entrepreneurial university as driver for economic growth and social change - key strategic challenges

    Magnus Klofsten;Alain Fayolle;Maribel Guerrero;Sarfraz Mian

  • Effect and Counter-effect of Entrepreneurship Education and Social Context on Student's Intentions

    Alain Fayolle;B. Gailly;N. Lassas-Clerc

  • Paradigmes et entrepreneuriat

    Thierry Verstraete;Alain Fayolle

  • Impact of service quality on customer satisfaction in Malaysia airlines: A PLS-SEM approach

    Muhammad Shoaib Farooq;Maimoona Salam;Alain Fayolle;Norizan Jaafar

  • A CONCEPTUAL APPROACH OF ENTREPRENEURIAL ORIENTATION WITHIN SMALL BUSINESS CONTEXT

    Wassim Aloulou;Alain Fayolle

  • Entrepreneurial activity and regional competitiveness : evidence from European entrepreneurial universities

    Maribel Guerrero;David Urbano;Alain Fayolle

  • Handbook of research in entrepreneurship education: A General Perspective

    Alain Fayolle

  • Entrepreneurship and New Value Creation: The Dynamic of the Entrepreneurial Process

    Alain Fayolle

  • Evaluation of entrepreneurship education: behaviour performing or intention increasing

    A. Fayolle

  • Entrepreneurial Orientation: The Making of a Concept:

    Olivier Basso;Alain Fayolle;Véronique Bouchard

  • International entrepreneurship education: issues and newness

    Alain Fayolle;Heinz Klandt

Frequent Co-Authors

Francisco Liñán
Francisco Liñán University of Seville
Jill Kickul
Jill Kickul University of Southern California
Hans Landström
Hans Landström Lund University
Colette Henry
Colette Henry Dundalk Institute of Technology
Maribel Guerrero
Maribel Guerrero Arizona State University
David Urbano
David Urbano Autonomous University of Barcelona
Magnus Klofsten
Magnus Klofsten Linköping University
Vanessa Ratten
Vanessa Ratten La Trobe University
Mike Wright
Mike Wright Imperial College London
Sarah Jack
Sarah Jack Stockholm School of Economics

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