Incentive Alignment in Ecosystems: The Role of Complementarity Types and Multi-Sided Bargaining
Olivier Chatain
Professional Summary
About Me
Olivier Chatain is a Professor at HEC Paris in the Strategy and Business Policy Department and an Associated Researcher at IRSEM. At HEC he co-leads the Business and Geopolitics Lab. His research interests include business strategy, the role of firms in the public sphere, and how states and non-state actors exploit privately managed infrastructures to further their interests. He holds a PhD from INSEAD and served on the faculty of the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania before joining HEC Paris.
Education
PhD Management
INSEAD
MSc in Management
INSEAD
MA in Mathematical Economics and Econometrics
Université Paris I-Panthéon Sorbonne
Diplôme Grande Ecole
ESSEC
Interests
Competitive Strategy
Formal models applied to business strategy
Business strategy and great power rivalry
My Research
My research interests include competitive strategy and the theory of value capture, the role of firms in the public sphere, and how states and non-state actors exploit privately managed infrastructures to further their interests.
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Client-Related Factors and Collaboration between Human Assets
John Mawdsley
NGOs and the Creation of Value in Supply Chains
Olivier Chatain
Recent Publications
(2026).
Incentive Alignment in Ecosystems: The Role of Complementarity Types and Multi-Sided Bargaining.
Strategic Management Journal, 47 (1), 228-256.
(2023).
Renewing the Resource-Based View: New Contexts, New Concepts, and New Methods.
Strategic Management Journal.
(2022).
Client-Related Factors and Collaboration between Human Assets.
Organization Science.
(2019).
NGOs and the Creation of Value in Supply Chains.
Strategic Management Journal.
(2017).
Alleviating Managerial Dilemmas in Human-Capital-Intensive Firms Through Incentives: Evidence From M&A Legal Advisors.
Strategic Management Journal.
Working Papers
(2023).
The Ecosystem Penalty: Value Creation Technologies and Incentive Misalignment.
Working Paper.
(2023).
Generalized Biform Games.
Working Paper.
(2022).
No Easy Way Out? Platform-Mediated Political Externalities and Platform Strategy.
Working Paper.