
Jacqueline Fendt is emeritus professor of strategy and entrepreneurship at ESCP Europe and founder and former Scientific Director of the school’s Chair of Entrepreneurship (now JB Say Institute). She holds bachelors in organization science and business administration (distinction), an MBA from GSBA/Boston University, a Ph.D. in mathematics (cum laude) from Leiden University, Netherlands, a PhD in business administration from JCME Boston/Zurich and a Habilitation in Management Science from Strasbourg University, France. After teenage years as a national swimming champion Jacqueline Fendt founded and managed her first company at age 23 in Malta: a translation and interpretation service. Back in her native Switzerland she then embarked upon a corporate career with executive positions at Ciba-Geigy Basel (now Novartis), Digital Equipment Corporation (now HP) in Zurich and Siber Hegner Group (now DKSH) in Tokyo. In 1994 she was appointed CEO of Swiss Shipping and Neptune Co. Ltd (now Rhenus) in Basel, and radically restructured this mythical but deficitary European inland navigation group. In March 1997 Jacqueline Fendt was appointed by the Swiss Government to head Expo.01, a large once-in-a-generation national exhibition for which she raised several hundred million Euros before leaving the project in a highly mediated political clash. In 1999 she founded and chaired Business Angels Schweiz,www.businessangels.ch), an organization that identifies, finances and coaches promising seed and start-up companies, mainly in bio- and nanotech. From 2001-2004 she was Dean of the Graduate School of Business Administration (www.gsba.ch). Jacqueline also serves on the boards of international companies in the life sciences and transportation industries and is a long-standing expert to the European Commission in Innovation and Entrepreneurship.
Academic Articles
2020
Les entreprises se racontent-elles des histoires ?
ENTREPRISES ET HISTOIRE, 2020/3 N° 100, 127-138
Academic Articles
2018
Convincing Qualitative Research: What Constitutes Persuasive Writing?
ORGANIZATIONAL RESEARCH METHODS, 21(1), pp. 30-67
Academic Articles
2017
Qualitative Inquiry in Management: Methodological Dilemmas and Concerns in Meta-Analysis
EUROPEAN MANAGEMENT REVIEW, Vol. 14, Issue 2, pp. 185-204
Other Intellectual Contributions
2016
Venture capital and its French exception: Explaining performance through human capital, policy and institutional failures
SCIENCE AND PUBLIC POLICY, 43, 5, 660 - 679
Working Papers
2014
Parents' OTC Medication Behavior with their Children: Toward a Conceptual Framework of Cognition, Affect and Behavior
British Academy of Management
Academic Articles
2012
Small firms and the growth stage: can entrepreneurship education programmes be supportive ?
INDUSTRY AND HIGHER EDUCATION, 26, 79-100
Academic Articles
2012
La dérive situationniste. Le plus court chemin pour apprendre à entreprendre ?, in : Le management face à la complexité
REVUE FRANCAISE DE GESTION, 223, 181-200
Conference Presentations
2012
Qualitative Meta-Studies in Management Research: The Emergence of a Method
Academy of Management (AOM)
Conference Presentations
2012
Entrepreneurship Learning at the Edge - Radical Pedagogic Experimentations at a Paris Business School
International Conference of Small Business (ICSB)
Academic Articles
2011
Relevance and creativity through design-driven action research: Introducing pragmatic adequacy
EUROPEAN MANAGEMENT JOURNAL, Vol. 29, Issue 3, pp.217-233 17 p.