Christophe ESTAY

Christophe ESTAY Research Active Faculty - Full Professor
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    • Department
      Strategy Department
    • Languages
      French
    • Teaching specialisations
      Strategy, Entrepreneurship, Research Methods, Leadership
    • Areas of research
      Strategy, Entrepreneuriat, Leadership
    • Campus
      La Rochelle

    Biography

    Christophe Estay is a professor and researcher specializing in strategy, entrepreneurship, and leadership. He holds a PhD in Management Sciences and is accredited to supervise research (HDR). His career has been focused on academic support within business and hospitality schools. He has contributed to the development of programs and research at KEDGE Business School, EM Normandie, FERRANDI Paris, and the International School of Savignac. Since 2025, he has been involved with Excelia, particularly in the field of Executive Education. His work has led to numerous publications in internationally ranked journals (Journal of Business Ethics, Journal of Managerial Psychology, Service Industries Journal…), exploring issues of governance, managerial innovation, and organizational transformation. Alongside his academic activity, he also provides consulting services and has chaired since 2004 the CEREMAD association, dedicated to entrepreneurship and sustainable development. Actively engaged in several international academic networks, he contributes to ongoing debates on management and innovation.

  • 2007

    Qualification to Direct Research, IAE de Lille, France

    1995

    PhD in Management Sciences, Université Bordeaux IV

  • 2025

    Research Active Faculty - Full Professor, Excelia, La Rochelle, France

    2022-2025

    Academic and Reserach Director, Ferrandi Paris, Paris, France

    2020-2025

    Research Associate, Research Laboratory Magellan IAE, Lyon, France

    2019-2022

    Head of Strategy & Entrepreneurship Department, EM Normandie, Caen, France

    2018-2020

    Director of the Master Entrepreneurs programme, EM Normandie, Caen, France

    2018-2022

    Professor in Management, Entrepreneurship and Strategy, EM Normandie, Caen, France

    2015-2018

    Director Management Department, KEDGE Business School,

    2013-2015

    Associate Dean for Research Development, KEDGE Business School,

    2010-2025

    Research Associate, CNAM, Paris, France

    2009-2013

    Director of Research and Accreditation (Associate Dean), Bordeaux Ecole de Management (BEM), Bordeaux, France

    2000-2018

    Professor in Management, Entrepreneurship and Strategy, KEDGE Business School,

  • Journal articles

    KHADE, V., ESTAY, C. (2025). Frugal innovation and sustainable development: a holy grail for rural transformation. International Journal of Sustainable Development, 28 (2/3), 404-429. doi:10.1504/IJSD.2025.145813.
    WU, M., LI, W., WANG, X., LU, Y., ESTAY, C. (2024). How and when workplace suspicion triggers knowledge hiding: the cross-level moderation effects of performance climate and mastery climate. Service Industries Journal, 1-30. doi:10.1080/02642069.2024.2369318.
    SARR, E. H., OMOLOBA, J., ESTAY, C., DURRIEU, F. (2024). L’influence des pratiques de ressources humaines et du climat organisationnel sur le comportement innovant au travail. Management & Prospective, Volume 40 (2), 52-61. doi:10.3917/g2000.402.0052.
    SARR, E. H., ESTAY, C., FAYE, M. (2023). L’acceptation des systèmes d’enseignement en ligne par les étudiants des établissements d’enseignement supérieur privé au Sénégal. Management et Sciences Sociales.
    KHAN, N. U., ZADA, M., ESTAY, C. (2023). Servant leadership and employee prosocial rule-breaking: The underlying effects of psychological safety and compassion at work. Public Library of Science one, 18 (4), e0282832. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0282832.
    OMOLOBA, J., ESTAY, C. (2023). EXAMINING THE DETERMINANTS OF THE LEVEL OF INFORMALIZATION OF MICRO-ENTERPRISES IN A DEVELOPMENTAL URBAN CONTEXT. Journal of Developmental Entrepreneurship, 28 (01). doi:10.1142/S1084946723500061.
    OMOLOBA, J., ESTAY, C., ADEOSUN, O. P. (2023). The Dynamics of Entrepreneurship in the Informal Economy. Journal of Intercultural Management and Ethics, 6 (1), 43-53. doi:10.35478/jime.2023.1.06.
    EWANGO-CHATELET, A., ESTAY, C. (2023). Favoriser un développement durable en Afrique subsaharienne par l’entrepreneuriat innovant : quelles conditions institutionnelles et sociétales? Organisations et Territoires, 31 (3), pp. 95-110.
    WU, M., WANG, R., ESTAY, C., SHEN, W. (2022). Curvilinear relationship between ambidextrous leadership and employee silence: mediating effects of role stress and relational energy. Journal of Managerial Psychology, 37 (8), 746-764. doi:10.1108/JMP-07-2021-0418.
    WU, M., WANG, R., WANG, H., ESTAY, C. (2022). The formation mechanism of destructive leadership behavior: from the perspective of moral deconstruction process. Leadership and Organizational Development, 43 (5), 750-772. doi:10.1108/LODJ-10-2020-0433.
    ESTAY, C., FAYE, E. H. M., MAI, C., DURRIEU, F. (2022). Complexité attributionnelle et leadership : le contexte sénégalais. Management International, 26 (3), 98-111. doi:10.7202/1090294ar.
    AHWOREGBA, A. H., GARRI, M., ESTAY, C. (2022). Subsidiaries’ behavioural responses to volatile local contexts in emerging African markets: evidence from Nigeria. Multinational Business Review, 30 (3), 364-387. doi:10.1108/MBR-06-2020-0138.
    ESTAY, C., MAI-NIVOIT, C., YANAT, Z., DURRIEU, F. (2020). La perception de la réalisation du contrat psychologique chez les ouvriers en situation de restructuration industrielle. Recherches en Sciences de Gestion, N° 139 (4), pp. 225-248.
    AHWOREGBA, A. H., ESTAY, C., GARRI, M. (2020). Institutional duality incidence on subsidiaries: configuration, differentiation and avoidance strategies. Journal of Organizational Change Management, 33 (7), 1499-1511. doi:10.1108/JOCM-02-2020-0040.
    WU, M., WANG, R., HE, P., ESTAY, C., AKRAM, Z. (2020). Examining How Ambidextrous Leadership Relates to Affective Commitment and Workplace Deviance Behavior of Employees: The Moderating Role of Supervisor–Subordinate Exchange Guanxi. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 17 (15), 5500. doi:10.3390/ijerph17155500.
    ESTAY, C., LAKSHMAN, C., BOMPAR, L., YANAT, Z. (2020). Comment un manager peut-il faire réussir un collaborateur en situation d’échec ? Question(s) de Management, n° 28 (2), 65-75. doi:10.3917/qdm.202.0065.
    AHWOREGBA, A. H., OMOLOBA, J. O., ESTAY, C. (2020). How firms risk through entrepreneurial innovations: Behavioural patterns and implications. International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation, 21 (4), 223-236. doi:10.1177/1465750320903621.
    AKHTER, M., OMOLOBA, J., ESTAY, C. (2020). Early internationalisation and networking: an inquiry into born-global firms in Pakistan. Middle East J. of Management, 7 (6), 531. doi:10.1504/MEJM.2020.110642.

    Books

    ESTAY, C., REY, F., STEFFAN, L. (2021). Stratégie et Dynamique Entrepreneuriale. Editions Ellipses.

    Chapters

    ESTAY, C. (2022). La motivation clé de la résilience entrepreneuriale. In Marie-Christine Chalus-Sauvannet & Aurélie Ewango-Chatelet (Ed.), Résilience entrepreneuriale en situations de risques et de crise: Relever les défis face à l'incertitude. Editions EMS.

  • Papers presented at academic or professional meetings

    SARR, E. H., OMOLOBA, J., ESTAY, C., DURRIEU, F. (2023). The influence of human resources practices and organisational climate on innovative behavior at work. EuroCHRIE Vienna. Vienne:
    ESTAY, C., OMOLOBA, J. (2022). The Informal sector in Nigeria: Implications and Future Perspectives. EURAM conference. Winterthur:
    ESTAY, C., SARR, E. H. (2021). The influence of human resources practices and organisational climate on innovative behavior at work. Third Edition of the Workshop Entrepreneurship, Innovations, Governance, Paris (EDC Paris Business School, OCRE Laboratory, Paris (France) ; CY Cergy Paris University, THEMA Laboratory, Paris (France)). Paris:
    ESTAY, C., EWANGO-CHATELET, A. (2021). Quelles conditions de succès d’un développement par l’entrepreneuriat ? Une approche comparative des structures d’accompagnement des TPE/PME africaines. Acfas Congrés, Université Sherbrooke, Université Bishop’s. Sherbrooke:
    ESTAY, C., ETOGO, G., OMOLOBA, J. (2021). Why do employees accommodate organizational injustice: The reasons for self-ruse. Conference AOM Division MC/ ISODC/ Le CNAM / ISEOR. Lyon:
    ESTAY, C., ETOGO, G., OMOLOBA, J. (2021). Why do employees accommodate organizational injustice: The reasons for self-ruse. EURAM conference. Montréal:
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