Dufays Frédéric

HEC Liège : UER > UER Management : Entrepreneuriat social et durable

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ORCID
0000-0002-2729-7436
Main Referenced Co-authors
Huybrechts, Benjamin  (13)
O'Shea, Noreen (5)
Billiet, Adrien (4)
Bruneel, Johan (3)
De Herde, Véronique  (3)
Main Referenced Keywords
Social entrepreneurship (11); Collective entrepreneurship (7); Entrepreneurial team (5); Entrepreneuriat social (5); Institutional logics (5);
Main Referenced Unit & Research Centers
CES - Centre d'Économie Sociale - ULiège (47)
Main Referenced Disciplines
General management, entrepreneurship & organizational theory (52)
Social economics (47)
Strategy & innovation (16)
Sociology & social sciences (4)
Business & economic sciences: Multidisciplinary, general & others (2)

Publications (total 66)

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Dufays, F. (2005). The effect of culture on businesses' perception of CSR [Master’s dissertation, UM - Universiteit Maastricht]. ORBi-University of Liège. https://orbi.uliege.be/handle/2268/148637 https://hdl.handle.net/2268/148637

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141 citations (OpenAlex)

Bauwens, T., Huybrechts, B., & Dufays, F. (2020). Understanding the diverse scaling strategies of social enterprises as hybrid organizations: the case of renewable energy cooperatives. Organization and Environment, 33 (2), 195-219. doi:10.1177/1086026619837126 https://hdl.handle.net/2268/233304

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Cossey, J., Billiet, A., Dufays, F., & Bruneel, J. (In press). How Do Institutional Prescriptions (Fail to) Address Governance Challenges Under Institutional Hybridity? The Case of Governance Code Creation for Cooperative Enterprises. Journal of Business Ethics. doi:10.1007/s10551-023-05581-z
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Billiet, A., Bruneel, J., & Dufays, F. (In press). Exit, Voice, or Both: Why Organizations Engage with Stakeholders. Business and Society. doi:10.1177/00076503231182612
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Beishenaly, N., & Dufays, F. (08 January 2023). Entrepreneurial ecosystem for cooperatives: The case of Kyrgyz agricultural cooperatives. Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics, 94 (4), 1173-1198. doi:10.1111/apce.12407
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Billiet, A.* , Dufays, F.* , Friedel, S.* , & Staessens, M.*. (2021). The resilience of the cooperative model: How do cooperatives deal with the COVID-19 crisis? Strategic Change, 30 (2), 99-108. doi:10.1002/jsc.2393
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* These authors have contributed equally to this work.

Dufays, F., O'Shea, N., Huybrechts, B., & Nelson, T. (2020). Resisting colonisation: Worker cooperatives’ conceptualisation and behaviour in a Habermasian perspective. Work, Employment and Society, 34 (6), 965–984. doi:10.1177/0950017019895936
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Huybrechts, B., Nelson, D., Nelson, T., O'Shea, N., & Dufays, F. (In press). Conform and Oppose through Numbers: Quantifying Hybrid Organizations at the International Cooperative Alliance. Journal of Management Studies. doi:10.1111/joms.13123
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Cossey, J., Billiet, A., Dufays, F., & Bruneel, J. (In press). How Do Institutional Prescriptions (Fail to) Address Governance Challenges Under Institutional Hybridity? The Case of Governance Code Creation for Cooperative Enterprises. Journal of Business Ethics. doi:10.1007/s10551-023-05581-z
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Billiet, A., Bruneel, J., & Dufays, F. (In press). Exit, Voice, or Both: Why Organizations Engage with Stakeholders. Business and Society. doi:10.1177/00076503231182612
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Dufays, F. (21 September 2024). Cooperatives: A Tool for Revitalizing Democracy and Peace? [Paper presentation]. WWA/EQ4Peace 11th Annual International Peace Conference, Nepal.

Colling, L., Dufays, F., & Van Caillie, D. (July 2024). How can workers transcend the authority of liberating leaders in collaborative organizing towards a truly emancipatory communal Other ? [Paper presentation]. 40th EGOS Colloquium 2024 - Crossroads for organizations: time, space and people, Milan, Italy.

De Herde, V., & Dufays, F. (July 2024). A configurational approach on the strategic relevance of models of cooperative value chain organizing for sustainable transformation [Paper presentation]. 40th EGOS Colloquium, Milan, Italy.

Colling, L., Dufays, F., & Van Caillie, D. (June 2024). How can workers transcend the authority of liberating leaders in collaborative organizing towards a truly emancipatory communal Other ? [Paper presentation]. 2024 – Limerick For Dignified and Sustainable Economic Lives: Disrupting the Emotions, Politics, and Technologies of Neoliberalism.

De Herde, V., & Dufays, F. (June 2024). A configurational approach on the strategic relevance of models of cooperative value chain organizing for sustainable transformation [Paper presentation]. ICA CCR Europe Research Conference, Dundee, United Kingdom.

De Herde, V., & Dufays, F. (June 2024). A configurational approach on the strategic relevance of models of cooperative value chain organizing for sustainable transformation [Paper presentation]. WOW 7 - Workshop on the Ostrom Workshop, Bloomington, United States.

Marlier, Z., & Dufays, F. (31 May 2024). How does Democracy Empower Women? Systematic Literature Review [Paper presentation]. 7th International Conference on Economic Philosophy, Reims, France.

Dufays, F. (2024). Introduction: Cooperative model and purpose driven enterprises [Paper presentation]. Cooperatives Europe Symposium.

Solbreux, J., Hermans, J., Pondeville, S., & Dufays, F. (12 February 2024). It all starts with a story: Questioning dominant entrepreneurial identities through collective narrative practices. International Small Business Journal, 42 (1), 90-123. doi:10.1177/02662426231184164
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Marlier, Z., & Dufays, F. (2024). Do cooperatives escape patriarchy ? Analysis of gender in the governance of cooperatives [Paper presentation]. 16th International ISTR Conference, Antwerp, Belgium.
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Meert, S., & Dufays, F. (05 October 2023). Silent conformity : An institutional theory perspective on the relationship between social enterprises and the SDGs [Paper presentation]. 9EMES Conference, Francfort, Germany.

Dufays, F., Huybrechts, B., & Luyckx, J. (11 July 2023). The political role of cooperatives and how political activity organizes within cooperatives: The case of the Food Co-op [Paper presentation]. ICA CCR Global and European Cooperative Research Conference, Leuven, Belgium.
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Meert, S., & Dufays, F. (23 June 2023). Silent conformity : An institutional theory perspective on the relationship between social enterprises and the SDGs [Paper presentation]. Business and Society Seminar, Rotterdam, Netherlands.

Meert, S., & Dufays, F. (May 2023). Silent conformity : An institutional perspective on the relationship between social enterprises and the SDGs [Paper presentation]. Social Entrepreneurship and Philanthropy (SEPHI) seminar, Paris, France.

Beishenaly, N., & Dufays, F. (08 January 2023). Entrepreneurial ecosystem for cooperatives: The case of Kyrgyz agricultural cooperatives. Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics, 94 (4), 1173-1198. doi:10.1111/apce.12407
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Ruiz, A., & Dufays, F. (2023). Cooperative regeneration and degeneration within the global market: a Mondragon case study [Paper presentation]. 39th EGOS Colloquium, Cagliari, Italy.
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Dufays, F., Huybrechts, B., & Luyckx, J. (2023). How political activity organizes within cooperatives: The case of the Food Co-op [Paper presentation]. EMES Conference.
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Dufays, F. (2022). Compte-rendu de « Anne-Catherine Wagner, Coopérer. Les SCOP et la fabrique de l’intérêt collectif ». Lectures.
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Friedel, S., & Dufays, F. (2022). From Theory to Practice: Social Capital in Agricultural Cooperatives in Flanders, Belgium. In S. Novkovic, K. Miner, ... C. McMahon, Humanistic Governance in Democratic Organizations: The Cooperative Difference (pp. 249-283). Springer. doi:10.1007/978-3-031-17403-2_9
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Friedel, S., Dufays, F., & Haesebrouck, T. (2022). Identifying causal pathways to different forms of solidarity in agri-food cooperatives using csQCA [Paper presentation]. 38th EGOS Colloquium, Vienna, Austria.
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Padilla, G., Bruneel, J., & Dufays, F. (2022). It takes two to tango: Exploring the complementary roles of CEO and Chairperson of the Board. In T. K. Das, Managerial Practice Issues in Strategy and Organization (pp. 65-104). Charlotte, NC, United States: Information Age Publishing.
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Billiet, A.* , Dufays, F.* , Friedel, S.* , & Staessens, M.*. (2021). The resilience of the cooperative model: How do cooperatives deal with the COVID-19 crisis? Strategic Change, 30 (2), 99-108. doi:10.1002/jsc.2393
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* These authors have contributed equally to this work.

Staessens, M., Dufays, F., & Billiet, A. (2021). Belgian Cooperative Monitor 2021. https://orbi.uliege.be/handle/2268/262951

Beishenaly, N., & Dufays, F. (2021). Development of agricultural cooperatives in Kyrgyzstan: Who are the lead actors? Central Asian Journal of Water Research, 7 (2), 138-157. doi:10.29258/CAJWR/2021-R1.v7-2/138-157.eng
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Ben-Hafaïedh, C., & Dufays, F. (2021). Social Entrepreneurial Teams: A Research Agenda. In D. M. Wasieleski & J. Weber (Eds.), Social Entrepreneurship (pp. 173-194). Emerald Group Publishing. doi:10.1108/S2514-175920220000005008
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Bauwens, T., Huybrechts, B., & Dufays, F. (2020). Understanding the diverse scaling strategies of social enterprises as hybrid organizations: the case of renewable energy cooperatives. Organization and Environment, 33 (2), 195-219. doi:10.1177/1086026619837126
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Dufays, F., O'Shea, N., Huybrechts, B., & Nelson, T. (2020). Resisting colonisation: Worker cooperatives’ conceptualisation and behaviour in a Habermasian perspective. Work, Employment and Society, 34 (6), 965–984. doi:10.1177/0950017019895936
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Dufays, F. (2019). Food Coop in metaphors: The uneasy task of describing alternative enterprises. M@n@gement, 22 (4), 697-702.
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Gauthier, O., Léglise, L., Ouahab, A., Lanciano, E., & Dufays, F. (2019). Food Coop (2016) - Tom Boothe. M@n@gement, 22 (4), 671-673.

Dufays, F. (2019). Exploring the drivers of tensions in social innovation management in the context of social entrepreneurial teams. Management Decision, 57 (6), 1344-1361. doi:10.1108/MD-01-2017-0089
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Dufays, F., & Huybrechts, B. (2017). Entrepreneurial teams in social entrepreneurship: When team heterogeneity facilitates organizational hybridity. In C. Ben-Hafaïedh & T. Cooney (Eds.), Research handbook on entrepreneurial teams: Theory and practice (pp. 273-287). Cheltenham, United Kingdom: Edward Elgar.
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Dufays, F. (2016). Mix and match: Essays on collective dynamics in nascent social entrepreneurship [Doctoral thesis, ULiège - Université de Liège]. ORBi-University of Liège. https://orbi.uliege.be/handle/2268/201812

Dufays, F. (03 June 2016). Tensions in nascent social enterprises: Looking beyond the social-economic duality [Paper presentation]. 2016 European Academy of Management (EURAM) Conference, Paris, France.

Dufays, F. (2016). Embeddedness as a facilitator of sustainable entrepreneurship. In J. Jermier, K. Nicolopoulou, M. Karatas-Ozkan, ... F. Janssen (Eds.), Sustainable entrepreneurship and social innovation (pp. 57-72). Routledge. doi:10.4324/9781315748665
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Dufays, F., & O'Shea, N. (2016). Choisir la forme coopérative pour son entreprise : Entre rationalité et convictions. Baromètre des Entreprises Sociales en Belgique.

Nelson, T., Nelson, D., Huybrechts, B., Dufays, F., O'Shea, N., & Trasciani, G. (2016). Emergent identity formation and the co-operative: Theory building in relation to alternative organizational forms. Entrepreneurship and Regional Development, 28 (3-4), 286-309. doi:10.1080/08985626.2016.1155744
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Dufays, F., & Huybrechts, B. (2016). Where do hybrids come from? Entrepreneurial team heterogeneity as an avenue for the emergence of hybrid organizations. International Small Business Journal, 34 (6), 777-796. doi:10.1177/0266242615585152
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Dufays, F., Lovens, C., & Mertens de Wilmars, S. (2015). L’accompagnement de projets d’entrepreneuriat social dans leurs phases initiales. ORBi-University of Liège. https://orbi.uliege.be/handle/2268/187062.

Dufays, F., & O'Shea, N. (04 July 2015). The choice of the cooperative legal form: Any rationality? [Paper presentation]. 31st EGOS Colloquium, Athens, Greece.

Dufays, F. (05 May 2015). Embeddedness as a facilitator of sustainable entrepreneurship [Paper presentation]. 6th Belgian Entrepreneurship Research Day (BERD), Namur, Belgium.

Ben-Hafaïedh, C., & Dufays, F. (2015). Entrepreneurial teams in social new venture creation: A research agenda [Paper presentation]. ICSB 2015 World Conference, Dubai, United Arab Emirates.

Dufays, F., & Huybrechts, B. (20 November 2014). Collective hybrid entrepreneurship: Imprinting heterogeneity of the entrepreneurial team [Paper presentation]. XXVIII RENT research conference, Luxemburg, Luxembourg.

Dufays, F., & Mertens de Wilmars, S. (2014). Retour sur 6 ans de soutien à l'entrepreneuriat social par ImpulCera - Evaluation du programme par les candidats. https://orbi.uliege.be/handle/2268/174764

Dufays, F. (2014). Entrepreneuriat collectif : Quand entreprendre socialement se conjugue au pluriel [Paper presentation]. Journée de clôture du Programme ImpulCera, Gembloux, Belgium.

Dufays, F., & Huybrechts, B. (03 July 2014). The emergence of hybrids: Imprinting from the entrepreneurial team heterogeneity [Paper presentation]. 30th EGOS Colloquium, Rotterdam, Netherlands.

Dufays, F. (2014). Brûlons (un peu) les business plans ! La Libre Belgique.

Dufays, F. (2014). Qu'est-ce que l'entrepreneuriat social ? Origines et singularités. Baromètres des entreprises sociales en Belgique, p. 6-8.

Dufays, F. (2014). David Knoke, Economic networks. Lectures.

Dufays, F. (2014). De l'entrepreneur solitaire à l'entrepreneur solidaire [Paper presentation]. Liège Creative - Cycle "Quoi de neuf docteur ?".

Dufays, F. (2014). Pierre-Yves Cabannes et Denis Fougère, Aider à la création d’entreprise. Lectures.

Dufays, F. (2014). Creativity and entrepreneurship: Changing currents in education and public-life. International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behaviour and Research, 20 (3), 297-299.
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Dufays, F., & Huybrechts, B. (2014). Connecting the dots for social value: A review on social networks and social entrepreneurship. Journal of Social Entrepreneurship, 5 (2), 214-237. doi:10.1080/19420676.2014.918052
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Dufays, F. (2014). Book Review: Handbook of research methods on social entrepreneurship. International Small Business Journal, 32 (4), 471-475.
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Dufays, F., & Huybrechts, B. (02 September 2013). Connecting the dots for social value: A review on social networks and social entrepreneurship [Paper presentation]. 2013 International Social Innovation Research Conference, Oxford, United Kingdom.

Dufays, F., & Huybrechts, B. (02 September 2013). On the way to hybrid organizations? When worlds collide through collective entrepreneurship [Paper presentation]. 2013 International Social Innovation Research Conference, Oxford, United Kingdom.

Dufays, F., & Huybrechts, B. (2013). L'entrepreneur, plus solidaire que solitaire. La Libre Belgique.

Dufays, F., & Huybrechts, B. (July 2013). On the way to the hybrid organization? When worlds collide through collective entrepreneurship [Paper presentation]. 4th EMES International Research Conference on Social Enterprise, Liège, Belgium.

Mernier, A., Dufays, F., & Dal Fior, C. (July 2013). The determinants of charitable giving in Belgium [Paper presentation]. 4th EMES International Research Conference on Social Enterprise, Liège, Belgium.

Dufays, F. (29 May 2013). Social entrepreneurship and social networks [Paper presentation]. 2nd IAP-SOCENT Day, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium.

Dufays, F. (2013). Collective Entrepreneurship, a Solution to Conflicting Institutional Logics in the Entrepreneurship Process? In P. Teirlinck, S. Kelchtermans, ... F. de Beule (Eds.), The Proceedings of the 8th European Conference on Innovation and Entrepreneurship ECIE 2013 (pp. 715-722). Reading, United Kingdom: Academic Conferences and Publishing International Limited.
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Dufays, F. (2013). Book review: Fair trade organizations and social enterprise: Social innovation through hybrid organization models. Social Enterprise Journal, 9 (1), 123-124.
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Dufays, F. (2006). Les Rußlanddeutschen, des immigrés privilégiés en voie de banalisation: Le cas du marché du travail [Specialised master, Institut d'Etudes Politiques]. ORBi-University of Liège. https://orbi.uliege.be/handle/2268/148638

Dufays, F. (2005). The effect of culture on businesses' perception of CSR [Master’s dissertation, UM - Universiteit Maastricht]. ORBi-University of Liège. https://orbi.uliege.be/handle/2268/148637

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