Publications

Transforming knowledge into strategic action.

Publications, conference papers and working papers.

:Google Scholar Profile of Louis Rhéaume, PhD
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=B1eQh_8AAAAJ&hl=en

-Corporate finance and strategy management:

  • Report- training for angels investors investing in private equity in SMEs By: Louis Rhéaume, Senior Partner, Infocom Intelligence; Teacher, Télé-Université (TELUQ), 42 pages, see Table of content. Available online as a PDF for $95. (We accept credit cards and paypal payments).

-Technology management:

  • The technologies and strategies behind new mobile services: Profile of the Canadian industry.  [Nature of mobile technologies, evolution of the industry.] By: Louis Rhéaume, Senior Partner, Infocom Intelligence, 2007, 75 pages, See table of content.  Available online as a PDF for $75. (We accept credit cards and paypal payments).

-Strategy management:

  • Louis Rhéaume and Yves Rabeau, 2012, “Rethinking North American telephony business models in the age of turbulence” , Chapter of a book, Nova Science Publishers. Available online

Abstract:

Since the mid-90’s the telecom industry went into a period of sustained disruptive innovations which combined with deregulation led to a lot of turbulence and a sometimes difficult redefinition of business models. A true Schumpeterian wave of innovation enhanced by competition leads to creation of wealth as an unprecedented investment boom occurred in telecommunications sustained by overly optimistic and sometimes fraudulent forecasts of Internet traffic. But it also led to wealth destruction when the financial bubble ended in a stock markets crash in 2000, whereas several telecom companies went bust weakened by debts, substantial overcapacity and a loss of market power. It then became clear that traffic growth did not translate necessarily into revenue growth. As overcapacity eased in the 2000’s and telecom companies painfully restructured, the wave of innovation went on. Particularly, VoIP definitely made long-distance wireline service and dial-up ISP commodities. The telephony industry is moving from a transport sector toward a service sector as information technologies are at the heart of all business models in the world economy

  • Bitar, Jad (2004) “Contingency View of Dynamic Capabilities” Cahier de recherches, Chaire Walter Sommers de Management Stratégique.
  • Bitar, Jad (2004) “Strategy in turbulent environment: continuous innovation and generic dynamic capabilities” Cahier de recherches, Chaire Walter Sommers de Management Stratégique.
  • Bitar, Jad (2004) “The Emergence of Centraide in the Greater Montreal Area: A Case of Radical Social Innovation” Cahier de recherches, Chaire Walter Sommers de Management Stratégique.
  • Virginia Bodolica, Martin Spraggon et Jean-Pierre Dupuis (2005). ” Travailler chez Masha&Dasha International Inc. en banlieue de Montréal “. (Soumis à la Revue international de cas en gestion, octobre 2005)
  • Louis Rhéaume, Harjeet S. Bhabra, Value creation in information-based industries through convergence: A study of U.S. mergers and acquisitions between 1993 and 2005, Available online 29 May 2008, Information & Management.

Abstract : According to the International Engineering Consortium (IEC), the realignment and consolidations currently underway in information-based industries is likely to result in the five traditional information industries (photography, publishing, computing, telecommunications and entertainment) converging into three new sectors: information content providers, information highways, and information appliances. We investigated the impact of mergers and acquisitions on value creation both within and across these sectors by estimating the stock market’s response to acquiring firms around the announcement date of their merger. Using data on 2421 mergers and acquisitions between 1993 and 2005 and employing the well-established event study methodology, we found that most acquirers received a target within the same sector or industry and that the related acquisition strategies brought synergistic gains resulting in positive wealth change for the acquiring firm’s shareholders. The few firms that pursued an unrelated diversification strategy that lowered operating risk experienced no significant change in shareholder wealth. Our results contrasted with the zero or negative wealth change found for acquiring firms in general (as reported in the finance literature) but were consistent with the positive wealth change for acquirers in the telecommunications industry found in recent studies.

  • Louis Rhéaume , Value creation in evolving information industries: the effects of US mergers, June 2000, M.Sc thesis
  •  Louis Rhéaume, The effects of information technology in the management of organizational change, December 1998, Working paper
  • Louis Rhéaume, Review of literature in strategic portfolio management of innovation projects, September 2004

Others book chapter:

  • Bitar, Jad (2005) “Value creation through Innovation – A Resource Based View” in Grandval and Soparnot eds., Hermès Science
  • Bitar, Jad (2005) forthcoming “Operational Innovation: Leveraging Generic Dynamic Capabilities” in Soparnot et al.
  • Martin Spraggon et Virginia Bodolica (2005). “Étude exploratoire et comparative de trois entreprises opérant dans des industries différentes : une approche structuraliste du changement technologique “. (Soumis à la Revue canadienne des sciences de l¹administration, août 2005)

E-learning and corporate universities:

  • Louis Rhéaume et Jean-Michel Viola, Printemps 2005, Faut-il investir dans une université corporative? Revue Gestion

Exportations:

  • Virginia Bodolica et Martin Spraggon (2005) “Le rôle de la taille de l’entreprise en matière d’exportation : le cas des PME exportatrices moldaves”. (Soumis à la Revue Gestion, septembre 2005)

Conference papers:

  • Bitar, Jad (2005) “What are capabilities and where do they come from?” AOM 2005, Hawai’i
  • Bitar, Jad (2005) “Towards an understanding of elusive organizational phenomena: organizations as complex adaptive systems”, ASAC 2005, Toronto
  • Bitar, Jad (2004) ” Le développement de capacités dynamiques: comment dans l’industrie des logiciels de masse les idées dominantes et les normes façonnent l’émergence d’un pattern de capacité dynamique “, 13ieme conférence de l’Association Internationale de Management Stratégique
  • Bitar, Jad (2004) “Thinking around Strategic Games” presented at the Walter Sommers Chair of Strategic Management, HEC Montreal
  • Bitar, Jad (2003) “Strategy in turbulent environments: the concept of Dynamic Capabilities”, presented at MINE Program, Ecole Polytechnique
  • Bitar, Jad (2003) “Continuous innovation in turbulent environments: the concept of Generic Dynamic Capabilities” presented at the 2003 Doctoral Working Paper Series, Concordia University
  • Bitar, Jad (2000) “Facilitating Structural and Cultural Change using IT in Health Care Organizations”. The First Arab Conference on “Healthcare Management Present & Future Challenges”, Lebanon.