Bérangère Deschamps is Professor in Management at Grenoble Alpes University and Researcher at CERAG. In 2014, she was awarded the HDR certification for research supervision in the field of business transfers.
She leads the management sciences laboratory of Grenoble Alps University, which counts 150 members. She is in charge of the mission of developing entrepreneurship in IUT2.
She is the author of about twenty articles in scientific journals and about fifteen book chapters. In 2000, her PhD dissertation examined a specific type of transfer: the external take over process in a purchased company. She is the author, with Robert Paturel, of the publication Reprendre une entreprise saine ou en difficultés [Taking over a company, whether functioning or facing difficulties], Dunod editions (2001, 2005, 2009).
In 2011, she coordinated a book with Louise Cadieux, collecting the transferor and the transferee’s views of on each step of the transfer process: Le duo cédant-repreneur, pour une compréhension intégrée de la transmission-reprise des PME [The seller-buyer duet, towards a comprehensive understanding of transfers and acquisitions of SMEs], published by the University of Quebec Press.
Since 2010, she has collaborated with Luis Cisnéros of HEC Montreal on family transfers among siblings. With Didier Chabaud, she has created a research group on business transfer bringing together around 40 European researchers. She co-ordinated “Business Transfers, Entrepreneurship and Family Firms” published by Routledge – Taylor and Francis in 2021.
Board member of AEI and AIREPME (two international research associations in entrepreneurship and SMEs), she also serves as a referee for 7 professional journals and is on the scientific committee of the RIPME (international journal for research on SMEs).
She has been editor in chief of the Revue de l’Entrepreneuriat/review of Entrepreneuship from 2020 to 2023 and is now associate editor.