MBS School of business

DEN BESTEN Matthijs

DEN BESTEN Matthijs
Position Assistant Professor
Academic department Operations, Information, & Decisions
Contact m.denbesten@mbs-education.com
Short Bio

Dr. Matthijs den Besten, assistant professor at Montpellier Business School, arrived in January 2012. Since 2010 he has been involved as teacher and tutor in a master’s degree program on Innovation, Regulation and the Digital Economy organized by a coalition of Universities in and around Paris. Matthijs holds a doctorate in Computer Science (2004: Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany). In the course of the post-doctoral fellowships that he has occupied since, Matthijs has sought to bring to bear his expertise in information and communication technologies to the study of society at large.  His research is published in a wide range of academic journals including, but not limited to, Information Economics and Policy,  the Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation, the Journal of Documentation, and Small Business Economics.

Selected intellectual contributions

DALLE, J. M., M. DEN BESTEN, J. MORFIN, "Accelerator-mediated Access to Investors among Early-stage Start-ups.", Annals of Operations Research, May 2025, vol. 348, no. May 2025, pp. 1925-1952

DEN BESTEN, M., C. AMRIT, A. CAPILUPPI, G. ROBLES, "Collaboration and innovation dynamics in software ecosystems: A technology management research perspective.", IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, August 2021, vol. 68, no. 5, pp. 1532-1537

EL SHOUBAKI, A., I. LAGUIR, M. DEN BESTEN, "Human capital and SME growth: The mediating role of reasons to start a business.", Small Business Economics, November 2020, vol. 54, no. 4, pp. 1107-1121

DEN BESTEN, M., C. AMRIT - "The adoption of IPv6 and bluetooth among software developers: Findings from the Gentoo Linux Distribution. Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics (SASE), July 18-20, Amsterdam, The Netherlands." - 2020, Amsterdam, Netherlands

LIN, Y., M. DEN BESTEN, "Gendered work culture in the free/libre Open Source Software development.", Gender, Work and Organization, February 2019, vol. 26, no. 7, pp. 1017-1031

DEN BESTEN, M., I. LAGUIR - "Innovation, Competition & Contingent Work. International Conference Innovation Management, Entrepreneurship and Sustainability (IMES), May 30-31, Prague, Czech Republic." - 2019, Prague

DEN BESTEN, M. - "Bank lending to the self-employed: The impact of gender, citizenship and marital Status. Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics, June 23-25, Kyoto, Japan." - 2018, Kyoto, Japan

DEN BESTEN, M. - "Bank lending to solo self-employed consultants: the impact of gender, citizenship and marital status. Global Workshop on Freelancing and Self-Employment Research, April 25-26, London, UK." - 2018, London

DALLE, J. M., M. DEN BESTEN, C. MENON - "Using crunchbase for researchin entrepreneurial finance and beyond. 3rd Abbé Grégoire Innovation Days, April 3-4, Paris, France." - 2018, Paris, France

DEN BESTEN, M., J. M. DALLE, J. MORFIN - "Comparing US accelerators. Big Startup Data Workshop, October 11, Agoranov, Paris, France." - 2017, Paris, France

Research themes

Fintech, Information systems management

Teaching disciplines

Information system

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