Maria Rita Micheli is Assistant Professor of Strategy at IESEG School of Management in Paris. She completed her PhD in 2015 at Rotterdam School of Management – Erasmus University, in the Department of Strategic Management & Entrepreneurship. She has been a visiting pre – doctoral research fellow at Kellogg School of Management – Northwestern University in 2013, in the Department of Management and Organizations and at the Northwestern Institute for Complex Systems (NICO). Her research revolves around social networks, business model innovation, knowledge sharing and attention – based view.