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Dr. Line Bonneau's work focuses on time horizons and temporal orientation in business strategy. Trained as a biochemist, Dr. Bonneau earned an MBA and worked as a manager in the pharmaceuticals/diagnostics industry.

Line's interest in the invisible goes beyond biochemistry and includes the topic of temporal dimensions in management. Her thesis, Temporal assumptions and the strategic management of time in Quebec biopharmaceuticals, earned her a PhD in Management at HEC Montréal (Canada) in 2009. Some of her work is part of the research effort to link levels of analysis through the entrainment concept as in Inter-Organisational Time: The Example of Quebec Biotechnology, an article that appeared in the International Journal of Innovation Management. Her work also shows that actors retain discretion even over powerful temporal institutions as argued in her EGOS 2010 paper, Surprising strategizing around temporal institutions in biopharma.

Her thesis led to the definition of a two-dimensional time horizon framework for the strategic management of innovation that gave access to the diversity of strategizing on the part of biopharmaceutical managers in the face of a shifting environment. In addition, her textual method for identifying temporal orientation assumptions renders them graphically visible thereby providing a basis for interaction and discussion amongst scholars and practitioners. Line recently presented a paper on her method, Revealing Time: Making the Invisible Visible at the 2010 Qualitative Research in Management and Organization Conference: Reimagining Method in New Mexico.

Line's interests in innovation in biopharmaceuticals also contributed to the research program "Managing Innovation in the New Economy" (MINE) that focused on various games of innovation defined as configurations of actors, roles and cooperation networks. Her most recent work focuses on strategic tools, more specifically scenario planning. This work will be presented at the First International Strategy as Practice workshop in North America, Talk, text and tools, in Montréal.

Line has taught an undergraduate capstone strategy course at HEC Montréal using business cases, simulation and online forums.