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The life of Catherine Tekakwitha, which is narrated here, serves as background to a discussion of the sociocultural context and change which took place between Indian and White populations at the end of the XVIIth century in New France.
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Through the longitudinal case study of the French startup 1083 which manufactures and sells jeans and shoes “Made in France” and which adopted an effectual logic during its creation, we seek to answer the following question: how can the crowdsourcing impact an effectual process of creating and developing a business? For that, we first define the motivations of the crowdsourcing during the creation stage, then during the development of the company, but also we analyze the consequences of crowdsourcing on the company's management. We identify two new reasons that motivated the company for crowdsourcing: consumer education and the influence the company can have on its partners. We also show that there is a close link between the effectual logic of creating and developing a business and crowdsourcing. On the one hand, these two phenomena reinforce each other and on the other hand, the process of carrying out imposes a coconstruction of the entrepreneurial project with several stakeholders. We also find that, even if the crowd participates in the creation of value for the company, the consequences of its involvement can become binding for the manager.
Keywords: Appel à la foule, Effectuation, PME, Crowdsourcing, Effectuation, SME, Participación colectiva, Efectuación, PyME
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In support of a comprehensive qualitative and longitudinal study, our article focuses on the partnership strategies put in place by the crowdfunding platforms (PF) with different actors in the ecosystem of entrepreneurial finance. We seek to describe and understand the extent to which they these partnerships little studied in the literature bring real value to enterprises in search of funding. On the theoretical level, we borrow the contributions of the agency theory enriched by the concepts of business ecosystem and two-sided market. Our empirical material focuses on thirty-eight semi-structured interviews conducted with managers of platforms, actors in the financial ecosystem and entrepreneurial support that includes both private and public actors, isolated territorial actors or anchored in a national network. Our results highlight three types of partnerships referring to various logics: logics of efficiency, expertise and trusted third parties or business networks. For the platforms, these partnerships respond both to a quest for legitimacy, animation of a territory and efficiency. However, our study suggests mixed results with regard to their scope at the level of enterprises: the expected network externalities are not always realized, suggesting some obstacles in the implementation of the partnership strategies, which limits the expected benefits for small and medium-sized enterprises.
Keywords: Financement participatif, Foule, Finance entrepreneuriale, Accompagnement entrepreneurial, Plateformes bifaces, Écosystème d'affaires, Crowdfunding, Crowd, Entrepreneurial finance, Entrepreneurial support, Two-sided platform, Business ecosystem, Financiación participativa, Multitud, Finanza empresariale, Coaching empresarial, Plataformas de dos caras, Ecosistema empresarial
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The status of Scop is based on a participatory employee model and a strong anchoring to local community. This paper seeks to understand how Scop position themselves relative to the field of social entrepreneurship. This work builds on a series of 15 semi-structured interviews conducted with founders and leaders of Scop from the West region of France. The main results of this study highlight the importance given to a long term view of the firm and to the prominence given to employees. It appears that the social entrepreneurship dimension of these companies emerges mainly from internal operations. Thus, our study sheds new light on the concept of “social value” as described by the model of social entrepreneurship (Austin, Stevenson and Wei-Skilern, 2006). Secondly, with regard to their mission and their measure of performance, the Scop does not appear as a homogeneous model of social entrepreneurship but reveals instead three types of profiles : hybrid, social and commercial. Our empirical study of Scop confirms that the concept of social entrepreneurship does not distinguish itself from classical or commercial entrepreneurship in a binary fashion but that instead the two notions are part of a continuum (Peredo and McLean, 2006).
Keywords: Entrepreneuriat social, Sociétés coopératives et participatives
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The objective of the article is to understand how a happiness engineering device centered on knowledge-relationship allows for « transformational training ». The methodology is based on a survey of semi-structured interviews and on a thematic content analysis of the dissertations. It was conducted with CPE trainees and teacher trainees in the Prevention-Health-Environment course. The results analyze the types of knowledge-relations in the realization of the experimental device by the trainees and the formative dimensions associated with learning in such an engineering.
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