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Ce projet de recherche vise à explorer et à analyser la complémentarité entre les disciplines de l’aménagement et celles de l’artisanat au Québec, en mettant en lumière les intérêts et les opportunités pour les métiers de l’artisanat à se positionner comme un champ d’études à part entière. En effet, le Québec possède une riche tradition des pratiques en artisanat, dispersées à travers différents secteurs de l’économie. Toutefois, ces métiers et leurs pratiques spécifiques ne disposent pas de leur propre champ d’études au sein des milieux académiques francophones québécois. Dans ces milieux, ils demeurent méconnus, peu documentés et rarement étudiés par les artisans eux-mêmes. Ce constat permet d’aborder le sujet avec un angle qui propose une réflexion sur la hiérarchie des savoirs à l’université, et qui …
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The role of villages and their growth in the economy of Lower Canada are still little understood. Basing his research upon the trades and professions recorded in the nominative censuses of 1825, 1831 and 1851-1852, the author analyses the development of twenty villages located in northern Montréal and summarizes his findings.
Keywords: Villages, seigneurie, histoire, Bas-Canada, Villages, seigneurie, history, Lower Canada
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Students in an Education Faculty discuss their work experiences and their hopes for the future as well as the lifestyles that are inherent in a situation of job insecurity. The article concludes with their reflexions on the role of their studies in a situation when jobs do not exist.
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Entrepreneurial microcredit is now considered essential to support economic and social development. It is also one of the development objectives of banks in terms of social responsibility to the extent that its purpose is to allow a greater number of entrepreneurs - especially the impoverished - to achieve their professional ambitions. While many studies have focused on the microcredit offer and its key success factors in emerging countries, fewer have studied the context of the so called developed economies, particularly concerning the microcredit applicant profile in terms of motivations, needs and journey. Following Guichandut (2006), this paper intends to contribute to a better understanding of microcredit's actors by proposing a typology of micro entrepreneurs' journeys, based on a qualitative study conducted in France. The study reveals that despite a large heterogeneity of the profiles, the different paths can be identified based on the applicant's motivation for borrowing as well as their clear-sightedness about the economic and human implications of the project. The combination of these two dimensions resulted in seven types of path: ("passion path," "utopian passion path", "independence path", "of step independence path," "springboard path," "of step springboard path", and "rebound path"). The proposed typology represents a necessary preliminary step to better understand the demand for microcredit, risk factors and project support needs.
Keywords: Microcrédit entrepreneurial, porteurs de projet, accompagnement, motivation, lucidité, Entrepreneurial microcredit, micro entrepreneurs, support, motivation, clear-sightedness, Microcrédito empresarial, emprendedores, asesoramiento, motivación, realismo
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Growth is a central theme of research in entrepreneurship and business strategy. Yet if a large number of studies exist on the growth of SMEs, high growth firms or startup, research on very small businesses, and particularly craft businesses is lacking. However we can legitimately think that the smaller level of resources and competences of those firms and their greater focus on the technical part of the business strongly color their choice of growth and require specific research. In this context, the objective of this article is to shed light on the growth strategies actually implemented by craft firms and the causes for their adoption. Based on eleven case studies, results show that growth strategies are much more varied than the literature suggests. They also highlight the influence of the leader profil on the choice of growth strategies.
Keywords: Entreprise artisanale, Croissance, Diversification, Acquisition, Profil du dirigeant, Craft firms, Growth, Diversification, Acquisition, Leader profile, Sector artesanal, Crecimiento, Diversificación, Adquisición, Características del líder
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This article explores the effects of cultural interactions on Maliseet way of life during the colonization era, with a focus on the Malécites of Viger (Québec). The paradigm of indigenisation, developed by anthropologist Marshall Sahlins, will be instrumental in understanding Maliseet past and present reaction to Euro-Canadian presence on their land. Contact eventually altered their traditions but did not result in the disappearance of this cultural group from the Québec province. Although the Malécites of Viger go somehow pass unnoticed for being allegedly « acculturated » and hit by the forces of global and homogenizing modernity, their history is particularly striking ; at every step of their history, they have been able to face incoming foreign realities by relying on the vitality of their culture
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This article questions the place of religion in communication and consumption strategies. It will be a question of accounting for the gap (mainly on websites) between religious, sacred or spiritual discourses for commercial purposes by monastic brands and actors, and the same types of discourse by non-monastic merchants. The semiotic analysis of three beers with different “degrees of religiosity” illustrates the reflection.
Keywords: stratégies communicationnelles, marketing monastique, sacré, religieux, identité, existence, communication strategy, monastic marketing, sacred, religious, identity, existence
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Stemming from a long tradition of mutual aid and social solidarity, social finance in Bulgaria arose from particular political and economic conditions. Cooperative banking played a pivotal role in the establishment of Bulgaria’s financial and economic system between the two world wars (1919-1938). This article examines the rapid growth of cooperative banks and their impact on the economy in the inter-war period. In the early 1930s, cooperative banks became the most developed form of cooperatives in Bulgaria, particularly in towns.
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Urban Event Tourism, also a Resource for Inhabitants. The Case of the Champs-Élysées Christmas Market. Increasingly, events are used by cities to attract tourists and encourage them to return. Their expenses allow inducing an economic dynamic that can benefit residents. Moreover, residents sometimes participate in the organization of these events. The purpose of this article is to show that if urban event tourism is a resource for tourism, it is also a resource for the residential system, making them mutually complementary. The analysis is illustrated by a survey conducted on the Champs-Élysées Christmas Market from December 7, 2015, to January 10, 2016. A total of 800 questionnaires were collected. Their analysis shows the significant presence of Île-de-France residents compared to international tourists and excursionists, in a period marked by terrorism. The analysis nevertheless highlights that motivations and practices relative to expenses are different, but complementary. It can thus be concluded that urban events cannot be conceived exclusively neither for tourists nor for residents.