Integrating Corporate Social Responsibility at the Start-up Level: Constraint or Catalyst for Opportunity Identification?

Available on line : http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/ibr.v5n7p17International audienceThis conceptual paper examines the issue of integrating CSR at the start-up level with the aim of increasing the firm's ability to identify new opportunities. Both a constraint and an occasion to strengthen the company's legitimacy and competitive advantage, CSR principles and practices are a key vehicle for opportunity identification and implementation. Historically, SMEs have contributed significantly to the improvement of existing products and services, and the creation of new ones. Grounding CSR in the strategy of enterprises at the start-up level is increasingly examined as an effective management tool with multiple benefits for opportunity identification. CSR may be promoted as a means of nurturing creativity and innovation at the start-up level and beyond, through pushing entrepreneurs to imagine new business models, to discover new raw materials, as well as to create new products and services so as to respond to both economic and social expectations

Towards a communication perspective on entrepreneurship: (Potential) Entrepreneurs as targets and sources of persuasive communications

Our research topics deal with communication and persuasion issues related to entrepreneurship. We thus decided to organize our research presentation in two main chapters, the first dedicated to potential and confirmed entrepreneurs as targets of persuasive attempts generated by media (press discourse) and interpersonal (entrepreneurial support and education) sources, the second dedicated to potential and confirmed entrepreneurs as sources of persuasive interpersonal communications directed towards various stakeholders such as business angels, clients, or employees in the context of pitch presentations, business model elaboration and team leadership. A third chapter is dedicated to current and future research projects

Achieving legitimacy in entrepreneurship education: a case study

Available on the publisher's website: http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/S0218495812500203 [copyright World Scientific Publishing Company]International audienceThis paper examines the legitimating process of a French higher education institution entirely dedicated to entrepreneurship. Management and entrepreneurship education strive both for academic and market legitimacies. We think entrepreneurship education is confronted with an additional challenge: building political legitimacy. We analyze the "extreme case" study of Advancia, a Paris business school. We examined the business school's legitimation process over a period of six years, from 2004 to 2010. This "extreme case" may be informative for other business schools willing to reach academic, market and political legitimacies while at the same time trying to develop a coherent and stable global strategy in a competitive higher education landscape. This is the first article dealing with the topic of legitimacy acquisition processes, with the aim of emphasizing the institutionalization of entrepreneurial mindset in French entrepreneurship higher education

Can less be more? Mentoring functions, learning goal orientation, and novice entrepreneurs' self-efficacy

Purpose: One of the main goals of entrepreneurial mentoring programs is to strengthen the mentee's self-efficacy. However, the conditions in which entrepreneurial self-efficacy (ESE) is developed through mentoring are not yet fully explored. The purpose of this paper is to test the combined effects of mentee’s learning goal orientation (LGO) and perceived similarity with the mentor and demonstrates the role of these two variables in mentoring relationships. Design/methodology/approach: The current study is based on a sample of 360 novice Canadian entrepreneurs who completed an online questionnaire. The authors used a cross-sectional analysis as research design. Findings: Findings indicate that the development of ESE is optimal when mentees present low levels of LGO and perceive high similarities between their mentor and themselves. Mentees with high LGO decreased their level of ESE with more in-depth mentoring received. Research limitations/implications: This study investigated a formal mentoring program with volunteer (unpaid) mentors. Generalization to informal mentoring relationships needs to be tested. Practical implications: The study shows that, in order to effectively develop self-efficacy in a mentoring situation, LGO should be taken into account. Mentors can be trained to modify mentees’ LGO to increase their impact on this mindset and mentees’ ESE. Originality/value: This is the first empirical study that demonstrates the effects of mentoring on ESE and reveals a triple moderating effect of LGO and perceived similarity in mentoring relationships. © 2018, © Emerald Publishing Limited

Modèle " de la poubelle " et dynamique du business model

National audienceLe business model est un outil clé de la démarche de légitimation , de création de valeur et de la performance des jeunes entreprises. Lors de son élaboration en situation d'accompagnement, on constate que les entrepreneurs choisissent certaines alternatives relatives aux différentes composantes du business model et à leur articulation, tout en en écartant d'autres. L'impossibilité objective de retenir l'ensemble des alternatives possibles conduit inévitablement à des choix non-optimaux d'un point de vue purement rationnel. " Mettre à la poubelle " des options sans les étudier ou les tester systématiquement semble inévitable. Que se passe-t-il avec les alternatives écartées ? Sont-elles rejetées définitivement ou seulement mises de côté et conservées pour une introduction ultérieure, lors de la phase de développement ? Et quel est le rôle de l'accompagnateur dans l'élaboration et l'évolution du business model ? Afin d'explorer les processus d'élaboration et d'évolution du business model en situation d'accompagnement, nous nous inspirons du " modèle de la poubelle " ou Garbage Can Model (GCM) de Cohen, March et Olsen (1972) . Cet article repose sur une série d'entretiens semi-directifs avec les trois entrepreneurs et leur accompagnateur, ainsi que sur l'analyse des business models de lancement et de développement

Entrepreneuring as emancipation in family business succession: a story of agony and ecstasy

Following Alistair Anderson’s legacy of entrepreneuring as a process of becoming, this paper engages with entrepreneuring as emancipation in a family business context. Over a period of seven years, we witnessed the journey of a family business successor engaged in a challenging process of power transfer, ultimately leading him to leave the succession process to engage with entrepreneuring outside the family business, due to power struggles. We theoretically elaborate on this realtime, multi-informant, multi-generational and longitudinal single-case study to offer a novel understanding of entrepreneuring as emancipation from and through power by revealing the intimate connections of entrepreneuring with power, liberation and liberty encompassing as much agony as ecstasy

A multi-voiced account of family entrepreneuring research: expanding the agenda of family entrepreneurship

Purpose This conceptual, multi-voiced paper aims to collectively explore and theorize family entrepreneuring, which is a research stream dedicated to investigating the emergence and becoming of entrepreneurial phenomena in business families and family firms. Design/methodology/approach Because of the novelty of this research stream, the authors asked 20 scholars in entrepreneurship and family business to reflect on topics, methods and issues that should be addressed to move this field forward. Findings Authors highlight key challenges and point to new research directions for understanding family entrepreneuring in relation to issues such as agency, processualism and context. Originality/value This study offers a compilation of multiple perspectives and leverage recent developments in the fields of entrepreneurship and family business to advance research on family entrepreneuring

A multi-voiced account of family entrepreneuring research : expanding the agenda of family entrepreneurship

Purpose This conceptual, multi-voiced paper aims to collectively explore and theorize family entrepreneuring, which is a research stream dedicated to investigating the emergence and becoming of entrepreneurial phenomena in business families and family firms. Design/methodology/approach Because of the novelty of this research stream, the authors asked 20 scholars in entrepreneurship and family business to reflect on topics, methods and issues that should be addressed to move this field forward. Findings Authors highlight key challenges and point to new research directions for understanding family entrepreneuring in relation to issues such as agency, processualism and context. Originality/value This study offers a compilation of multiple perspectives and leverage recent developments in the fields of entrepreneurship and family business to advance research on family entrepreneuring

2012 : fin du monde ou renouveau de l'entrepreneuriat ?

Les perspectives ne sont pas glorieuses : un monde en crise, avec des taux de croissance revus à la baisse en Europe, de la pauvreté accrue pour les classes moyennes qui protestent, des citoyens de pays sous dictature qui sont tués alors qu'ils crient leur droit à la liberté. Un monde en mutation, un monde qui souhaite le changement sans savoir très bien sous quel nom l'appeler. Un nouveau monde vert ? Un nouveau monde solidaire ? Un nouveau monde plus équitable ? Un nouveau monde plus innovant ? Les paris du futur sont ouverts et à la roulette des projets en présence on veut tous jouer. Pour aller où...