Abstracts
Résumé
La plupart des travaux qui ont étudié l’impact des chocs externes sur l’entrepreneuriat ont focalisé sur l’action entrepreneuriale au sein d’entreprises existantes et non dans les entreprises en création. Ils ne se sont pas non plus intéressés à la succession de chocs externes. Comment les créateurs font-ils face à l’incertitude liée à une succession de chocs externes ? En renforçant la planification, la frugalité ou le soutien émotionnel, triptyque proposé par Giones et al. (2020) ? Nous avons interrogé dix créateurs ayant créé leur entreprise quand se combinaient les confinements de la Covid-19, le démarrage de la guerre en Ukraine et l’urgence climatique. Les résultats indiquent qu’ils ont transformé les chocs externes en opportunités en mobilisant frugalité et soutien émotionnel pour surmonter l’incertitude liée aux crises.
Mots-clés :
- Création d’entreprise,
- Choc externe,
- Incertitude,
- Action entrepreneuriale,
- Covid-19,
- Guerre,
- Urgence climatique,
- Succession de chocs
Abstract
Most works studying the impact of external shocks on entrepreneurship focus on the entrepreneurial action in existing firms, and not in new ventures. Nor have they studied the succession of external shocks. In troubled times, how do entrepreneurs overcome uncertainty? Do new venture creators reinforce planning, frugality and/or emotional support (Giones et al., 2020)? We interviewed ten entrepreneurs who nevertheless decide to create a new venture during the Covid-19 lockdowns, the outbreak of war in Ukraine and climate emergency. The results show that they turned external shocks into opportunities by combining frugality and emotional support to overcome uncertainty.
Keywords:
- New venture creation,
- External shock,
- Uncertainty,
- Entrepreneurial action,
- Covid-19,
- War,
- Climate urgency,
- Shock succession
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