Between control over destiny and togetherness: About the ambivalent path of individuals looking for an entrepreneurial autonomy and collective places
(2019) EGOS — Location: Edinburgh (5.July.2019)
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- Through 17 qualitative interviews, we tried to understand the path and the different challenges encountered by entrepreneurs developing their projects in Brussels (Belgium). To analyse our data, we used the notion of “trial” proposed by the sociologist Danilo Martuccelli (2009): “socially produced, unevenly distributed historical challenges that individuals are forced to face”. In that sense, we firstly questioned the main steps of these entrepreneurs’ path and secondly, we reflected on the overtaking strategies that they put in place to face the different challenges encountered. Through that analytical operator of “trials”, we articulated an individual level (experience of entrepreneurs) and a structural level (societal and social aspects). How does the individual construct himself as an entrepreneur with regard to the trials he faced? What are the overtaking strategies he deployed to adapt and overcome the trials? In other words, our approach allows us to question the tension between an individual perspective, valuing a “personal bibliography more and more specific” and a social perspective, considering the individual construction in relation with societal structures. Through a sociological approach, our work discusses the entrepreneurial journey, with an interest in the actors who pass individually from a relationship to another: With regard to the paths of the sociological individual proposed by Martucelli (2005) and more specifically the notion of “trials”, what can we discover about the path of entrepreneurs in Brussels?
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Rchika, T. (2019). Between control over destiny and togetherness: About the ambivalent path of individuals looking for an entrepreneurial autonomy and collective places. EGOS, Edinburgh. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/123739