Jean-Michel Degeorge

Is entrepreneurial intention stable through time? First insights from a sample of French students

Currently in France, a high percentage of people over 18 claim that they wish to create a company. The younger they are, the stronger their desire to set up a business. Unfortunately, few of them end up creating a new firm. This research focuses on new business start-up intentions by students who have attended an entrepreneurial awareness course. Our research is based on an empirical study with a sample of people who attended a course in entrepreneurship between 1997 and 2004. Aside from the testing of an intention model (Ajzen, 1991), one of the main objectives of our research is to highlight the entrepreneurial intention level of these people after the course and the stability of this intention over a long period of time. For this exploratory study we used a questionnaire completed by a sample of young graduates in 2004. The data was then analysed. Results are shown and discussed.

The entrepreneurial and innovative orientations of French, German and Dutch engineers : The proposal of an European context based upon some empirical evidence from two studies

In this vital new book, leading international scholars highlight the unique characteristics and rich variety of European research in entrepreneurship. They pursue several different perspectives and focus on the key issues and most significant developments in the field.

Entrepreneurial opportunities: how do cognitive styles and logics of action fit in?

The aim of this qualitative study is to identify how the perceptions of the entrepreneur on the nature of the opportunity (objective reality/social construction) and his/her cognitive style (analytical/intuitive) influence the process of opportunity pursuit (analytic process/intuition-based process). We find that if expected alignments (analysis/causation/objective opportunity versus intuition/effectuation/constructed opportunity) appear, they are not systematic, and that firm industry and position in the sector are determinant.

Entretien : Frédéric Baudouin et Christian You (Entreprendre Loire) : « Notre réseau développe ses actions d’accompagnement de la croissance »

Frederic Baudouin et Christian You sont deux figures majeures de l’accompagnement de la croissance des entreprises dans le departement de la Loire. Ils nous ont aides a aborder sous deux angles complementaires les thematiques de l’accompagnement de la dynamique des jeunes entreprises et du processus de croissance d‘une entreprise innovante, de la PME a l’ETI.