Formal entrepreneurial networks as communities of practice: a longitudinal case study

Vincent Lefebvre (), Miruna Radu Lefebvre () and Eric Simon ()
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Vincent Lefebvre: Audencia Recherche - Audencia Business School
Miruna Radu Lefebvre: Audencia Recherche - Audencia Business School
Eric Simon: ISC Paris - Institut Supérieur du Commerce de Paris

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Abstract: This article argues that entrepreneurial learning is genuinely connected to entrepreneurial networking activities, within a co-evolving dynamics. We take a longitudinal network approach to study the combined development of network dynamics and learning in a French formal entrepreneurial network over a period of four years (2005-2009). Our aim is to extend our knowledge of entrepreneurial learning emphasised both as a process and an outcome of social interaction, by focussing on the interplay between network evolution and the changing learning needs of participants over time. Building on a situated social perspective of entrepreneurial learning, we demonstrate that network learning processes and outcomes are contingent on the progressive network transformation from a social network to a community of practice.

Keywords: Formal entrepreneurial network; Learning; Community of practice (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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Published in Entrepreneurship and Regional Development, 2015, 27 (7-8), pp.500-525. ⟨10.1080/08985626.2015.1070539⟩

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DOI: 10.1080/08985626.2015.1070539

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