L’héritier, l’ancien ouvrier et la reconvertie: analyse des différents types de logiques entrepreneuriales parmi les artisans d’art

Anne Jourdain

Revue de l'Entrepreneuriat, 2016, vol. 15, issue 3, 257-281

Abstract: Based on a quantitative and qualitative survey on « artist-craftsmen » business owners (ceramists, cabinetmakers, glass-makers...), this article presents a typology with three groups: the elite artisan, who inherited a family business on a niche market, the traditional maker, who launched his own business after his employment as a manual worker, and the creator, who gave up a previous executive job at the age of 35-40 in order to become an independent artist-crafts(wo)man. Beyond arts and crafts, this typology enlightens distinct ways to perceive business and different ways to make economic profits among small business owners. In a sociological perspective, these different entrepreneurial logics are explained by social characteristics and career paths but are also related to macrosociological and economical evolutions across all business sectors.

Keywords: arts and crafts; entrepreneurship; profit; small business; typology (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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