Des inégalités d’accès aux inégalités de succès: enquête sur les fondateurs et fondatrices de start-up

Marion Flécher

Travail et Emploi, 2019, vol. n° 159, issue 3, 39-68

Abstract: Start-up companies are often portrayed as innovative companies bearing a risky business model and created by young and heroic entrepreneurs. Yet, start-up companies do not correspond to any legal or statistic category and thus find no objective definition. This article aims to fill this gap by shedding light on this object with critical scrutiny. Based on qualitative and quantitative data collected since 2016 among start-up founders, this work analyzes the purported specificities of start-up companies and questions the representations and the myths they are associated with. Do these companies have a greater potential for innovation and growth than traditional firms? Are they created by young and talented “self-made men” and women? This contribution will study start-up creation process through the analysis of the social and economic resources of their founders and show that it tends to reinforce class and gender inequalities. JEL: J16, J62, L23, L26

Keywords: start-up companies; inequality; gender; social success (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J16 J62 L23 L26 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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