Managing a P.M.E.: an impossible anticipation?

Diriger une P.M.E.: une anticipation impossible ?

Benoît Raveleau ()
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Benoît Raveleau: GRANEM - Groupe de Recherche Angevin en Economie et Management - UA - Université d'Angers - AGROCAMPUS OUEST - Institut National de l'Horticulture et du Paysage

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Abstract: The first part of this article reports on the main results of a study devoted to the way in which twelve SME managers manage their time. We observe very monopolized leaders there and responding to emergencies while exploiting perceived opportunities; their activity is not only divided into short episodes, but weakly anticipated. The second part allows us to get out of an objectifying approach and to consider interpretative reflections which are certainly more speculative but which provide a certain density to the analysis. We discover that leaders are not only strategists but also "manufacturers of meaning" (Mispelblom-Beyer, 2006). This is where the visionary leader plays his role. It indicates a course, a horizon towards which to tend. The last part addresses, in the form of questions, the questions posed by the implementation of an anticipatory education for SME managers.

Keywords: anticipation; entrepreneur (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008-09-01
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Published in Éducation permanente, 2008, Peut-on (ré)apprendre à anticiper ?, 3 (176), pp.97-118

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