L'influence de la créativité sur la vigilance entrepreneuriale des repreneurs de PME

Dorian Boumedjaoud and Karim Messeghem ()
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Dorian Boumedjaoud: MRM - Montpellier Research in Management - UPVM - Université Paul-Valéry - Montpellier 3 - UPVD - Université de Perpignan Via Domitia - Groupe Sup de Co Montpellier (GSCM) - Montpellier Business School - UM - Université de Montpellier, Labex Entreprendre - UM - Université de Montpellier
Karim Messeghem: MRM - Montpellier Research in Management - UPVM - Université Paul-Valéry - Montpellier 3 - UPVD - Université de Perpignan Via Domitia - Groupe Sup de Co Montpellier (GSCM) - Montpellier Business School - UM - Université de Montpellier, Labex Entreprendre - UM - Université de Montpellier

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Abstract: Business takeovers can be divided into three steps (Deschamps, 2002): decision to takeover an SME, takeover process and entry into the SME. After entering the company, the buyer has to build his entrepreneurial strategy to identify new business opportunities, and thus maintain or even develop the growth of his company. Since the works of Shane and Venkataraman (2000), opportunity identification became central in entrepreneurship-with the emergence of a specific cognitive stream on entrepreneurial alertness. The antecedents of alertness are still little known among SME buyers, but works show that the creative process of entrepreneurs can influence the ability to associate and connect information-a dimension of alertness according to Tang et al. (2012)-and more broadly entrepreneurial alertness. Our aim is to show that creativity influences the three dimensions of entrepreneurial alertness according to Tang et al. (2012), and that the relationship between creativity and the association and connection dimension is stronger. To answer these questions, we use a sample of 360 SME buyers, most of them supported by Réseau Entreprendre, and proceed to a modeling in structural equations. The results show that creativity significantly influence the three dimensions of entrepreneurial alertness. This result underline the role of creative process in opportunities identification, and more broadly the interest of cognitive support.

Date: 2019
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Published in Académie de l'Entrepreneuriat et de l'Innovation, 2019, Montpellier, France

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