ALL FOR ONE AND ONE FOR ALL? TOWARDS A COLLECTIVE VIEW OF ENTREPRENEURIAL PERSISTENCE

Bérangère Deschamps (), Romain Slitine and Laetitia Gabay Mariani
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Bérangère Deschamps: CERAG - Centre d'études et de recherches appliquées à la gestion - UGA - Université Grenoble Alpes
Romain Slitine: IAE Paris - Sorbonne Business School
Laetitia Gabay Mariani: Kedge BS - Kedge Business School

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Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to shed light on the collective dynamics of commitment that underlie the survival of social ventures. We argue that the traditional individual/project nexus – associating business survival to individual persistenceis insufficient to account for the complexity of social entrepreneurship. Instead, we propose the concept of ‘collective persistence' which emerges from the interaction of founders' commitment profiles as they combine and evolve over time. Through a qualitative longitudinal study conducted on two emerging social ventures, we show that this collective persistence is shaped by the interplay between individual dynamics of commitment and decommitment, as well as by four collective dynamics of commitment: contagion, dilution, resonance, and transfer. Our research contributes to both social entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial persistence literature by offering a more nuanced and collective perspective on the development of new social venture facing precarious conditions.

Keywords: social entrepreneurship; persistence (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024-06-03
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Published in BCERC - Babson College Entrepreneurship Research Conference, Jun 2024, Munich (Allemagne), Germany

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