HANDICAP À LA NOUVEAUTÉ ET SENIORS

Fabienne Bornard () and Cécile Fonrouge ()
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Fabienne Bornard: CRE - Commission de Régulation de l'Energie - EM Lyon - EM - EMLyon Business School
Cécile Fonrouge: IRG - Institut de Recherche en Gestion - UPEM - Université Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée - UPEC UP12 - Université Paris-Est Créteil Val-de-Marne - Paris 12

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Abstract: Is aging an asset when creating a new business ? The senior entrepreneur is indeed an entrepreneur as another, but the question is to know if he manages better with organizational newness. The concept of « liability of newness » is applied to understand the place of organizational experience on two business cases. An analytical framework is proposed that shows how the previous experience on supporting activities allows adaptation and legitimacy. Contingencies factors such as size or competitive environment have to be taken into account. Finally specific proposals are made about seniors and networking, time pressure, previous organizational routines showing that these factors enable them, better than younger entrepreneurs, to overcome the liability of newness

Keywords: senior; entrepreneur; handicap à la nouveauté (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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Published in Revue Française de Gestion, 2012, 227, pp.111-125. ⟨10.3166/RFG.227.111-125⟩

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DOI: 10.3166/RFG.227.111-125

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