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L'ancrage territorial des créateurs d'entreprises aquitains : entre encastrement relationnel et attachement symbolique

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  • Fabien Reix

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Studies on spatial logics of companies? establishment more often tackle this question in terms of strategic choice of companies seeking to profit from the effects of proximity. This paper proposes to explore territorial determinants of entrepreneurial activity from the point of view of the entrepreneurs rather than from that of the companies. Starting from a research of the biographical trajectories of creators of companies, this study shows that far from limiting itself to a strategic positioning within a competitive market, the choice of the localization of the company is strongly related to social membership of the entrepreneur. By focusing the analysis on the question of the territory, one observes that their entrepreneurial project often reveals a desire to remain or to return in their native place (here, South-West of France). One can then interpret this form of territorial anchoring as deriving from a logic of maximization of the resources resulting from networks of relations founded locally than as a result of subjective logics of symbolic attachment to the territory. © 2008 Lavoisier, Paris. Tous droits réservés.

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  • Fabien Reix, 2008. "L'ancrage territorial des créateurs d'entreprises aquitains : entre encastrement relationnel et attachement symbolique," Géographie, économie, société, Lavoisier, vol. 10(1), pages 29-41.
    • Handle: RePEc:cai:geslav:ges_101_0029
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    1. Sophie BOUTILLIER & Godefroy KIZABA, 2011. "La création de très petites entreprises, territoire et relations sociales. enquête dans la région du Nord-pas de calais (France) CREATION OF VERY SMALL ENTERPRISES, TERRITORY AND SOCIAL RELATIONSHIPS ," Working Papers 244, Laboratoire de Recherche sur l'Industrie et l'Innovation. ULCO / Research Unit on Industry and Innovation.
    2. Bastien Bernela & Olivier Bouba-Olga, 2013. "Le recrutement des universitaires français : de la question du localisme à celle de l'inertie spatiale," Working Papers hal-00821075, HAL.
    3. François Bousquet & Valérie Barbat, 2018. "L'impact de l'ancrage de l'entreprise sur l'engagement des salariés au sein du territoire," Post-Print hal-01894952, HAL.
    4. Sophie Boutillier, 2019. "Small Entrepreneurship, Knowledge and Social Resources in a Heavy Industrial Territory. The Case of Eco-Innovations in Dunkirk, North of France," Journal of the Knowledge Economy, Springer;Portland International Center for Management of Engineering and Technology (PICMET), vol. 10(3), pages 997-1018, September.
    5. Sophie BOUTILLIER, 2012. "La création d’entreprises dans l’agglomération dunkerquoise (Nord - France). La force des liens faibles ? BUSINESS CREATION IN DUNKIRK (NORTH – FRANCE) THE STRENGTH OF WEAK TIES?," Working Papers 254, Laboratoire de Recherche sur l'Industrie et l'Innovation. ULCO / Research Unit on Industry and Innovation.
    6. Clément Marinos, 2018. "Explicitation des solidarités territoriales par les réseaux de dirigeants d’entreprises," Post-Print hal-01469575, HAL.
    7. Hélène Blasquiet-Revol & Marie-Anne M.-A. Lenain & Cédric Verbeck & E. Grasset & Jean-François Mamdy, 2009. "Creation D’Activites Et D’Emplois Dans Les Espaces Ruraux : Etat Des Lieux Des Approches Et Des Postures," Post-Print hal-02129622, HAL.
    8. Sophie BOUTILLIER & Blandine LAPERCHE & Dimitri UZUNIDIS, 2011. "Entrepreneurs Et Reconversion Des Territoires L'Exemple De Dunkerque Milieu Industrialo-Portuaire (Nord, France) Entrepreneurs And Territories Reconstruction The Case Of The Industrial And Port Milieu," Working Papers 242, Laboratoire de Recherche sur l'Industrie et l'Innovation. ULCO / Research Unit on Industry and Innovation.

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