Explorer l’accompagnement nécessaire à la poursuite d’un projet entrepreneurial en région éloignée

Abstract

L’entrepreneuriat est vu par les régions éloignées comme une manière de diversifier leur économie afinde se sortir d’une vision axée sur l’exploitation des ressources et de la main-d’oeuvre par des industries dont lesintérêts sont extérieurs et dont l’activité contribue à accentuer les disparités socioéconomiques locales. Malgrécertaines initiatives de soutien publiques et privées, plusieurs contraintes limitent le soutien donné aux entrepreneurs. Le but de cette étude est donc de mieux comprendre l’accompagnement nécessaire à la poursuite d’un projet entrepreneurial dans la région du Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean. Pour ce faire, nous utilisons les différents attributs composant l’écosystème entrepreneurial de Spigel (2017) pour analyser et interpréter des entretiens que nous avons réalisés avec différents groupes d’entrepreneurs de la région. Il en ressort entre autres que l’offre d’accompagnement n’est pas toujours adaptée aux besoins des entrepreneurs et qu’il reste des attributs de l’écosystème entrepreneurial à développer.
 Entrepreneurship in remote areas is viewed as a way to diversify their economies. The objective is to move away from a vision centred on resource and workforce exploitation by industries with outside interests and whose activities contribute to increase local socioeconomic inequalities. Despite some public and private support initiatives for entrepreneurs, a number of constraints limit this support. This study aims to better understand the support required to pursue an entrepreneurial project in the Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean region. To achieve this, we use the different attributes making up the Spigel (2017) entrepreneurial ecosystem to analyze and interpret our interviews with various groups of entrepreneurs in the region. This shows, among other findings, that the support offered is not always suited to the needs of the region’s entrepreneurs and that there are attributes of the entrepreneurial ecosystem that remain to be developed.

Entrepreneurial support: a theoretical framework and case study of Tunisia

“…These guides, made up of coaches and psychologists in particular, favor psychological assistance, which has the advantage of encouraging the creator to bring out and evaluate, through introspection, the capacities and knowledge that he or she lacks, as postulated by the BEM theory of self-perception (1967). Furthermore, these coaches will help the potential entrepreneur to move from a problem-solving perspective to one of problematization and meaning-making, facilitated by a greater and more stable self-confidence (Bramwell and al., 2019;Tremblay and al., 2022;Cevik Onar and al., 2017). Indeed, the individual no longer expects generic solutions to emerging and novel problems that mark his or her journey; he or she will seek to understand and develop his or her own solutions (Audet and Couteret, 2005;Qureshi and Mian, 2018;Toutain and al., 2020;Fortunato and Clevenger, 2022).…”

“…In this vein, numerous authors have responded to the praxeological approach by concentrating their research on entrepreneurial action (Messeghem and Sammut, 2007;Bourguiba, 2007;Schmitt, 2016;Chabaud et al, 2017;Toutain et al, 2020;Coughlin et al, 2022;Tremblay et al, 2022). According to these authors, the primary actor in the entrepreneurial process is the person who carries the business endeavor.…”

“…For (PAUL, 2009;Rhattat, 2020;Tibaingana and al., 2022;Hadzic and Pavlovic, 2017), these elements make the accompanied person occupy the position of subject-actor and not that of taken in charge. In this sense, he/she does not have to be simply receptive to the instructions and directives formalized by the experts (Audet and Couteret, 2005;Kimathi, 2017;Tremblay and al., 2022;Penov and Georgiev, 2021).…”