The entry into the very small compagny of the external buyer: an equivocal change at the origin of a process of sensemaking
This research aims to better understanding the process of entering into the business of an external buyer into a small company. The change appears being an important topic when one broaches the subject of the resumption of company and the entry according to the buyer. The theories of the sensemaking, original interpretative approach, make us foresee the arrival of a new leader in a small group of individual like an ecological change ambiguity and an interruption strongly destabilizing, which requires on behalf of the actors a work of redefinition of their own reality via the multiplication of intersubjective exchanges. The construction of direction engaged by all actors makes it possible for everyone to make the event comprehensible and, by the same one, to locate its action in a system of organised actions in the process of being renewed. Based on a multiple case study (10 analyzed cases, 31 talks), the results highlight a process called collective reconstruction of direction post-recovery meaning. They also show the existence of organisational factors that have a significant influence on the process.