A sociological and typological approach of the entrepreneur’s logics of action towards growth
This research aims to develop new perspectives for improving the typological approach in entrepreneurship. These typologies are effectively criticized for their simplifying, or even stylistic aspect, of entrepreneurial complexity. In this perspective, we adopt the typological reasoning as it is mobilized in sociology and apply it to a classic thematic of entrepreneurial typologies : the logic of entrepreneurial action towards growth. Based on a qualitative empirical study conducted in two stages, individual interviews with 29 entrepreneurs, and two collective interviews with eight experts, we first develop a typology of differentiated categories, before then questioning existence of potential links and transitions between identified types. An analysis of the variables that influence the typology and its variations completes this work. This original approach, which aims to take a step back on the types developed and insists rather on the nuances and the variations of the typology, makes it possible to obtain results, which, while remaining intelligible, reflect the dynamics and the complexity of the entrepreneurial phenomenon observed.