The skills of the Moroccan entrepreneur : a quantitative study
Entrepreneurship and entrepreneur rise, in recent decades, unprecedented interest in the scientific community. Much research appeared in order to better understand, decrypting the entrepreneurial phenomenon, encourage or predict entrepreneurial phenomenon. The entrepreneur, the individual at the center of this process is not left out and is the subject of much studies witch goals are to describe its attributes, personality traits, skills or his propensity to start a business in the near future. The research we present here fits into this lineage and aims to identify the skills of the entrepreneur focusing on the Moroccan context. Taking as a basis for questioning a model of skills previously validated in a sample of entrepreneurs from three Francophone countries (Loué and Baronet, 2012), we interviewed 179 entrepreneurs in various regions of Morocco. A model of 42 skills, divided into seven axis (human resources management, soft skills, detecting business opportunities and start-up a business, commercial-marketing, financial management, strategic management and management leadership) has emerged from our statistical analysis. The results presented in this article could guide and structure the actions of training centers in entrepreneurship as well as entrepreneurship support structures for business creation in Morocco.