From the project leader to the social enterprise: an atypical entrepreneurial path?
This article aims to understand the entrepreneurial path of social entrepreneurs, from their experience to the management of their social enterprise. Beyond the motivations and passions that animate them to create social value, we highlight the different competences needed to structure and manage their social enterprise. In order to meet the main objective of this study, an approach based on exploratory semi-directive interviews was adopted with ten social entrepreneurs in the Lyon region (France). The findings enabled us to discuss two key points: the nature of the tools mobilized in the management of the social enterprise, on one hand and the skills of the social entrepreneur to carry out his project, on the other hand.