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A Conceptualization of Women’s Collective Entrepreneurship: From Strategic Perspectives to Public Policies

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Women’s Entrepreneurship and Economics

Part of the book series: International Studies in Entrepreneurship ((ISEN,volume 1000))

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There has been a considerable increase in studies dealing with women’s entrepreneurship and with collective entrepreneurship, respectively. However, studies focusing on women’s collective entrepreneurship are far from understanding the conceptualization of the relationship between collective entrepreneurship and women. To help fill this void, the authors use the essay method. In the first part, they begin by identifying the two transformative perspectives at the foundation of women’s collective entrepreneurship, that is to say self-management and feminism, which both converge and differ. They then present concrete manifestations illustrating the building of new economic and gender-based social relations, through examples of social innovations at the organizational level. In the second part, they discuss the strategic positioning of the transformative perspectives in public policies, as it is from these perspectives that the movements develop their strategic capability to mobilize resources, such as those of the State.

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    The difference between instituting and instituted can be likened to the relationship that exists between utopia and ideology, developed by Malo (2003). The author drew from Ricoeur (1997) and revealed the complementarity of the classical works on cooperativology, by Desroche (1976) and by Vienney (1994). Instituting is on the side of utopia, innovation, the dynamics of change, the ideal project, the alternative to the world that is. Instituted is on the side of ideology, the institution, rules, the world that is. And although the instituting nature of an innovation opens up the field of possibilities, the instituted (new rules) is always a compromise with the existing (the rules in place).

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    “ […] to be disseminated and institutionalized, a social innovation must be adopted by a growing number of actors and communities. However, this adoption is not a passive process; involved and interested actors will thus seek to harness the innovation in order to integrate it and in doing so will modify its contours, its form and sometimes its very essence.” [translation] (Malo et al. 2007).

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  1. Department of Management CRISES, HEC Montréal, 3000, Chemin de la Côte-Sainte-Catherine, Montréal, QC, Canada

    Marie-Claire Malo & Martine Vézina

  2. Facultad de Ciencias Sociales, University of Castilla-La Mancha, Avda. de los Alfares, 44, Cuenca, 16071, Spain

    Inmaculada Buendía-Martínez

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Malo, MC., Buendía-Martínez, I., Vézina, M. (2012). A Conceptualization of Women’s Collective Entrepreneurship: From Strategic Perspectives to Public Policies. In: Galindo, MA., Ribeiro, D. (eds) Women’s Entrepreneurship and Economics. International Studies in Entrepreneurship, vol 1000. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-1293-9_14

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