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Michel Marchesnay

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Michel Marchesnay

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Emeritus, University of Montpellier (France), Michel Marchesnay presided over two French speaking international associations (AIMS, AIREPME), related to the academic fields of industrial economics, strategy and entrepreneurship. He is a member of scientific committees of several academic reviews on these fields. He signed alone or joint academic works and handbooks, and dozens of papers, contributions, and communications. His research interests have successively dealt with costing and budgeting practices (1965) , dynamic capacities (68), dynamic theory of the firm (70), “meso” (intermediate) analysis (75) , SME , dependence and “hypofirm” (80), entrepreneurial strategy (85), strategic grids (90), typologies of entrepreneurs (95), strategy of singularity (2000), hypermodernity (2005), pragmatism (2010), managerial and entrepreneurial history. Medal of the University of Quebec at Trois Rivières, a biannual prize Julien – Marchesnay honours an eminent scholar in SME and Entrepreneurship.


ABSTRACT

Opportunity and opportunism are kaleidoscopic words, as revealed in scholarly works. That pluralism is due to the variety of approaches, studied in this essay according three angles: semantic, historic, and pragmatic. Firstly, the Greek and Latin roots enlighten the alternative impact of three basic behaviours – hubris, metis, phronesis– on opportunity, as an intent, and opportunism, as a practice. The second part refers to the both “history” and “stories”. Early   theorists on French entrepreneurship reveal differentiated versions of opportunism, supported either by realistic stories, as novels by Balzac, or by actual cases, as the Digicode story. The third part prioritises the opportunity as a   pragmatic and cognitive process, based on the own perceptions of entrepreneur, viewed as an idiosyncratic people. Consequently, opportunity is not appraised, either as a hazardous “windfall event” ( a “flash of genius”), or as a determinist discovery of “hidden markets”. It must be assumed to result from conscious, or even unconscious processes, linked to past events and culture of each entrepreneur.


Activités de recherche

Travaux de 1962 à 2004

Curiculum Vitae

30 ans de direction de thèses : Bilan et Perspectives

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