La fabrique de l'avenir une sociologie historique des business plans
Dissertation, Université Toulouse Jean Jaurès, 2010
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | Dissertation, Université Toulouse Jean Jaurès, 2010 Cette thèse propose une s ... This thesis consists in a historical sociology of new venture business plans. It is based on empirical data that shed light on various turning points in the history of these management tools. Five successive case studies are hence presented. The first one deals with the business plans of statesman, scientist and entrepreneur Pierre Samuel Du Pont de Nemours in the late XVIIIth century, the second one with those of the gunpowder manufactory that was to be set up by his son Éleuthère Irénée Du Pont de Nemours in Delaware in the early XIXth century, the third one with the business plan handbooks that were published in the US from 1945 to 2010, the fourth one with the reliance on plans of French State support to jobless entrepreneurs between 1987 and 2007, and the last one with Renault's plans to set up a new plant in Brazil in the mid 1990's. The first contribution of this research is historical. It accounts for the main evolutions of the forms and uses of business plans throughout their history. And it notably highlights the roles of economic and management sciences, as well as that of the State, in the modern and contemporary formalization of business plans, which may be described as a crisis rationalization, made to improve entrepreneurial mastery over the future in times of growing uncertainty. Business plans also raise important sociological questions. The first of these are related to the specific sphere of activities that is studied here: 1) it is indeed possible, thanks to the observation of business plans, to enhance a sociology of entrepreneurship that pays attention to entrepreneurial work and thus goes further than theories of creative genius; 2) the business plan is also a useful entry point for a sociology of organizing that understands the processes through which social and material orders are deliberately made to emerge. Both these lines of questioning are related in the thesis to a question of general sociology: that of the role of the future in present action. The study of business plans shows that the future that is embedded in the plan isn't necessarily imposed to action as a constraining frame but is often rather folded into the present. There, it contributes to the valuation and reconfiguration of the coming action, and initiates its performation |
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| Beschreibung: | Bibliogr. p. 489-535 |
| Beschreibung: | 535 Seiten Illustrationen 105 x 148 mm |