De salarié à entrepreneur social : quelles sont les motivations à se lancer dans une telle démarche ?

Abstract

The purpose of this thesis consists in highlighting the motivations that encourage individuals to start on the path of social entrepreneurship. We noticed that, nowadays, people want to experiment a lot of different jobs. Indeed, on average, the actual generation moves and changes of occupation every three or five years. To get a better understanding of our reflexion, this thesis is built in three parts. First, in the entire population, we look at individuals who want to change their work-life and leave their job to find another one which better matches their values. Then, we focus our analysis on people who move towards entrepreneurship. Finally, we only take into account individuals who have become social entrepreneurs. This study is carried through a qualitative method based on “life story theory” and on the professional careers of eight social entrepreneurs. Four conclusions are exposed in this work: motivations are considered as causes or consequences, motivations are based on personal or social interest, motivations are influenced by external factors which ease the creation and motivations need maturity to be effective. This master thesis does not bring up new theories but make a summary of existing theories on the subject of social entrepreneurs’ motivations and makes a comparison between these theories and the results analysed in the practical part. Social entrepreneurship is the new trend of the last years and our work wants to bring to the fore this concept and maybe give the motivation to other people to join the procedure.