Les réseaux de femmes entrepreneures : espaces de résilience organisationnelle

Abstract

Women entrepreneurs involved in Women entrepreneurial networks develop both individual and collaborative networking strategies that can be linked to the concept of meaningful work. The interactions fostered within these networks are perceived as a source of meaning in work. They also serve as a vector for raising awareness of the loss of meaning that led to their decision to leave their previous organizations, often experienced as generating such a loss.
This study aims to demonstrate how women entrepreneurs construct meaning through their networking practices, while highlighting the communicative dimension of this meaning-making process. The testimonies of 25 women entrepreneurs reveal various expressions of the loss of meaning at work, both at individual and collective levels. This analysis leads us to consider networks as spaces of organizational resilience.