La construction ddun systeeme statistique: Le cas des statistiques du commerce inteerieur en France, de 1945   la fin des anneees 1960 (Constructing a Statistical System: The Case of French National Trade Statistics, from 1945 to the Late 1960s)

Jacques, Tristan; Pinzón-Fuchs, Erich

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“…After the war, French retail continued to be largely dominated by a dense network of “mom and pop” stores (Verrière, ) and did not attract the attention of public policy, which focused essentially on industrial restoration and production. From the mid‐1950s, the administration began to take an interest in the retail sector with a view to modernizing it, particularly to fight inflation (Jacques, ; Jacques & Pinzon‐Fuchs, ). As some of the archives of the Internal Commerce Office and Finance Ministry indicate (Jacques, : 51), French retail was considered to be a blocking factor in translating industrial productivity gains into a decrease in the consumer prices.…”

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Reintroducing public actors in entrepreneurial dynamics: A co‐evolutionary approach to categorization

Demil

2019

Strategic Entrepreneurship

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Research Summary Categories are important cognitive and social interfaces for entrepreneurs and new ventures. However, the categories forged by the state and public agencies have been largely overlooked by the literature. A historical narrative explores the categorization process to register French mail order companies in an administrative nomenclature. This categorization performs reality by providing legality to a new population and by producing enduring social boundaries. Moreover, the historical reasoning enables to assimilate the emergence of a new category with a co‐evolutionary process, avoiding the reification of categories by considering multilevel interactions. Finally, our narrative highlights the need to consider the interests of entrepreneurs and public actors symmetrically. Managerial Summary How do the state and public agencies categorize new activities? Such categorization can have substantial consequences for entrepreneurs in terms of subsidies, regulation, or control. A historical narrative is built to trace the emergence of the French mail order category in a public nomenclature. This narrative suggests that the categorization results from the convergence of three evolutions over time: a growing interest of public policy in retailing; the development of the French statistical apparatus after world war II (WWII); and the collective entrepreneurship of the mail order companies. Entrepreneurs should consequently dedicate attention to the tools for recording economic activity, be aware of windows of opportunity occurring in the categorization process and eventually take action to influence the way they are categorized.

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Section: Empirical Setting: the Categorization Of A New Populationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Reintroducing public actors in entrepreneurial dynamics: A co‐evolutionary approach to categorization

Demil

2019

Strategic Entrepreneurship

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La construction ddun systeeme statistique: Le cas des statistiques du commerce inteerieur en France, de 1945 la fin des anneees 1960 (Constructing a Statistical System: The Case of French National Trade Statistics, from 1945 to the Late 1960s)

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Reintroducing public actors in entrepreneurial dynamics: A co‐evolutionary approach to categorization

Reintroducing public actors in entrepreneurial dynamics: A co‐evolutionary approach to categorization

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