TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bergeron,Henri
AU  -  Castel,Patrick
AU  -  Nouguez,Étienne
AU  -  Hamilton,Peter
TI  - Towards a Sociology of the Boundary-Entrepreneur
PY  - 2013///.
							
N1  - 10
N2  - This paper aims to contribute to the literature on the role of entrepreneurs in social and institutional change. Having described the types of “intermediary-entrepreneurs” and “translator-entrepreneurs” which have previously been identified in sociology, the authors propose a third type, that of the “boundary-entrepreneur” defined as an actor at the border of closed universes, a boundary-object and a border-guard. The study of the creation of a French programme for the prevention of childhood obesity helps to identify some of its promoters as boundary-entrepreneurs. The paper shows that these promoters have extended their self-presentations to fit into a world of multiple institutional boundaries and conflicts. By adopting the symmetrical point of view of the programme’s partners, the authors show that their recruitment was based on a series of projections and selective appropriations about the identity of the promoters of the programme and the actions that were developed
UR  - https://shs.cairn.info/journal-revue-francaise-de-sociologie-2013-2-page-263?lang=en
ER  -