L'entrepreneuriat collectif : un outil du développement territorial ?

We propose an analytical frame of the relation entrepreneurship-territorial development, emphasizing the contribution of a collective entrepreneurship to the development of territories. Our demonstration is grounded on two referential groups: on the one hand, the approach by the collective entrepreneurship, at the inter-organizational level; on the other hand, the concept of territory requires clarification. The pragmatic dimension is based on a case in a region of Madagascar. The methodological choice lies in a not participative observation, with semi directive interviews interpreted through phenomenological storytelling. The results underline a collective and territorialized entrepreneurial fact, sustaining the territorialisation process, viewed as the construction, from a neutral space, to a territory supporting an actors' dynamic, seen as meta-organizational. The part of the entrepreneurship, extending beyond the creation of new firms, widens in the capacity to co-build a common resource inferring the process of the territorial development.