المقاربات النظرية المفسرة لنشأة و تطور المقاولة العرقية و تطبيقاتها على مقاولة بني مزاب نموذجا

Abstract EN

This study starts from the idea that ethnic entrepreneurship which has been emerged and developed since the early seventies when some ethnic groups start to have an important role in several economies across the world, especially in the US.

This research tries to list the different approaches that explain the genesis and the development of ethnic entrepreneurship by looking at factors encouraging and stimulating this type of entrepreneurship.

The added value of this research appears in the application of these different approaches to examines a case study of the M'zab society that shares ethnic and cultural values.

Furthermore, the research builds on historical methodology.

We also performed a survey as a qualitative approach based on a pool of 15 M'zab entrepreneurs to extract the different perspectives that encourage individuals to embark in their entrepreneurship journey.

We conclude -based on our findings- that the emergence of entrepreneurship for the M'zab community was a result of negative factors that developed into positive reinforcement under the framework of cultural characteristics and social capita