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Until recently, entrepreneurship research has neglected the question of micro entrepreneurship. The typified micro-entrepreneur is an owner-manager, perceiving, knowing and acting, intimately embedded in his (her) own social context. According to William James, the pragmatist methodology appraises the processes relating "percepts" and "concepts". The key assumptions are individualism and subjectivism, pluralism, evolutionism, relativism and utilitarianism. Searching for feasible, satisfactory and useful decisions, at the both individual and social levels, the pragmatic approach has inspired a strategic grid, aimed to improve the search process at the heart of the turbulent and neglected world of micro entrepreneurship, every entrepreneur being assumed as idiosyncratic, faced with specific problems and situations of his own. That grid helps to enlighten the relativism of choices, based on the philosophic assumption of contingency. It encompasses the plurality of events and problems, and assesses the link between the both logic(s) and practice(s) of action(s). The high a priori variety of singular events and types of micro-entrepreneurs will entail a growing cooperation between scholars of different fields, especially for teaching and learning policies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The development of the new small firm during the last ten years raises the problem of the conditions for becoming competitive. Competitiveness is achieved not by seeking to increase the size of the enterprise, but by increasing the number of internal and external transactions in an auto-setting environment, especially with the increasing importance of services with goods and in production. The change in style of entrepreneurship is fundamental in this process. The resulting new relationships with the environment lead researchers to reflect on the concept of ‘personal’ or controlled network. But they cause new problems of vulnerability and new transaction space for these small firms. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]