L’esprit d’entreprendre en contexte caribéen : Impact des styles managériaux sur les initiatives étudiantes francophones

Abstract

What if supporting young entrepreneurs in the Francophone Caribbean no longer meant forcing them into predefined molds, but rather recognizing the richness of their backgrounds, cultures, and territories?
This book offers a critical and transformative analysis of entrepreneurial support practices in three emblematic territories—Haiti, Guadeloupe, and Martinique—by combining perspectives from the social sciences, education, management, and critical anthropology. Based on fieldwork, accounts of initiatives, and engaged theoretical frameworks, the author calls for a rethinking of educational leadership styles around three principles: empowerment, inclusion, and resilience. Throughout the chapters, a Caribbean model of educational entrepreneurship emerges: situated, cooperative, and open to diverse knowledge and marginalized narratives. This model transforms support from a space for selection or standardization into a lever for individual emancipation and territorial justice. This book is aimed at teachers, supervisors, decision-makers, researchers, field actors and anyone concerned with building rooted, fair and sustainable educational ecosystems in a postcolonial context.