Article
French
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Abstract
`titreb“We will not go underground”. Entrepreneur and politics in Tunisia `/titrebFrom the Tunisian case study, this article discusses the idea of a specific and circumstantial “entry in politics” of entrepreneurs, of a “politisation” of entrepreneurs. It defends the idea that entrepreneurs are always political. Relations between entrepreneurs and politics cannot be reduced neither to politician games and uncertainties of political life stricto sensu, nor to the process of political normalisation. Entrepreneurs are always political because they fit into power relations, they participate in conflicts, compromises between actors, and they are part of balance of power and, then, also shape the political. In authoritarian regimes as is Tunisia, all strategies of accommodation, arrangement and distance are not political in a restricted sense: the entrepreneurs do not totally subscribe or contrast with the regime. But the fact that entrepreneur partially subscribe and take into account constraints, personal interest and latent violence or that they express discontent is political in the general sense of the word: doing so, entrepreneurs show positions, balances of power, strategies and perceptions that ultimately draw the outlines of power relations.