Department of Business Humanities and Law

Léna is a postdoctoral researcher working on the Rethinking Entrepreneurship in Society research project.

One of her primary research interests focuses on the engagement of marginalized communities in development initiatives in the Global South, led by external actors such as NGOs, private companies, or governments. Léna examines how these communities receive, adapt to, or resist the strategies and practices promoted by these actors.

Another area of her work explores the potential of entrepreneurship to address grand societal challenges, such as poverty and climate change, particularly in the Global South. Drawing on the concept of “entrepreneurialism”—the study of entrepreneurship as a social and cultural discourse—she investigates why entrepreneurship has become such a dominant framework in development strategies. Her research also evaluates whether entrepreneurship serves as a tool for empowerment or if it perpetuates and deepens social and economic inequalities.

For her PhD, Léna researched development projects initiated by NGOs to promote entrepreneurship within Indigenous communities in the Peruvian Amazon.