Vingtième Siècle. Revue d'histoire - Année 1987 - Volume 15 - Numéro 1 - Pages 69-80Léon Gingembre, defender of small business firms (PME), Sylvie Guillaume A dynamic leader, Leon Gingembre succeeded in mobilizing his troops in the style of worker's unions by speaking their language and using their key words (antitaxation, anti-state-intervention, anti-technocracy), identifying with their fight and channeling their fears, in decades when small and medium-sized businesses were considered obstacles to modernization and seemed destined to slow death. He built a professional organization to represent these PME and imposed it to the authorities and big business. This arose gingembrisme, both a method of internal government and a form of complex relations with the authorities, the administration and the employers' union. 12 pages Source : Persée ; Ministère de la jeunesse, de l’éducation nationale et de la recherche, Direction de l’enseignement supérieur, Sous-direction des bibliothèques et de la documentation.