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Entrepreneurship in the aftermath of adversity: building resilience and evolving needs
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Ahmed, Ali Emad Abdelaziz (2021) Entrepreneurship in the aftermath of adversity: building resilience and evolving needs. PhD thesis, University of Warwick.
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Abstract
This thesis comprises three papers that explore entrepreneurial activity in the aftermath of adversity. The first paper argues for the need to integrate stress and coping while studying resilience in entrepreneurship in order to understand how entrepreneurs build resilience. We conduct a systematic review of the entrepreneurship literature on the three concepts. We develop an integrative model of the process of building psychological resilience in entrepreneurship based on our critical appraisal and organization of the three literatures. Accordingly, we offer a research agenda that outlines key future research avenues. The second paper explores one of these avenues as it expands on findings on the role of entrepreneurship in building resilience and examines how life course can shape this role. We conduct a qualitive study of the life stories of 51 refugee entrepreneurs in Egypt. We identify four resilience trajectories that differ based on the pre-migration life of the entrepreneurs along with their appraisal of the migration experience, and consequently, their functioning outcomes. The life course perspective has contributed to the resilience process in entrepreneurship by adding the key role of dynamic appraisal as well as elaborating different facets of resilience including its dark side. The third paper builds on the recent work on how basic needs can be a boundary condition of necessity entrepreneurship by taking a wider perspective on needs that includes basic psychological needs. We examine how the needs of entrepreneurs unfold in relation to their entrepreneurial activity in necessity conditions. Analyzing the narratives of 13 refugee entrepreneurs has revealed a reinterpretation narrative and a realization narrative. Both narratives show that entrepreneurs develop multiple levels of needs before or after engaging in entrepreneurship rather than just basic needs which they fulfill through pursuing business opportunities.
Item Type: | Thesis (PhD) | ||||
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Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HB Economic Theory | ||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Entrepreneurship, Resilience, Stress (Psychology) | ||||
Official Date: | October 2021 | ||||
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Institution: | University of Warwick | ||||
Theses Department: | Warwick Business School | ||||
Thesis Type: | PhD | ||||
Publication Status: | Unpublished | ||||
Supervisor(s)/Advisor: | Ucbasaran, Deniz ; Fredrich, Tamara | ||||
Extent: | vii, 182 leaves : illustrations | ||||
Language: | eng |
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