The End of Resilience? Managing Vulnerability Through Temporal Resourcing and Resisting

Oana Branzei and Ramzi Fathallah

Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, 2023, vol. 47, issue 3, 831-863

Abstract: We induce a first-person conceptualization of entrepreneurial resilience. Our seven-year, two-study ethnography shows that entrepreneurs enact resilience as a four-step process of managing vulnerability: they richly experience episodes of adversity, self-monitor across episodes, reassess personal thresholds and reconcile challenges with coping skills. Entrepreneurs manage vulnerability by (1) modifying ( stretching and shrinking ) objective time and (2) changing their subjective experience of time as working with or against the clock through temporal resourcing or temporal resisting . We extend the theory and practice of entrepreneurial resilience by elaborating the interplay of objective and subjective time in managing vulnerability in recurrent and unprecedented crises.

Keywords: qualitative; time/temporal aspects; entrepreneurship; resilience; vulnerability; adversity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1177/10422587211053809

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