Personal Adversity and Justifying Illegal and Costly Entrepreneurial Action

Dean A. Shepherd (), Vinit Parida () and Joakim Wincent ()
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Dean A. Shepherd: University of Notre Dame
Vinit Parida: Luleå University of Technology
Joakim Wincent: University of St. Gallen

Chapter Chapter 5 in Entrepreneurial Responses to Chronic Adversity, 2022, pp 125-152 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract This chapter—“Personal Adversity and Justifying Illegal and Costly Entrepreneurial Action”—shifts even more to the dark side of entrepreneurial action in the face of chronic adversity. Specifically, in this chapter, we explore bunkerers—oil thieves—to provide a richer understanding of how individual entrepreneurs interpret their contexts and engage in entrepreneurial action that creates significant negative outcomes. We outline a personal adversity model to explain the entrepreneurial process whereby bunkerers engage in, justify, and persist with entrepreneurial action that causes substantial damage to the local environment, communities, and entrepreneurs’ health. We show how entrepreneurs claim both high and low levels of control to justify the same action and how entrepreneurs entangle themselves and others when justifying their harmful entrepreneurial action and the resulting destruction.

Keywords: Agency; Dark Side; Environmental Damage; Illegal Businesses; Justification (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-04884-5_5

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