How to circumvent adversity? Refugee-entrepreneurs' resilience in the face of substantial and persistent adversity

Dean A. Shepherd, Fouad Philippe Saade and Joakim Wincent

Journal of Business Venturing, 2020, vol. 35, issue 4

Abstract: People face adverse events in a variety of forms. Some individuals are resilient to adverse events in that they are able to maintain positive functioning while others experience considerable disruption. In explaining heterogeneity in resilience, research has emphasized people's resource endowments and pre-adversity organizing prior to the adverse events as well as people's cognitive and behavioral responses to such events. Therefore, for most resilience studies, adversity is an event. Although it is critically important to understand resilience to these short- to medium-term adverse events, there is a need to understand resilience over an extended period. In this regard, we focus on Palestine refugees who were born in refugee camps and as adults have known nothing other than being a refugee.

Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jbusvent.2019.06.001

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