Supporting refugees: An entrepreneurial resourcefulness approach

Hans Rawhouser, Mazhar Islam, Lisa Jones Christensen, Elizabeth Embry, Trenton A. Williams, Michael Conger and Cindy Trussel

Journal of Business Venturing Insights, 2024, vol. 22, issue C

Abstract: This rapid research paper seeks to aid Lighthouse Charities (LC), a Las Vegas-based refugee-sponsoring organization. Rather than channeling all refugees toward entrepreneurship, LC utilizes a two-pronged entrepreneurial resourcefulness approach. LC creates refugee-focused work integration social enterprises (WISEs) and also supports refugee clients as entrepreneurs. While LC helps many refugees with this approach, LC seeks a more systematic lens (versus a trial-and-error approach) to understand and adjust to the limits of using an ER approach. Experts from three theoretical perspectives (trauma exposure, identity adjustment, and entrepreneurial failure) provide theoretically informed insights into how LC can systematically adjust the ER approach to help refugees by matching resources to opportunities, modifying existing resources to potential opportunities, and transitioning away from resourcefulness.

Date: 2024
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jbvi.2024.e00496

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