BUILDING RESILIENCE OR PROVIDING SUSTENANCE: DIFFERENT PATHS OF EMERGENT VENTURES IN THE AFTERMATH OF THE HAITI EARTHQUAKE

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Williams, Trenton A.; Shepherd, Dean A.
• 署名单位: Syracuse University; Indiana University System; IU Kelley School of Business; Indiana University Bloomington
• 刊物名称: ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT JOURNAL
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0001-4273
• DOI: 10.5465/amj.2015.0682
• 发表日期: 2016
• 页码: 2069-2102
• 关键词: disaster; entrepreneurship; community; IDENTITY; FIRMS; RISK; ORGANIZATIONS; COMPASSIONATE; LEGITIMATE; ACADEMIA

摘要

Disaster events threaten the lives, economies, and wellbeing of those they impact. Understanding the role of emergent organizations in responding to suffering and building resilience is an important component of the grand challenge of how to effectively respond to disasters. In this inductive case study we explore venture creation initiated by locals in response to suffering following the 2010 Haiti earthquake. In exploring six ventures we found that two distinctive groups emerged in terms of their identification of potential opportunities to alleviate suffering, their access to and use of key resources, the action they took, and ultimately their effectiveness in facilitating resilience. We offer an inductive, grounded theoretical model that emerged from our data that provides insight into and an extension of literature on resilience to adversity and the disaster literature on emergent response groups, opening pathways for management scholarship to contribute in a meaningful way to this grand challenge.