The End of Resilience? Managing Vulnerability Through Temporal Resourcing and Resisting. (May 2023)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Branzei, Oana; Fathallah, Ramzi
• Other Names: Batjargal Bat guest-editor.; Jack Sarah guest-editor.; Mickiewicz Tomasz guest-editor.; Stam Erik guest-editor.; Stam Wouter guest-editor.; Wennberg Karl guest-editor.
• Is Part Of: Entrepreneurship theory and practice. Volume 47:Number 3(2023)
• Page Start: 831
• Page End: 863
• Publication Date: 2023-05
• Subjects: qualitative -- time/temporal aspects -- entrepreneurship -- resilience -- vulnerability -- adversity; Small business -- Periodicals; New business enterprises -- Periodicals; Entrepreneurship -- Periodicals; 658.421
• DOI: 10.1177/10422587211053809
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1042-2587

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.