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2024 AOM Annual Meeting

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305: Extreme (Events and) Entrepreneurship (10499)

Saturday, August 10, 2024
10:00 – 12:00 CT (GMT-5/UTC-5)
Location: Hyatt: Water Tower
Session Number: 305
PDW (workshop)
Orientation: Research
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The occurrence and recurrence of extreme events such as the wars in Ukraine and Gaza, (domestic) terrorism events and school shootings, forced displacement in Myanmar, Syria, and Africa, and the increasingly intense draughts, wildfires, floods and earthquakes, and the Covid-19 global pandemic, have motivated, and documented, new forms and functions of entrepreneurship. This PDW takes stock of the contributions already made in studying entrepreneurship as a response to different types of extreme events, builds event- centric community of inquiry, and raises poignant questions regarding the theories and methodologies required to study forms and functions of entrepreneurship as they emerge and evolve under extreme conditions. To orient attention from the extreme events themselves to the unique entrepreneurial energy human suffering and thriving unleashes in response, we propose the term “extreme entrepreneurship”. Extreme entrepreneurship has the potential to advance theory in four nested ways. First, by systematically integrating insights across different types of extreme events, new typologies of concepts and processes can emerge. Second, these typologies can inform new research programs, by setting up explicit contrasts among concepts or processes. Third, these explicit contrasts can motivate elaborations of established theories and/or extensions of available methodologies. Fourth, new collaboration opportunities can be crafted as entrepreneurship scholars deliberately borrow and build on each other’s contexts, approaches, and insights. The PDW combines a rapid review (to leverage the former two goals) with a rapid response format (to catalyze the latter two goals), offering common ground for scholars bracing extreme entrepreneurship.

This workshop introduces the term "extreme entrepreneurship" and will cover the following topics: (1) Systematically integrating insights from different types of extreme events, enabling the emergence of new typologies of concepts and processes; (2) Establishing explicit contrasts among concepts or processes; (3) Extending available methodologies; (4) Crafting new collaboration opportunities as entrepreneurship scholars deliberately borrow and build on each other's contexts, approaches, and insights. The PDW combines a rapid review (to leverage the first two goals with PowerPoint presentations from panelists during the first half) with a rapid response format (to catalyze the last two goals in a roundtable discussion). If you want access to the presentation, please email: sadek.showkat@louisville.edu & nyakushk@vols.utk.edu. No registration required.