Exploring entrepreneurship resilience capabilities during Armageddon: a qualitative study
Purpose During disturbances and unprecedented events, firms are required to be resilient to confront crises, recover from losses, and even capitalize on new opportunities. The aim of this paper is twofold: (1) to examine how different types of capabilities (routine, dynamic or ad hoc) steer an entre...
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| author | Fares, Julian |
| author2 | Sadaka, Sami El Hokayem, Jihad |
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| author_facet | Fares, Julian Sadaka, Sami El Hokayem, Jihad |
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| dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv | Fares, Julian Sadaka, Sami El Hokayem, Jihad |
| dc.date.none.fl_str_mv | 2022 2022-10-28 2025-10-14T08:49:00Z 2025-10-14T08:49:00Z |
| dc.identifier.none.fl_str_mv | 1355-2554 http://hdl.handle.net/10725/17357 https://doi.org/10.1108/IJEBR-03-2022-0293 Fares, J., Sadaka, S., & El Hokayem, J. (2022). Exploring entrepreneurship resilience capabilities during Armageddon: a qualitative study. International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behavior & Research, 28(7), 1868-1898. http://libraries.lau.edu.lb/research/laur/terms-of-use/articles.php https://www.emerald.com/ijebr/article/28/7/1868/510662/Exploring-entrepreneurship-resilience-capabilities |
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| description | Purpose During disturbances and unprecedented events, firms are required to be resilient to confront crises, recover from losses, and even capitalize on new opportunities. The aim of this paper is twofold: (1) to examine how different types of capabilities (routine, dynamic or ad hoc) steer an entrepreneurial firm into ecological, engineering and evolutionary resilience and (2) to identify strategic activities that are deployed by firms with different capabilities to achieve resilience. Design/methodology/approach Data were gathered using structured qualitative interviews with 26 entrepreneurial resilient firms that managed to survive a multitude of coinciding crises. Findings The findings show that each type of capability enhances the ability to achieve a specific resilience outcome: ad hoc capability for partial engineering resilience, routine capability for ecological resilience and dynamic capability for evolutionary resilience. Furthermore, ad hoc capabilities are shown to be favored when firms' losses are severe. In contrast, routine and dynamic capabilities are preferred when losses are mild. The most significant capability deployment activities related to building resilience are corporate strategic changes, global export strategy, cost reduction, stakeholder support, positive mindset, fund raising, network building, product development, efficiency improvement and restructuring. These activities are segregated based on capability and resilience types. Practical implications Practitioners are encouraged to cast off limiting assumptions and beliefs that firms are conditioned to fail when faced with unprecedented crises. This study provides an integrative portfolio of capabilities and activities as a toolbox that can be used by different entrepreneurs and policy makers to achieve resilience and better performance. Originality/value The paper undertakes a first of its kind empirical examination of the association between capabilities and resilience. The context is unique as it involves a multitude of coinciding crises including Covid-19 pandemic, city explosion, economic collapse, political instability and a severe banking crisis. |
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| spelling | Exploring entrepreneurship resilience capabilities during Armageddon: a qualitative studyFares, JulianSadaka, SamiEl Hokayem, JihadPurpose During disturbances and unprecedented events, firms are required to be resilient to confront crises, recover from losses, and even capitalize on new opportunities. The aim of this paper is twofold: (1) to examine how different types of capabilities (routine, dynamic or ad hoc) steer an entrepreneurial firm into ecological, engineering and evolutionary resilience and (2) to identify strategic activities that are deployed by firms with different capabilities to achieve resilience. Design/methodology/approach Data were gathered using structured qualitative interviews with 26 entrepreneurial resilient firms that managed to survive a multitude of coinciding crises. Findings The findings show that each type of capability enhances the ability to achieve a specific resilience outcome: ad hoc capability for partial engineering resilience, routine capability for ecological resilience and dynamic capability for evolutionary resilience. Furthermore, ad hoc capabilities are shown to be favored when firms' losses are severe. In contrast, routine and dynamic capabilities are preferred when losses are mild. The most significant capability deployment activities related to building resilience are corporate strategic changes, global export strategy, cost reduction, stakeholder support, positive mindset, fund raising, network building, product development, efficiency improvement and restructuring. These activities are segregated based on capability and resilience types. Practical implications Practitioners are encouraged to cast off limiting assumptions and beliefs that firms are conditioned to fail when faced with unprecedented crises. This study provides an integrative portfolio of capabilities and activities as a toolbox that can be used by different entrepreneurs and policy makers to achieve resilience and better performance. Originality/value The paper undertakes a first of its kind empirical examination of the association between capabilities and resilience. The context is unique as it involves a multitude of coinciding crises including Covid-19 pandemic, city explosion, economic collapse, political instability and a severe banking crisis.Published2025-10-14T08:49:00Z2025-10-14T08:49:00Z20222022-10-28Articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/article1355-2554http://hdl.handle.net/10725/17357https://doi.org/10.1108/IJEBR-03-2022-0293Fares, J., Sadaka, S., & El Hokayem, J. (2022). Exploring entrepreneurship resilience capabilities during Armageddon: a qualitative study. International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behavior & Research, 28(7), 1868-1898.http://libraries.lau.edu.lb/research/laur/terms-of-use/articles.phphttps://www.emerald.com/ijebr/article/28/7/1868/510662/Exploring-entrepreneurship-resilience-capabilitiesenInternational Journal of Entrepreneurial Behavior & Researchinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:laur.lau.edu.lb:10725/173572025-10-14T08:49:00Z |
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