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Entrepreneurial resilience in the context of political repression : Evidence from Russian entrepreneurs
in 40th EGOS Colloquium, Milan, Italy, July 4-6, 2024 Università degli Studi di Milano - Bicocca 2024 - 30 p.
In this article, we examine the resilience building of entrepreneurs in the context of an authoritarian country. Using a grounded, inductive approach, we investigate how Russian entrepreneurs react to the political control and threats of repression from the government. Based on the primary and secondary interviews with Russian founders, combined with archival data, we constructed a process model and found that entrepreneurs facing the threat of repression might engage in value-resilience
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balancing. During this process, entrepreneurs have been trying to both adhere to their values and preserve their organizations, building resilience. Depending on whether the government endangers their core values, entrepreneurs have either concealed their values, creating protective disguise and shielding their organizations, or breaking their disguise, putting the organizations under a bigger threat of repression. These two behaviors led to different resilience-building processes and different outcomes for organizations. Overall, our study contributes to the literature on resilience, entrepreneurship, and authoritarian context in management and organization studies.
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