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Názov: An entrepreneurial journey: reflecting on "me-search," "we-search," and the non-WEIRD.
Autori: Shepherd, Dean A.1 (AUTHOR) dshephe1@nd.edu
Zdroj: Small Business Economics. Aug2025, Vol. 65 Issue 2, p757-761. 5p.
Predmety: *ENTREPRENEURSHIP, *BUSINESS failures, *SOCIAL entrepreneurship, EMOTION regulation, AUTOBIOGRAPHY, HARDSHIP, CROSS-cultural studies, COMMUNITY-based participatory research
Abstrakt: In this presentation, accepting the Global Award for Entrepreneurship Research, I highlight the importance of me-search and we-search in generating research opportunities. I highlight how me-search provided the experiences and motivation for me to explore how (1) entrepreneurs can regulate their grief over business failure to learn from the experience, and (2) locals to a disaster can instantaneously create new ventures without any profit motive (or commercial logic) to alleviate the suffering of others. I also highlight how we-search provided the experiences and motivation for me to explore how (3) entrepreneurship can help individuals navigate chronic adversity, and (4) local scholars can substantially contribute to the field by exploring entrepreneurship in non-WEIRD contexts. I hope that other scholars generate research ideas through me-search and we-search, especially when these processes lead to published entrepreneurship research in non-WEIRD contexts because this is where, I believe, there are many opportunities to advance our understanding of entrepreneurial phenomena. Plain English Summary: In this presentation, I reflect on how lucky I have been to work with wonderful co-authors exploring entrepreneurship over the last three decades. First, I discuss my experiences with the failure of my father's business and how this led me to explore how entrepreneurs regulate their grief to learn from business failure. This "grief" study was my first step in researching the relationship between entrepreneurship and the emotions of failure. Second, I discuss how a bushfire in Australia that "took out" my auntie's house and created substantial devastation for a community motivated me to explore compassion ventures, entrepreneurs' resilience, and other responses to adverse events. Finally, I discuss my fascination with researching entrepreneurship in contexts different from my own and different from what is mostly covered in the top journals—chronic adversity and other non-WEIRD contexts. Colleagues from these contexts have been essential for helping to turn this motivation into specific, publishable studies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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Abstrakt:In this presentation, accepting the Global Award for Entrepreneurship Research, I highlight the importance of me-search and we-search in generating research opportunities. I highlight how me-search provided the experiences and motivation for me to explore how (1) entrepreneurs can regulate their grief over business failure to learn from the experience, and (2) locals to a disaster can instantaneously create new ventures without any profit motive (or commercial logic) to alleviate the suffering of others. I also highlight how we-search provided the experiences and motivation for me to explore how (3) entrepreneurship can help individuals navigate chronic adversity, and (4) local scholars can substantially contribute to the field by exploring entrepreneurship in non-WEIRD contexts. I hope that other scholars generate research ideas through me-search and we-search, especially when these processes lead to published entrepreneurship research in non-WEIRD contexts because this is where, I believe, there are many opportunities to advance our understanding of entrepreneurial phenomena. Plain English Summary: In this presentation, I reflect on how lucky I have been to work with wonderful co-authors exploring entrepreneurship over the last three decades. First, I discuss my experiences with the failure of my father's business and how this led me to explore how entrepreneurs regulate their grief to learn from business failure. This "grief" study was my first step in researching the relationship between entrepreneurship and the emotions of failure. Second, I discuss how a bushfire in Australia that "took out" my auntie's house and created substantial devastation for a community motivated me to explore compassion ventures, entrepreneurs' resilience, and other responses to adverse events. Finally, I discuss my fascination with researching entrepreneurship in contexts different from my own and different from what is mostly covered in the top journals—chronic adversity and other non-WEIRD contexts. Colleagues from these contexts have been essential for helping to turn this motivation into specific, publishable studies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
ISSN:0921898X
DOI:10.1007/s11187-025-01085-4