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2025 AOM Annual Meeting

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18981: Extreme (Events and) Entrepreneurship

Friday, July 25, 2025
08:30 - 10:30 CEST (GMT+2)
Location: Bella Center: Hall C- C3-m2
Session Type: PDW (workshop)
Orientation: Research
Shareable link: https://cdmcd.co/6vpXG4
Extreme events ranging from climate-related natural disasters and displacements to school shootings, raging wars, enduring conflicts, and refugee crises have come to dominate everyday media. Once unprecedented (Phan & Woods, 2020), such disruptions are becoming increasingly common (Phan, 2022). The incidence and intensity of such “life-and-death events” (Hällgren, Rouleau, & de Rond, 2017) compel a closer look at how we organize, both in their aftermath and in anticipation. This PDW introduces event systems to entrepreneurship scholars, curates existing contributions and announces calls for papers exploring organizing in response to extreme events, and supports networking and collaboration among scholars from different disciplines interested in addressing some of today’s greatest Grand Challenges. To orient attention from life and death events as unique or rare occurrences to normal mainstays in our contexts, phenomena, theory and methodology, we underscore 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 dilemmas, approaches, and insights.

There is no registration, this is open for all participants in AOM