12058: Entrepreneurial Resilience in Polycrisis at the Individual, Business, and Ecosystem Levels

Sunday, July 27, 2025

13:00 - 15:00 CEST (GMT+2)

Location: Bella Center: Hall C- C3-m10

Session Type: PDW (workshop)
Orientation: Teaching,Practice,International,Research,Diversity
Shareable link: https://cdmcd.co/B8XgDd

Session Chair(s)

DK

Dafna Kariv

reichman university, Israel
DA

David Audretsch

Indiana U., Bloomington, United States

Moderator(s)

MS

Mark Sanders

Utrecht U. School of Economics
ES

Erik Stam

Utrecht U., Netherlands

Facilitator(s)

DS

Donald Siegel

Arizona State U., United States

Discussant(s)

SK

Sascha Kraus

University of Siegen, Germany
MG

Maribel Guerrero

Global Center for Technology Transfer, Arizona State U., United States

Facilitator(s)

MD

Marina Dabic

-, Croatia

Discussant(s)

VC

Vincenzo Corvello

-, Italy
LC

Luis Felipe Cisneros

HEC Montreal, Canada
PJ

Paul Jones

Swansea U., United Kingdom
FW

Friederike Welter

U. Siegen / IfM Bonn, Germany

The entrepreneurship literature has established that resilience is a critical factor for entrepreneurial success. However, in a polycrisis era—marked by simultaneous and overlapping global disruptions (Tooze, 2022)—the impact on and contribution of entrepreneurs and the ecosystems their ventures operate in, remains largely unknown. (Audretsch & Belitski, 2023; Kariv, 2022). In particular, the literature on how resilience manifests and operates across the entrepreneurship landscape levels: individual, business, and ecosystem, remains fragmented and misaligned. Because resilience serves as a vital buffer against adversity, especially during crises where traditional entrepreneurial processes prove insufficient and conventional approaches fail (Shepherd & Williams, 2020), it becomes imperative to revisit resilience across these different levels. Through a new format "Reframe & Reclaim" this PDW brings together leading scholars to facilitate participants' conceptualization of resilience at each of the three levels. We aim to develop a more distinct and accurate understanding of this vital concept and advance scholarly discourse and practical interventions for fostering within an increasingly complex global environment.