A new publication is always thrilling, and even more so when it’s with a wonderful student turned collaborator! The journey this paper traversed, from class paper to conference talk to adding new theoretical lens to finally publication in the Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management, has been incredible and I’m glad to have worked with Allison Lucas on it! 😊 Read the article here.
Many thanks to the editors and reviewers who helped shape our work! 😇🙏🏾
Here’s the abstract:
The COVID-19 crisis severely impacted entrepreneurs worldwide, so that policy dispatches like the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor’s (GEM) September 2020 special report, Diagnosing COVID-19 Impacts on Entrepreneurship: Exploring Policy Remedies for Recovery, were crucial for governments devising economic policies. Our paper examines how the GEM used institutional storytelling to craft anticipatory resilience, by drawing on the Communication Theory of Resilience and (ante)narrative approaches to anticipatory resilience. Findings demonstrated intersections of the GEM’s role of resilience storyteller, as well as how resilience action by entrepreneurs and policymakers was narrated by the GEM. We uncover key tensions within the GEM’s positioning as diagnostician and fortuneteller, between the resilient processes of normalizing and pivoting for everyday entrepreneurs, and in the institutionalizing work of policymakers through reacting and prospecting. We end by discussing key implications of our narrative approach to how institutions craft anticipatory resilience in response to global crises.
If you’d like to read the article but your institution does not have access, DM/email me for a free copy! 😎
Rahul Mitra 