Contextualizing risk and building resilience: returnee versus local entrepreneurs in China

Liu, Y. (2020) Contextualizing risk and building resilience: returnee versus local entrepreneurs in China. Applied Psychology, 69 (2). pp. 415-443. ISSN 1464-0597 doi: 10.1111/apps.12177

Abstract/Summary

Risk is a pivotal concept in entrepreneurship research, as entrepreneurs constantly face uncertainty, ambiguity, setbacks, and stressful situations. Attitudes toward risk vary contingent upon individual risk preferences and cultural influences. Building resilience is critical for entrepreneurs to overcome obstacles, deal with risk, and grow their ventures. By juxtaposing effectuation theory and resilience literature, we compare the perceptions of risk held by Chinese returnees and local entrepreneurs and their coping strategies in building resilience. Our research reveals two types of coping approaches, namely effectual coping and causal coping. This study contributes to the comparative international entrepreneurship literature by contextualizing the notion of risk held by entrepreneurs influenced by Eastern and Western cultures. Our study further contributes to the nascent literature on resilience in organizations by specifying the entrepreneurial occupational context and exploring the influence of cultures on resilience, and by identifying distinctive resilience‐building coping strategies based upon cultural influences and interpretations of risk. Furthermore, we suggest that resilience can constitute one micro‐foundation of effectuation theory in the context of entrepreneurship dealing with risk.

Item Type	Article
URI	https://reading-clone.eprints-hosting.org/id/eprint/80095
Identification Number/DOI	10.1111/apps.12177
Refereed	Yes
Divisions	Henley Business School > Leadership, Organisations and Behaviour
Publisher	Wiley
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