The Resilient Entrepreneur

From Crisis to Enlightenment
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-5292-0120-8
Verlag: Bristol University Press

Buch, Englisch, 256 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 299 g

How can entrepreneurs become mentally, emotionally and practically prepared for a crisis? What strategies might help them endure and surface from a crisis? And what can we learn from them?

Drawing on research and insights from 20 years spent studying entrepreneurs, Rachel Doern explores the experiences of entrepreneurs facing crises and presents practical strategies for building resilience in a turbulent world. With real-life examples and hands-on exercises, this book offers actionable steps to build resilience — and to protect it — by helping us shift how we think, what we focus on and how we shape and use our environment and resources.

Essential reading for entrepreneurs, students and academics, business stakeholders, coaches and mentors, this book provides a fresh perspective on navigating crises. Through personal stories of resilience, it offers inspiration and guidance for the resilience work we can all do.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Doern, Rachel

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Management Unternehmensorganisation & Entwicklungsstrategien
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Management Unternehmensführung
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Humangeographie Wirtschaftsgeographie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

An Introduction to Entrepreneurs in Crisis

1. Understanding Resilience

Part 1: Strategies Entrepreneurs Use That Strengthen Resilience

2. Distraction

3. Expectation Management

4. Positive Self-talk

5. Positive Reappraisal

6. Situation Selection and Modification

7. Offsetting Resource Losses

8. Leaning into Social Support

Part 2: Strategies That Can Compromise Resilience and How to Manage Them

9. Denial

10. Rumination

11. Behavioural Disengagement

Part 3: Conclusions

12. The Resilience Work We Can All Do

Appendix A: Additional Commentary on the Implications of the Research

Appendix B: Additional Commentary for Studying Entrepreneurs in Crisis and Resilience

Über Autor(innen)

Rachel Doern is Reader/Associate Professor of Entrepreneurship at Goldsmiths, University of London. She researches crisis management and resilience in an entrepreneurial context. Her work has appeared in the popular press, including the BBC and Los Angeles Times.