TY - JOUR

T1 - Refugee Entrepreneurship and Organizing Social Integration: Insights from Organizational Theory

AU - Farny, Steffen

AU - Kodeih, Farah

AU - Mair, Johanna

AU - Granqvist, Nina

N1 - Conference code: 77

PY - 2017/8

Y1 - 2017/8

N2 - With the population of refugees across the world at an all time high, the challenge of how to aid refugees has emerged as one of the most important challenges of our time. Meeting this challenge is not merely a technical issue – it also necessitates a thorough understanding of how this crisis can be managed, and how refugees can be included and integrated into their new surroundings. Surprisingly, though, there is a dearth of academic work at the intersection of refugee studies and both entrepreneurship and management theory. This limitation is also a missed opportunity for developing theoretical insights that can enrich and expand scholarly understanding in the aforementioned areas; entrepreneurship can explain the phenomenon of refugees defying institutional arrangements and exercising agency in rebuilding their lives, while organizational theory can shed light into the micro processes at work during such an endeavor. Further, research at this intersection can inform the theoretical understanding of organizational processes of initiatives that originate outside the refugee communities but which aim to benefit them. For these reasons, entrepreneurial organizing by and for refugees lies at the core of the proposed symposium, offering opportunities for scholars interested in organization management and entrepreneurship to ponder and build on work that can hopefully have both theoretical and practical relevance. The studies included herein broach issues related to: (1) new venture legitimation and cultural entrepreneurship, (2) emotions-driven institutional work, (3) compassionate organizing and (4) innovation in institutional voids." Managing Cultural Clashes: The case of Entrepreneurial Asylum-Seekers in FinlandPresenter: Ewald Kibler; Aalto U.Presenter: Steffen Farny; Aalto U. School of BusinessHow Entrepreneurs in Refugee Camps Navigate Paralyzed InstitutionsPresenter: Marlen De La Chaux; U. of CambridgePresenter: Helen Haugh; U. of CambridgeManaging the evolution of entrepreneurial compassionate organizingPresenter: Myrto Chliova; Aalto U. School of BusinessConflicting emotions and practice maintenance in informal refugee settelementsPresenter: Farah Kodeih; Aalto U. School of Business

AB - With the population of refugees across the world at an all time high, the challenge of how to aid refugees has emerged as one of the most important challenges of our time. Meeting this challenge is not merely a technical issue – it also necessitates a thorough understanding of how this crisis can be managed, and how refugees can be included and integrated into their new surroundings. Surprisingly, though, there is a dearth of academic work at the intersection of refugee studies and both entrepreneurship and management theory. This limitation is also a missed opportunity for developing theoretical insights that can enrich and expand scholarly understanding in the aforementioned areas; entrepreneurship can explain the phenomenon of refugees defying institutional arrangements and exercising agency in rebuilding their lives, while organizational theory can shed light into the micro processes at work during such an endeavor. Further, research at this intersection can inform the theoretical understanding of organizational processes of initiatives that originate outside the refugee communities but which aim to benefit them. For these reasons, entrepreneurial organizing by and for refugees lies at the core of the proposed symposium, offering opportunities for scholars interested in organization management and entrepreneurship to ponder and build on work that can hopefully have both theoretical and practical relevance. The studies included herein broach issues related to: (1) new venture legitimation and cultural entrepreneurship, (2) emotions-driven institutional work, (3) compassionate organizing and (4) innovation in institutional voids." Managing Cultural Clashes: The case of Entrepreneurial Asylum-Seekers in FinlandPresenter: Ewald Kibler; Aalto U.Presenter: Steffen Farny; Aalto U. School of BusinessHow Entrepreneurs in Refugee Camps Navigate Paralyzed InstitutionsPresenter: Marlen De La Chaux; U. of CambridgePresenter: Helen Haugh; U. of CambridgeManaging the evolution of entrepreneurial compassionate organizingPresenter: Myrto Chliova; Aalto U. School of BusinessConflicting emotions and practice maintenance in informal refugee settelementsPresenter: Farah Kodeih; Aalto U. School of Business

KW - Management studies

KW - Entrepreneurship

KW - Compassionate Organizing

KW - Refugee Entrepreneurship

KW - institutional work

KW - Sustainability sciences, Management & Economics

U2 - 10.5465/ambpp.2017.15394symposium

DO - 10.5465/ambpp.2017.15394symposium

M3 - Conference abstract in journal

VL - 2017

JO - Academy of Management Proceedings

JF - Academy of Management Proceedings

SN - 0065-0668

IS - 1

M1 - 15394

T2 - Annual Meeting der Academy of Management 2017

Y2 - 4 August 2017 through 8 August 2017

ER -