Supporting refugees: An entrepreneurial resourcefulness approach

Q1 Business, Management and Accounting Journal of Business Venturing Insights Pub Date : 2024-10-03 DOI:10.1016/j.jbvi.2024.e00496

Hans Rawhouser , Mazhar Islam , Lisa Jones Christensen , Elizabeth Embry , Trenton A. Williams , Michael Conger , Cindy Trussel

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This rapid research paper seeks to aid Lighthouse Charities (LC), a Las Vegas-based refugee-sponsoring organization. Rather than channeling all refugees toward entrepreneurship, LC utilizes a two-pronged entrepreneurial resourcefulness approach. LC creates refugee-focused work integration social enterprises (WISEs) and also supports refugee clients as entrepreneurs. While LC helps many refugees with this approach, LC seeks a more systematic lens (versus a trial-and-error approach) to understand and adjust to the limits of using an ER approach. Experts from three theoretical perspectives (trauma exposure, identity adjustment, and entrepreneurial failure) provide theoretically informed insights into how LC can systematically adjust the ER approach to help refugees by matching resources to opportunities, modifying existing resources to potential opportunities, and transitioning away from resourcefulness.

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支持难民：创业机智方法

本快速研究论文旨在帮助拉斯维加斯的难民赞助组织灯塔慈善机构（Lighthouse Charities，简称 LC）。LC 并未引导所有难民创业，而是采用了双管齐下的创业资源方法。LC 创建了以难民为重点的工作融合社会企业 (WISE)，同时也支持难民客户成为企业家。虽然 LC 通过这种方法帮助了许多难民，但 LC 仍在寻求一种更系统的视角（而非试错法），以了解和适应使用 ER 方法的局限性。来自三个理论视角（创伤暴露、身份调整和创业失败）的专家提供了有理论依据的见解，说明 LC 如何系统地调整 ER 方法，通过将资源与机会相匹配、根据潜在机会修改现有资源以及从足智多谋过渡到足智多谋来帮助难民。

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