Wang, Mingchu ORCID: 0000-0002-1406-7228 and Unsworth, Kerrie (2024) Rising from the ashes: unveiling the impact of external shock on workplace relationships in start-ups. In: 40th EGOS Colloquium 2024 (European Group for Organizational Studies), 4th - 6th Jul, 2024, Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca (University of Milano-Bicocca), Milan, Italy. (In Press)

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Abstract

Amidst the formidable terrain of start-up survival, extensive research has delved into various facets of this entrepreneurial endeavor, yielding valuable insights and recommendations from individual-, team-, and organizational-levels (Honoré, 2022;
Bustamante et al., 2021; Zahra, 2021; Cole and Sokolyk, 2018; Castrogiovanni, 1996). However, the advent of the global COVID-19 pandemic has introduced an unparalleled external shock, significantly amplifying the intricacies of start-up viability (Arslan et al., 2022; Adam and Alarifi, 2021). This unforeseen crisis presents distinctive personal and organizational challenges at the workplace, differing from those previously scrutinized in entrepreneurial literature (Gambirage et al., 2023; Zhu and Wu, 2023). In this study, we set out to inductively probe a phenomenon which is common but of timely and critical importance in both entrepreneurship and crisis management research domains. To be specific, it is a common practice globally that start-up founders look to their own existing network first when recruiting staff for entrepreneurial ventures (Berger and Köhn, 2017; Mueller et al., 2012). This provides the initial context for our study to look at how their pre-existing relationships shift when facing the external shock as the global pandemic. By echoing the call from Debrulle and Maes (2015) to look internally at the role of interpersonal relationship within entrepreneurial ventures, this qualitative study extends the current knowledge boundary by unveiling how the
COVID-19 pandemic shapes existing workplace relationships, recognized as pivotal determinants for start-up performance and survival (Lazar et al., 2022; D'hont et al., 2016; Debrulle and Maes, 2015).

Item Type:	Conference or Conference Paper (Paper)
Uncontrolled Keywords:	workplace relationship; external shock; entrepreneurial team; identity leadership
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General) H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor > HD28 Management. Industrial Management
Faculty / School / Research Centre / Research Group:	Greenwich Business School Greenwich Business School > Networks and Urban Systems Centre (NUSC)
Last Modified:	27 Sep 2024 11:05
URI:	http://gala.gre.ac.uk/id/eprint/46866

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