British Academy of Management ( BAM ) conference 2019
2nd - 6th September
Aston University, Birmingham
The Annual BAM conference was held this year at Aston University. Mark Hart, Stephen Roper and Maria Wishart delivered a workshop entitled ‘Building better business resilience in micro and small firms across Europe’ at a fringe session. This was an opportunity to disseminate the emergent findings of the JP Morgan-funded ‘Building better business resilience’ research project, which the ERC is leading in collaboration with partner institutions from four other European cities. The ERC team were joined at the workshop by Sonali Parekh from the Federation of Small Business (FSB), William Pedder from the Institute of Family Business (IFB) and entrepreneur Olu Orugboh, CEO and Founder of Synergy Solutions, who all participated in a lively and wide-ranging panel discussion.
Maria Wishart and Halima Jibril also presented their paper ‘Do resilient entrepreneurs plan better for adversity?’ in the Entrepreneurship stream at the conference. The paper addresses the link between an entrepreneur’s individual resilience and the resilience planning practices of their firm. It finds a significant relationship between individual resilience and firm-level resilience planning strategies, suggesting that developing an individual leader’s resilience may be a route to shock-proofing their firms
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