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Personal Adversity and Justifying Illegal and Costly Entrepreneurial Action

In: Entrepreneurial Responses to Chronic Adversity

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  • Dean A. Shepherd

    (University of Notre Dame)

  • Vinit Parida

    (Luleå University of Technology
    University of Vaasa)

  • Joakim Wincent

    (University of St. Gallen
    Hanken School of Economics)

Abstract

This chapter—“Personal Adversity and Justifying Illegal and Costly Entrepreneurial Action”—shifts even more to the dark side of entrepreneurial action in the face of chronic adversity. Specifically, in this chapter, we explore bunkerers—oil thieves—to provide a richer understanding of how individual entrepreneurs interpret their contexts and engage in entrepreneurial action that creates significant negative outcomes. We outline a personal adversity model to explain the entrepreneurial process whereby bunkerers engage in, justify, and persist with entrepreneurial action that causes substantial damage to the local environment, communities, and entrepreneurs’ health. We show how entrepreneurs claim both high and low levels of control to justify the same action and how entrepreneurs entangle themselves and others when justifying their harmful entrepreneurial action and the resulting destruction.

Suggested Citation

  • Dean A. Shepherd & Vinit Parida & Joakim Wincent, 2022. "Personal Adversity and Justifying Illegal and Costly Entrepreneurial Action," Springer Books, in: Entrepreneurial Responses to Chronic Adversity, chapter 0, pages 125-152, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-3-031-04884-5_5
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-04884-5_5
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