This project proposes an exploratory study in entrepreneurial resilience applied for the first time, to our knowledge, to media development in a country suffering from an ongoing civil conflict and dire humanitarian crisis. We conceptualize entrepreneurial resilience in three ways:
- a set of capabilities, or the ability to withstand precarity, adversity and hardship
- a process, or the ways in which entrepreneurs adapt to adversity
- a resilient outcome, or the ability to not experience any adverse effects of a stressful event
Because ‘entrepreneurial resilience’ applied to independent media development is a new concept, the group will initially meet several times to determine the appropriate measures, sample and creation of the qualitative questionnaire for semi-structured interviews. We plan to launch the study in fall 2022 and run it through March 2023. Our goal is to complete an academic paper by May 2023 for conference and academic journal submissions.
- Jeannine E. Relly (Lead), Professor and Director of Global Initiatives, University of Arizona School of Journalism and School of Government and Public Policy
- Monica Chadha (Lead), Associate Professor and Affiliated Faculty, University of Arizona School of Journalism, Center for Border & Global Journalism
- Maha Nassar, Associate Professor and Affiliated Faculty, University of Arizona School of Middle East and North African Studies, Center for Middle Eastern Studies
- Safa Ajlan, Professor, University of Aden, Yemen, Department of Media & Communication Science