La Chaire « Entrepreneurship & Disabilities »
The core objectives of the Chair in Entrepreneurship and Disabilities are for business and social organisations, entrepreneurs, and scholars of business and management to...
The core objectives of the Chair in Entrepreneurship and Disabilities are for business and social organisations, entrepreneurs, and scholars of business and management to...
La Chaire « Entrepreneurship & Disabilities »
The core objectives of the Chair in Entrepreneurship and Disabilities are for business and social organisations, entrepreneurs, and scholars of business and management to:
- 1) Engage and collaborate with entrepreneurs with disabilities who possess characteristics and attributes that may address ongoing organisational needs, such as for novel, creative approaches in solving persistent management issues
- 2) Understand how organisations may be able to launch successful ventures without the typical experience of failure when bringing new ventures to the market.
These objectives are based on learning how entrepreneurs with disabilities have been able to create economic and social value from their ventures with few external resources.
For entrepreneurship scholars, the promise of this Chair is in building knowledge of opportunity creation by revealing the processes in which entrepreneurs with severe physical and/or cognitive disabilities have been able to create or discover entrepreneurial opportunities because of their disabilities. Accordingly, the overarching questions of the Chair are, firstly, in exploring how the disabilities of entrepreneurs may relate to their creativity, and secondly, in investigating whether, and in what ways, the experience of sudden or lifelong disability may 'trigger' the creation of certain types of opportunities with high economic and/or social value.
A direct consequence of the research under the Chair would be to generate immediate opportunities for organizations to employ disabled people with particular skills and attributes that may be drawn on to create economic and social value.
For entrepreneurship scholars, the promise of this Chair is in building knowledge of opportunity creation by revealing the processes in which entrepreneurs with severe physical and/or cognitive disabilities have been able to create or discover entrepreneurial opportunities because of their disabilities. Accordingly, the overarching questions of the Chair are, firstly, in exploring how the disabilities of entrepreneurs may relate to their creativity, and secondly, in investigating whether, and in what ways, the experience of sudden or lifelong disability may 'trigger' the creation of certain types of opportunities with high economic and/or social value.
A direct consequence of the research under the Chair would be to generate immediate opportunities for organizations to employ disabled people with particular skills and attributes that may be drawn on to create economic and social value.
