Turning crises into opportunities: Learning from high growth businesses. Being able to adapt and respond to crises such as the COVID-19 pandemic or bushfires is important for Australia's economic development. This project investigates how crises can be turned into opportunities. It analyses the strategic crises responses of business ventures that managed to defy the odds and to achieve high growth because of crises. The outcomes include an improved understanding of the opportunities crises prese ....Turning crises into opportunities: Learning from high growth businesses. Being able to adapt and respond to crises such as the COVID-19 pandemic or bushfires is important for Australia's economic development. This project investigates how crises can be turned into opportunities. It analyses the strategic crises responses of business ventures that managed to defy the odds and to achieve high growth because of crises. The outcomes include an improved understanding of the opportunities crises present; and actionable, empirically grounded insights into successful crises responses. As such, the project will make significant contributions to core areas of entrepreneurship and management research. It will also help policymakers and entrepreneurs to improve economic resilience and to foster sustainable economic growth.Read moreRead less
High-impact entrepreneurship: routine formation, process and outcomes. This project aims to gain in-depth knowledge of how entrepreneurs create high impact ventures through the adoption of a practice-based approach. The project intends to uncover how routines are formed and developed to establish and sustain the creation of high-impact new ventures. The project expects to make significant contributions to core areas of management and entrepreneurship research, while providing beneficial insights ....High-impact entrepreneurship: routine formation, process and outcomes. This project aims to gain in-depth knowledge of how entrepreneurs create high impact ventures through the adoption of a practice-based approach. The project intends to uncover how routines are formed and developed to establish and sustain the creation of high-impact new ventures. The project expects to make significant contributions to core areas of management and entrepreneurship research, while providing beneficial insights on the impact of government support programs for facilitating high-impact entrepreneurship to ensure policy is effectively designed to foster the success of high-impact new ventures. An in-depth understanding of high-impact entrepreneurship will also help foster innovation-led growth in Australia’s economic development.Read moreRead less
Discovery Early Career Researcher Award - Grant ID: DE170100344
Funder
Australian Research Council
Funding Amount
$328,000.00
Summary
Impact investing and the global diffusion of social stock exchanges. This project aims to examine the establishment and global diffusion of social stock exchanges and assess how such a platform may assist the nascent Australian market for impact investing. Investors and social enterprises struggle to connect, communicate and agree on measures of return. This project will examine the social systems needed to organise and sustain markets. This approach is expected to inform the development of Aust ....Impact investing and the global diffusion of social stock exchanges. This project aims to examine the establishment and global diffusion of social stock exchanges and assess how such a platform may assist the nascent Australian market for impact investing. Investors and social enterprises struggle to connect, communicate and agree on measures of return. This project will examine the social systems needed to organise and sustain markets. This approach is expected to inform the development of Australia’s potential $32 billion market in providing finance to solve social problems.Read moreRead less