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Ro, Eunki. Settling in half brother’s country through entrepreneurship: North Korean refugee entrepreneurs in South Korea. Retrieved from https://doi.org/doi:10.7282/t3-6ej3-1p12

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TitleSettling in half brother’s country through entrepreneurship: North Korean refugee entrepreneurs in South Korea
NameRo, Eunki (author); Baker, Ted (chair); Kim, Jerry (member); Powell, Erin (member); Kim, Suntae (member); Rutgers University; Graduate School - Newark
Date Created2022
Other Date2022-05 (degree)
SubjectManagement, Refugees -- South Korea -- Economic conditions, Entrepreneurship -- South Korea
Extent184 pages
DescriptionI conducted a longitudinal field study of 13 North Korean Refugee (NKR)-run firms in South Korea to understand how and why founders deal differently, in terms of the patterning of their entrepreneurship, with drastic disruptions caused by their relocation. These relocations breach the most common social psychological sources of identity. I discovered that the newcomers, who came to understand that they are seen as members of a lower status group by most people in their new society, reacted in distinctly different ways to cope with the negative distinctiveness of their new status. They used their businesses as vehicles to improve their status in patterned ways, seeking aspirational identities they constructed by drawing differently upon salient identities from their past, present, and future. My findings provide valuable insights into how founders may draw upon their entire life in constructing “who I want to be” when their circumstances severely disrupt prior identities. Bridging founder identity theory, which builds on two prominent social psychological theories of identity, and narrative construction of identity perspectives, I inducted a process model that contributes to our understanding of how and why differences in people’s coping strategies around identity and status discontinuities shape their entrepreneurship toward creating a sense of continuity and coherence in their lives. In a world characterized by substantial numbers of refugees and flows of emigrants seeking something better, the process I describe helps to explain responses to such dramatic disruptions in life and extends founder identity theory toward a richer understanding of the role of narrative processes in constructing founder identities.
NotePh.D.
NoteIncludes bibliographical references
Genretheses
Persistent URLhttps://doi.org/doi:10.7282/t3-6ej3-1p12
LanguageEnglish
CollectionGraduate School - Newark Electronic Theses and Dissertations
Organization NameRutgers, The State University of New Jersey
RightsThe author owns the copyright to this work.
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