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🎙️ Welcome to "Revise and Resubmit"! 🚀
This is the place where big ideas meet big questions, where research steps off the page and into your imagination. 📚✨
Some papers quietly whisper. Others speak with a steady voice.
And some—like the one we explore today—knock at the door, urgent, timely, impossible to ignore. 👂🚪
Today’s journey takes us to Jordan, a land caught between innovation and upheaval, where entrepreneurs build dreams while the world shifts under their feet. 🌍💡 What happens when new ventures face an unprecedented social wave—when the sudden arrival of thousands of Syrian refugees reshapes the market itself?
The paper we’re diving into is titled:
📝 "Refugees at the door: Initial funding partners and new venture performance in a changing emerging market" — published 11 August 2025 in the prestigious Strategic Management Journal 📖✨ — yes, that’s right, an FT50 powerhouse in the world of business research!
Written by Ryan Coles, Shon R. Hiatt, Grady W. Raines, and Wesley D. Sine and published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd, this study asks a deceptively simple question: Does where your first dollar comes from—family or bank—determine if your business sinks or swims when the tides of change rise? 🌊💰
Bank-funded ventures, guided by a market logic, seemed to seize opportunity when challenges came. Family-funded ones, driven by deep kinship ties, found the same disruption harder to survive. But why? Is it the money, the mindset, or the unseen values that steer decisions in the storm? 🌪️💭
💌 A heartfelt thank you to the authors and the publisher for bringing this important, timely, and globally relevant work into the world.
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Because after all…
If your venture is standing at the door, and change is knocking, will you invite it in—or bolt the locks? 🔑🤔
Reference
Coles, R., Hiatt, S. R., Raines, G. W., & Sine, W. D. (2025). Refugees at the door: Initial funding partners and new venture performance in a changing emerging market. Strategic Management Journal, 1–48. https://doi.org/10.1002/smj.3741
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