Designing a Resilience Model for Start-Ups: A Path to Startups Foresight

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

1 PhD student in Organizational Entrepreneurship, Islamic Azad University, Qazvin Branch

2 New Business Department, Faculty of Entrepreneurship, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran

3 Faculty member of the Faculty of Entrepreneurship, University of Tehran

Abstract

Purpose: Resilience in start-ups is a challenging issue that has caught the attention of policymakers and business owners. The present study is an attempt to provide a model for designing the resilience model of start-up businesses as a path to the future of start-up businesses.
Method: This research is practical in terms of purpose and from the perspective of data collection is a qualitative research that has been done by content analysis method. The data collection method is semi-structured interview. Interviews with participants continued until they reached the theoretical saturation point, which was achieved by conducting 15 interviews. Participants were selected by snowball and purposeful method and data analysis was done through three coding steps (open, axial, selective) with MAXQDA2020 software.
Findings: Based on the research results, the components of "cognitive resilience, financial resilience, adaptive resilience" as well as the effective organizational factors of "precedent, drivers and boys and resilience consequences" were identified. In this research, foresight and futures studies were identified as the drivers of resilience of start-up businesses.
Conclusion: Resilience enables businesses to respond effectively to the dynamic conditions of their environment and maximize their competencies through strategic foresight and as a result gain more value than their competitors in the field of business. In this regard, the integration of foresight in the process of business resilience can be suggested as a facilitator of drivers.

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Journal of Iran Futures Studies
Volume 7, Issue 2 - Serial Number 13
January 2023
Pages 155-179

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