Who are my people and what can I do? Community remapping for entrepreneurial venturing after forced migration

Scholarship on post-disruption adaptation largely assumes conditions of partial disruption—situations where despite losing access to one or multiple domains, other important domains remain intact. Yet wholesale disruptions pose a qualitatively different challenge for entrepreneurship. We explore how experiences of wholesale disruption shape actors' reconstruction of their contextual structure, perceived scope of their entrepreneurial possibility space, and the long-term trajectory of their ventures. We conduct an inductive study of the venturing efforts of refugees following their wholesale disruption caused by forced migration to the USA. We develop a grounded theoretical model of community remapping for venturing after wholesale disruption that explains why some refugees enact dynamic, growing ventures while others enact more stable, static ventures and eschew growth aspirations. Our findings and theorizing contribute to literatures on venturing in response to wholesale disruptions and on refugee entrepreneurship.