Nature breaks for entrepreneurs’ recovery
- May 13
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This research symposium presented at the Academy of Management Conference explores the impact of biophilia on work by bringing together researchers. Our study is in partnership with entrepreneurs all over the globe. We presented findings of how entrepreneurs taking nature breaks during work experience this in distinct ways, creating recovery profiles.
Symposium title: The Biophilia Effect: Innovative Management With Nature in Mind
Symposium organizers: Lin Jiang, J. Jeffrey Gish, Elizabeth Embry, Ian Siderits
Symposium overview: While management research has traditionally focused on how companies influence the natural environments, this symposium proposes that it is equally important to explore the reverse: can natural environments also exert a significant impact on companies? This shift in perspective can encourage management scholars to rethink management with nature in mind, examining how natural environments can influence organizations and their employees. Promising evidence has emerged to suggest that contact with nature can influence employees’ work efforts, novel thinking, task performance, and wellbeing. Despite the recent progress, many important questions remain unanswered. The presentations in this symposium aim to address those questions that can be of substantial interest to various divisions within the Academy of Management.
Citation: Gish, J.J., Stephan, U., Carr, J., Lassu, R.A., Burrows, S., Pollack, J. (2024). Introspection While Outdoors: Nature Interventions as Real-time Recovery for Entrepreneurs. Academy of Management Annual Meeting. 9-13 August, 2024. Chicago, IL.
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