Subtopic Deep Dive

Entrepreneurship and Peace
Research Guide

What is Entrepreneurship and Peace?

Entrepreneurship and Peace examines how entrepreneurial activities in conflict-affected regions contribute to peacebuilding through economic recovery, social cohesion, and intergroup collaboration.

Researchers focus on local startups and micro-entrepreneurship models fostering stability in fragile states (Joseph et al., 2022, 50 citations). Key studies analyze business roles in post-conflict settings, with 36 papers identified across provided lists. Topics include inclusion, value creation, and SDG 16 contributions (Joseph and Van Buren, 2021; Gallo et al., 2022).

Curated Papers

Key Challenges

Why It Matters

Local entrepreneurship drives bottom-up peace by empowering communities in fragile states, as shown in reviews of conflict-zone enterprises (Joseph et al., 2022). Micro-businesses like sari-sari stores enhance social cohesion in post-conflict areas (Mamintal et al., 2026). These models inform aid programs, with ex-combatant ventures aiding individual peace (Melin et al., 2025) and COVID recovery fostering intergroup ties (Bojičić-Dželilović et al., 2024).

Key Research Challenges

Paradoxical Stability Impacts

Conflict-zone entrepreneurs can foster peace or exacerbate conflict, lacking clear explanations (Joseph and Van Buren, 2021, 36 citations). Studies highlight paradoxical effects without predictive models. Inclusion and value creation offer partial resolutions.

Overlooking Local Businesses

Business for peace research prioritizes multinationals, ignoring local firms' intergroup dynamics (Joseph et al., 2020, 44 citations). This gap limits understanding of grassroots economic peace roles. Ethnographic studies on informal trade address it partially (Mamintal et al., 2026).

Measuring Peace Contributions

Quantifying entrepreneurship's impact on SDG 16 remains challenging amid post-conflict uncertainties (Gallo et al., 2022, 20 citations). War causes like bargaining failures complicate assessments (Melin et al., 2023). Ex-combatant studies propose individual-level metrics (Melin et al., 2025).

Essential Papers

Entrepreneurship and Peacebuilding: A Review and Synthesis

Jay Joseph, John E. Katsos, Harry J. Van Buren · 2022 · Business & Society · 50 citations

Entrepreneurship is the dominant form of enterprise in conflict-affected settings, yet little is known about the role of entrepreneurship in peacebuilding. In response, this article undertakes a re...

Local Business, Local Peace? Intergroup and Economic Dynamics

Jay Joseph, John E. Katsos, Mariam Daher · 2020 · Journal of Business Ethics · 44 citations

Abstract The field of “business for peace” recognizes the role that businesses can play in peacebuilding. However, like much of the discussion concerning business in conflict zones, it has prioriti...

Entrepreneurship, Conflict, and Peace: The Role of Inclusion and Value Creation

Jay Joseph, Harry J. Van Buren · 2021 · Business & Society · 36 citations

Conflict zone entrepreneurs—local entrepreneurs running small businesses in conflict settings—have paradoxical impacts on stability: holding the ability both to foster peace but also to enhance con...

Business for peace: How entrepreneuring contributes to Sustainable Development Goal 16

Peter Jack Gallo, Santiago Sosa, Andrés Vélez‐Calle · 2022 · BRQ Business Research Quarterly · 20 citations

We examine entrepreneurial ventures in a post-conflict context to identify practices that are helpful for companies operating in conflict zones while contributing to the United Nations’ Sustainable...

Unethical practices in the Slovak business environment: Entrepreneurs vs. the State?

Anna Remišová, Anna Lašáková · 2020 · Ethics & bioethics · 8 citations

Abstract This paper critically analyses one of the unexpected results of qualitative research aimed at detecting the presence of unethical business practices in Slovakia. The authors seek to find o...

War and International Business: Insights from Political Science

Molly M. Melin, Santiago Sosa, Andrés Vélez‐Calle et al. · 2023 · AIB Insights · 5 citations

How might businesses foster peace? We borrow insights from political science on the causes of war to guide IB scholarly research. We analyze war as a bargaining failure and present five causes of w...

The individual peace: Ex-combatants, entrepreneurship, and peacebuilding

Molly M. Melin, Santiago Sosa, Sofía Montoya · 2025 · Business Horizons · 1 citations

Reading Guide

Foundational Papers

No pre-2015 papers available; start with highest-cited review by Joseph, Katsos, and Van Buren (2022, 50 citations) for synthesis of entrepreneurship in conflict settings.

Recent Advances

Melin et al. (2025) on ex-combatants; Bojičić-Dželilović et al. (2024) on COVID recovery collaboration; Mamintal et al. (2026) on women-managed micro-economies.

Core Methods

Literature reviews (Joseph et al., 2022); qualitative intergroup dynamics (Joseph et al., 2020); ethnographic studies (Mamintal et al., 2026); political science-informed analysis (Melin et al., 2023).

How PapersFlow Helps You Research Entrepreneurship and Peace

Discover & Search

Research Agent uses searchPapers and citationGraph to map 50-citation review by Joseph et al. (2022), revealing clusters around local peace dynamics. exaSearch uncovers related works like Melin et al. (2025) on ex-combatants. findSimilarPapers expands from Joseph et al. (2020) to intergroup studies.

Analyze & Verify

Analysis Agent applies readPaperContent to extract practices from Gallo et al. (2022), then verifyResponse with CoVe checks claims against Joseph et al. (2021). runPythonAnalysis with pandas quantifies citation overlaps across 36 papers. GRADE grading scores evidence strength for peace metrics.

Synthesize & Write

Synthesis Agent detects gaps in local vs. multinational focus from Joseph et al. (2020, 2022), flagging contradictions via exportMermaid diagrams. Writing Agent uses latexEditText, latexSyncCitations for 10-paper reviews, and latexCompile for polished manuscripts on micro-entrepreneurship.

Use Cases

"Analyze citation networks of entrepreneurship in post-conflict recovery from Joseph papers."

Research Agent → citationGraph on Joseph et al. (2022) → Analysis Agent → runPythonAnalysis (pandas network stats) → researcher gets centrality metrics and key influencer papers.

"Draft LaTeX review on sari-sari stores as peace micro-economies."

Synthesis Agent → gap detection on Mamintal et al. (2026) → Writing Agent → latexEditText + latexSyncCitations (9 papers) + latexCompile → researcher gets formatted PDF with diagrams.

"Find code for modeling intergroup collaboration in peace entrepreneurship."

Research Agent → paperExtractUrls from Bojičić-Dželilović et al. (2024) → paperFindGithubRepo → githubRepoInspect → researcher gets Python scripts for economic shock simulations.

Automated Workflows

Deep Research workflow conducts systematic review of 36 papers starting with searchPapers on 'entrepreneurship peacebuilding,' yielding structured reports with GRADE-scored syntheses from Joseph et al. (2022). DeepScan applies 7-step analysis with CoVe checkpoints to verify peace-positive practices in Gallo et al. (2022). Theorizer generates hypotheses on ex-combatant models from Melin et al. (2025).

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Frequently Asked Questions

What defines Entrepreneurship and Peace?

It studies entrepreneurial activities driving peacebuilding via economic recovery in conflict zones (Joseph et al., 2022).

What methods dominate this subtopic?

Reviews, ethnographies, and case studies of local ventures; e.g., synthesis of conflict entrepreneurship (Joseph et al., 2022) and ethnographic analysis of sari-sari stores (Mamintal et al., 2026).

What are key papers?

Joseph et al. (2022, 50 citations) reviews peacebuilding roles; Joseph et al. (2020, 44 citations) examines local peace dynamics; Gallo et al. (2022, 20 citations) links to SDG 16.

What open problems exist?

Paradoxical conflict impacts unexplained (Joseph and Van Buren, 2021); limited metrics for individual peace via entrepreneurship (Melin et al., 2025); underrepresented women-led initiatives (Munandar, 2025).