Entrepreneurship and Disability

Anica Zeyen is a Professor in Entrepreneurship and Inclusion at the School of Business and Management, Royal Holloway University of London (UK). She earned her undergraduate degree in Germany and holds a Master’s degree from the University of Queensland (Australia), where she was listed on the Dean’s Honour Role. Anica completed her PhD with summa cum laude from Leuphana University Lueneburg (Germany) in 2014. After obtaining her PhD, she joined Royal Holloway as a Lecturer in Strategy and Sustainability in January 2015, was promoted to Senior Lecturer in 2018, and became a full professor in 2023. Oana Branzei is the Paul MacPherson Chair in Strategic Leadership and Professor of Strategy and Sustainability at the Ivey Business School at Western University in Canada. She is also the founding Director of the HBA Sustainability Certificate program and the Master of Science Graduate Diploma in Sustainability; the founder, convener and host of PhD Sustainability Academy, an annual event of the Alliance for Research on Corporate Sustainability; and co-founder of the recently inaugurated virtual-based and accessible Spring Institute. Ivey’s champion for the United Nations’ Principles for Responsible Education for a decade (2010- 2019), Oana has pioneered the ESG and SDG case curations and global conversations for Ivey Publishing. Oana is currently cross-appointed with Western University’s Centre for Climate Change, Sustainable Livelihoods and Health. She leads the Regenerator, a campus-wide accelerator for regenerative ventures. Oana also heads her own global Regeneration lab, originally formed with funding from her 2010 Early Researcher Award, and currently featuring collaborations with rapid-response research teams tackling grand challenges on five continents.

1. Introduction – Disability, Entrepreneurship, and Stigma 2. Disability Stigma - An Overview 3. Dignity Entrepreneuring against Disability (Self)-Stigma 4. Necessity Entrepreneurship: Tackling Disability Stigma through Bricolage 5. Community Entrepreneurship as Disability Allyship 6. Fiercely Self-Compassionate Entrepreneurship vs. Autism Stigma 7. Fighting Disability Stigma Through Social Entrepreneurship 8. Institutional Entrepreneurship vs. Concussion 9. Disability Entrepreneurship as Manifesting Self to System Change 10. Our Manifesto on Disability Inclusion