This article reviews the literature on entrepreneurship and crises, capturing where we have
been and where we are now, and begins to discuss where we might go next. It centres …

When and how do existential crises, threatening business continuity, stimulate
organizational change or cause the opposite—rigid preservation of established business …

Research summary The discovery of the coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) and the spread of
COVID-19 have led many governments to take drastic measures. The lockdown of large …

The COVID-19 pandemic has delivered one of the worst economic shocks in modern history
and the hospitality sector has been severely affected. Since small businesses from the …

Building on work that associates organizational resilience with crisis recovery and strategic
renewal, I examine how small-and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) vary in the …

We know that small businesses are vulnerable to crisis, however little is still known about
how they cope during long crisis as the COVID-19 pandemic. This paper provides a …

This manuscript studies the impact of the exogenous COVID-19 pandemic shock on small
businesses in the United States. We provide early evidence on how small business owners …

This article examines the impact of a crisis on small firms. Taking a phenomenological
research approach, qualitative interviews were conducted to capture the experiences of …

Small business and crisis management research are two established but largely uncoupled
domains of study. Given the economic importance and vulnerability of a small businesses …

The ability of business owners/managers to think strategically in the midst of a crisis is a key
factor in an organisation's long-term survival, but at present there is very little advice …