Economic effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on entrepreneurship and small businesses
Экономические последствия пандемии COVID-19 для предпринимательства и малого бизнеса
2021-09-12
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The existential threat to small businesses, based on their crucial role in the economy, is behind the plethora of scholarly studies in 2020, the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic. Examining the 15 contributions of the special issue on the "Economic effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on entrepreneurship and small businesses," the paper comprises four parts: a systematic review of the literature on the effect on entrepreneurship and small businesses; a discussion of four literature strands based on this review; an overview of the contributions in this special issue; and some ideas for post-pandemic economic research.
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A systematic literature review identifies four major research strands concerning pandemic impacts on entrepreneurship and small businesses.
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The paper proposes directions for post-pandemic economic research on entrepreneurship and small businesses.
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The paper reviews 15 studies examining COVID-19’s economic effects on entrepreneurship and small businesses during the pandemic’s first year.
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The special issue’s contributions collectively address the existential threat COVID-19 posed to small businesses because of their central economic role.
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Entrepreneurship and small businesses affected by the COVID-19 pandemic
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the economic effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on entrepreneurship and small businesses
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