From Fragility to Resilience—How Prepared Was the Romanian Business Environment to Face the COVID-19 Crisis?

Suzana Demyen
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Suzana Demyen: Department of Business Administration–Reșița, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Babeș Bolyai University, 320085 Reșița, Romania

JRFM, 2022, vol. 15, issue 2, 1-17

Abstract: The issue of business resilience is a topical one, in the context of which a large number of the companies on the market have faced many challenges in the last two years, raising the issue of market survival. But was the Romanian business environment ready to face the COVID-19 crisis? How prepared is it to continue to face the obstacles posed by the pandemic? The purpose of this paper is to identify the main effects that the pandemic has generated on Romanian SMEs, while presenting the results of a study on this topic. We proceeded to determine the level of familiarity of respondents on the evolution of SMEs during the pandemic and the study of their level of interest, on the effects generated by the current epidemiological context, and on the evolution of the business environment, while analysing the level of optimism/pessimism of the respondents, regarding the general evolution of the Romanian business environment. Although some companies are open to implementing change, there is also a significant percentage of firms that, for various reasons, do not consider making major changes in the near future, either because they are not aware of the need for change or out of fear.

Keywords: resilience; SMEs; COVID-19; risk; business environment (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C E F2 F3 G (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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