Economic effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on entrepreneurship and small businesses

Maksim Belitski (), Christina Guenther (), Alexander Kritikos and Roy Thurik
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Maksim Belitski: University of Reading, Henley Business School
Christina Guenther: WHU, Otto Beisheim School of Management

Small Business Economics, 2022, vol. 58, issue 2, No 1, 593-609

Abstract: Abstract 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.

Keywords: Small businesses; Entrepreneurs; COVID-19 pandemic; Economic effects; C14; H43; L25; L26; J68 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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