Special issue on entrepreneurship and crises: business as usual? An introduction and review of the literature

By Rachel R. Doern, Nick Williams, Tim Vorley. Entrepreneurship and Regional Development, 2018

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ABSTRACT 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 around how we have come to understand the relationship between entrepreneurship and crises through the application of certain crisis definitions, concepts, typologies, the crisis event sequence, methodologies and empirical settings. It also examines how crises affect entrepreneurship and how entrepreneurship affects crises. The article then introduces in some detail the five manuscripts selected for the special issue and the contributions they make towards developing our understanding of the relationship between entrepreneurship and crises. It notes the advances, gaps and opportunities that emerge from the literature review and special issue papers, and concludes with a way forward for developing further our understanding in this area.

Subfields: Accounting, Management of Technology and Innovation, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management

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In Accounting

1. Alfredo De Massis
2. Jonas Soluk
3. A. Rocha
4. Ross Brown
5. Nadine H. Kammerlander

In Management of Technology and Innovation

1. Alfredo De Massis
2. Jonas Soluk
3. Nadine H. Kammerlander
4. A. Rocha
5. Ross Brown
6. Federico Frattini

In Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management

1. Alfredo De Massis
2. Jonas Soluk
3. Nadine H. Kammerlander
4. Vera Nur Aini Oktaviani Putri
5. Ross Brown
6. Abdul Moin
7. Anjar Priyono
8. Federico Frattini

Citations in the corpus

• Entrepreneurial uncertainty during the Covid-19 crisis: Mapping the temporal dynamics of entrepreneurial finance (2020, background): “In recent years, a number of studies have utilised this comprehensive and real-time sources of data to examine emerging trends within entrepreneurial finance (Cumming et al., 2019), including how VC levels were affected by shocks such as the GFC and the Covid-19 crisis (see Block and Sandner, 2009).”
• Exogenous shocks and the adaptive capacity of family firms: exploring behavioral changes and digital technologies in the COVID‐19 pandemic (2021, background): “By revealing how drastic and survival- threatening the impact of exogenous shocks is for businesses, we find empirical support for phenomena (such as financial crises or major terrorist attacks) described by prior studies in this field (Smallbone et al., 2012; Corbo et al., 2016; Doern et al., 2018)”
• Identifying Digital Transformation Paths in the Business Model of SMEs during the COVID-19 Pandemic (2020, background): “business models in response to this environmental uncertainty [5].”