Crisis Planning in Small Businesses:: Importance, Impetus and Indifference

By John E. Spillan, M. Hough. 2003

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Special issue on entrepreneurship and crises: business as usual? An introduction and review of the literature (2018, methodology): “Surveys have been used to investigate whether small businesses have experienced a crisis, had crisis management plans or teams in place (Spillan and Hough 2003; Herbane 2013), or crises have affected small business 1. pre-crisis or incubation 2. event 3. crisis response…”
Startups in times of crisis – A rapid response to the COVID-19 pandemic (2020, unknown): “Crisis management is employed to minimize the impacts of a crisis (Spillan & Hough, 2003) and, if done well, can quickly restore functionality to organizations suffering from the effects of disrupted or weakened systems (Williams et al., 2017) .”
Small tourist firms in rural areas: agility, vulnerability and survival in the face of crisis (2004, background): “The liability of newness (Spillan and Hough, 2003) and the fragility of smallness are at their greatest in times of crisis and disaster.”
Small business research: Time for a crisis-based view (2010, background): “Runyan (2006) and Spillan and Hough (2003) represent two isolated examples of research projects that have examined crisis planning in small firms to a greater extent than merely identifying the presence of a plan among a large sample of respondents.”