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Economic Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Entrepreneurship and Small Businesses

Referierte Aufsätze Web of Science

Maksim Belitski, Christina Guenther, Alexander S. Kritikos, Roy Thurik

In: Small Business Economics 58 (2022), 2, S.593–609

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.

Topics: Firms, Health



JEL-Classification: C14;H43;L25;L26;J68
Keywords: Small businesses, Entrepreneurs, COVID-19 pandemic, Economic effects
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11187-021-00544-y

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