Masters of disasters? Challenges and opportunities for SMEs in times of crisis

F Eggers - Journal of business Research, 2020 - Elsevier
Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are the backbone of every economy. So, when
an external crisis jeopardizes markets, such as the recent COVID-19 outbreak, SMEs are hit …

SMEs and exogenous shocks: A conceptual literature review and forward research agenda

J Miklian, K Hoelscher - International Small Business Journal, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
Economic crises, natural disasters, armed conflict and infectious disease outbreaks,
amongst others, present interlinked challenges for small businesses and have generated a …

SMEs and digital transformation during a crisis: The emergence of resilience as a second-order dynamic capability in an entrepreneurial ecosystem

I Khurana, DK Dutta, AS Ghura - Journal of Business Research, 2022 - Elsevier
In this research, we examine how small and medium enterprises (SMEs) build their
resilience capability during a crisis, through the adoption of digital technologies. Utilizing a …

[HTML][HTML] Hop to it! The impact of organization type on innovation response time to the COVID-19 crisis

B Ebersberger, A Kuckertz - Journal of Business Research, 2021 - Elsevier
The COVID-19 pandemic has led to a changing environment posing many challenges that
call for innovative solutions, leading to a changing innovation landscape. We explore …

Turning lead into gold: How do entrepreneurs mobilize resources to exploit opportunities?

DR Clough, TP Fang, B Vissa, A Wu - Academy of Management …, 2019 - journals.aom.org
The mobilization of resources is a central and defining feature of entrepreneurship. As the
body of empirical research on entrepreneurial resource mobilization has grown, the …

Explaining the revival strategies of Indian MSMEs to mitigate the effects of COVID-19 outbreak

S Singh, P Chamola, V Kumar, P Verma… - … An International Journal, 2023 - emerald.com
Purpose Micro, small and medium enterprise (MSME) is the kingpin of Indian economy. It
contributes to 48% of India's exports and provides employment to 110 million people. As a …

[HTML][HTML] When the rainy day is the worst hurricane ever: the effects of governmental policies on SMEs during COVID-19

Y Belghitar, A Moro, N Radić - Small Business Economics, 2022 - Springer
We investigate the impact of COVID-19 on 42,401 UK SMEs and how government
intervention affects their capability to survive the pandemic. The results show that, without …

Enhancing international marketing capability and export performance of emerging market SMEs in crises: strategic flexibility and digital technologies

N Zahoor, YK Lew - International Marketing Review, 2023 - emerald.com
Purpose This study investigates to what extent strategic flexibility of international strategic
alliances (ISAs) affects export performance of emerging market small and medium-sized …

We survived this! What managers could learn from SMEs who successfully navigated the Greek economic crisis

E Kottika, A Özsomer, P Rydén, IG Theodorakis… - Industrial Marketing …, 2020 - Elsevier
Small and medium size enterprises in both business to business and consumer markets are
particularly vulnerable to economic downturns. Concentrating on the Greek economic crisis …

Benefiting from economic crisis? Strategic orientation effects, trade-offs, and configurations with resource availability on SME performance

T Beliaeva, G Shirokova, W Wales… - … and Management Journal, 2020 - Springer
While there is growing interest in exploring strategic orientations, their interaction, and
impact on firm performance, most research has been conducted within stable economic …