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

Overview

Journal Small Bus Econ (Dordr)

Publisher Springer

Date 2024 Apr 16

PMID 38624899

Authors

Maksim Belitski

Christina Guenther

Alexander S Kritikos

Roy Thurik

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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.

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