Act or Wait-and-See? Adversity, Agility, and Entrepreneur Wellbeing across Countries during the COVID-19 Pandemic
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Stephan U, Zbierowski P, Pérez-Luño A, Wach D, Wiklund J, Alba Cabañas M, Barki E, Benzari A, Bernhard-Oettel C, Boekhorst JA, Dash A, Efendic A, Eib C, Hanard PJ, Iakovleva T, Kawakatsu S, Khalid S, Leatherbee M, Li J, Parker SK, Qu J, Rosati F, Sahasranamam S, Salusse MAY, Sekiguchi T, Thomas N, Torrès O, Tran MH, Ward MK, Williamson AJ, Zahid MM., Act or Wait-and-See? Adversity, Agility, and Entrepreneur Wellbeing across Countries during the COVID-19 Pandemic, Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, 47, 3, 2023, 682 - 723Download Item:
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How can entrepreneurs protect their wellbeing during a crisis? Does engaging agility (namely, opportunity agility and planning agility) in response to adversity help entrepreneurs safeguard their wellbeing? Activated by adversity, agility may function as a specific resilience mechanism enabling positive adaption to crisis. We studied 3162 entrepreneurs from 20 countries during the COVID-19 pandemic and found that more severe national lockdowns enhanced firm-level adversity for entrepreneurs and diminished their wellbeing. Moreover, entrepreneurs who combined opportunity agility with planning agility experienced higher wellbeing but planning agility alone lowered wellbeing. Entrepreneur agility offers a new agentic perspective to research on entrepreneur wellbeing.
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Author: Perez-Luno, Ana
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Inclusive Society , Entrepreneurship, innovation , Human Resource Management , Strategic management, strategy and marketingDOI:
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