TY  - JOUR
A1  - Drăgan, George Bogdan
A1  - Ben Arfi, Wissal
A1  - Tiberius, Victor
A1  - Ammari, Aymen
T1  - Gravitating exogenous shocks to the next normal through entrepreneurial coopetive interactions
BT  - a PLS-SEM and fsQCA approach
JF  - Journal of business research
N2  - Purpose: Entrepreneurship can be viewed as an individual or group pursuit of market opportunities irrespective of the context. But when an exogenous shock alters and permanently alters the known normal, entrepreneurs can do no more than cope with the immediate impact. Covid-19 changed the normal for every-one, and the current study aims to analyse how the pandemic changed the context and entrepreneurial perspective of business owners geographically located in different cultural environments. Various experiences impacted them as they tried to navigate and mitigate the effects of the crisis on the wider economy and their business. We seek to identify the probable relevant entrepreneurial configurations in which one or more combinations of antecedent conditions are needed to cause entrepreneurs to adapt their behavior in order to increase their coopetitive interactions further, to mitigate the effects of the crisis.Originality: To the best of our knowledge, this is the first empirical study to address an entrepreneurial phenomenon using an integrative approach using PLS-SEM and fsQCA as separate prediction-oriented methods in order to validate the proposed conceptual model and to create a preliminary scaffolding for building the Theory of Unplanned Behavior in a crisis context.
KW  - entrepreneurial coopetitive interactions
KW  - entrepreneurial behavior
KW  - PLS-SEM
KW  - fsQCA
KW  - next normal
KW  - theory of unplanned behavior
Y1  - 2023
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusres.2022.113627
SN  - 0148-2963
VL  - 157
PB  - Elsevier
CY  - New York
ER  -