TY  - JOUR
A1  - Belitski, Maksim
A1  - Guenther, Christina
A1  - Kritikos, Alexander
A1  - Thurik, Adriaan R.
T1  - Economic effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on entrepreneurship and small businesses
JF  - Small business economics
N2  - 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.
KW  - small businesses
KW  - entrepreneurs
KW  - COVID-19 pandemic
KW  - economic effects
Y1  - 2021
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1007/s11187-021-00544-y
SN  - 0921-898X
SN  - 1573-0913
VL  - 58
IS  - 2
SP  - 593
EP  - 609
PB  - Springer Science + Business Media B.V.
CY  - Dordrecht
ER  -