@article{BelitskiGuentherKritikosetal.2021,
  author    = {Belitski, Maksim and Guenther, Christina and Kritikos, Alexander and Thurik, Adriaan R.},
  title     = {Economic effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on entrepreneurship and small businesses},
  series = {Small business economics},
  volume    = {58},
  journal   = {Small business economics},
  number    = {2},
  publisher = {Springer Science + Business Media B.V.},
  address   = {Dordrecht},
  issn      = {0921-898X},
  doi       = {10.1007/s11187-021-00544-y},
  pages     = {593 -- 609},
  year      = {2021},
  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.},
  language  = {en}
}