Small and medium sized enterprises and the COVID-19 response : global perspectives on entrepreneurial crisis management / edited by Hamid Etemad.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Edward Elgar Publishing, publisher.

Etemad, Hamid, editor.

Series:

New Horizons in International Entrepreneurship

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Small business--Management.

Small business.

Crisis management.

COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-2023.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (454 pages)

Place of Publication:

London, England ; Northampton, Massachusetts : Edward Elgar Publishing, [2022]

Summary:

"The international cast of authors in this important book explore how internationalizing small and medium sized enterprises 'iSMEs' face major crises, such as COVID-19, and have managed them to reach a stable and desired state post-crisis. Chapter orientations vary from theoretical to empirical. Each focuses on issues related to a major crisis, and present already-deployed success strategies in 14 different country environments. The rich diversity of chapters offers a highly significant and timely contribution to the field. This book consists of five parts. An introduction to the volume and an extensive literature review open the book and are followed in Part II by general, yet critical, topics such as firm capabilities, resources and orientations, which collectively influence how smaller firms perceive emerging, approaching or unfolding crises in their environments and how the national public policy as well as the evolution of the crisis affects them. Part III extends this discussion to look at digitization and servitization for higher customer and market-orientation, supply chains and overall governance. Specific research-based examples of strategies fill out Part IV and the final part offers a view beyond the current crisis. Scholars and students in entrepreneurship, international business and other related areas will find this very timely volume illuminating"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Contents: Preface

Part I: Introduction and literature review

1. Introduction to small and medium sized enterprises and the covid-19 response / Hamid Etemad

2. A systematic literature review of crisis management in and by small and medium-sized enterprises / Aidin Salamzadeh and Léo Paul Dana

Part II: Firms' capabilities, resources and strategic response to perceived crisis within their respective enabling and constraining environments

3. Resources, capabilities and crisis management in the sme / Gary Knight and S. Tamer Cavusgil

4. Kiwi ingenuity and a helping hand: How new zealand's smes are surviving the covid-19 pandemic / Rod B. McNaughton and Deborah Shepherd

5. What policies support smes through the crisis? Financial and innovation support in québec (canada) / Diane-Gabrielle Tremblay and Nathalie Lachapelle

6. Micro-macro dynamics in navigating enduring crises: Empirical illustrations in a volatile institutional context / Sofiane Baba, Taïeb Hafsi and Hind Ouguenoune

Part III: International, national and regional firms' choices of core strategies, including further digitization and 'servitization'

7. The relevance of digital dynamic capabilities and servitization in a crisis management context: Building a business (re)modelling framework for non-digital international entrepreneurial ventures from the Spanish post-covid-19 perspective / Andreu Blesa, Alex Rialp, Josep Rialp and Maria Ripollés

8. The covid-19 crisis and Italian firms: Digitalization, internationalization, and global value chain reconfiguration / Valerio Veglio and Rubina Romanello

9. Decision-making in colombian b corps during the covid-19 crisis / Vinciane Servantie, Sebastian L. Schorch and Luz Elena Orozco Collazos

10. The covid-19 pandemic and the intention to export: A study of small brazilian entrepreneurial firms / Angela da Rocha, Clarice S. Kogut, Luiza Fonseca and Renato Cotta de Mello

11. The impact of covid-19 on Malaysian smes and policy responses / Sedigheh Moghavvemi and Huda Mahmoud

Part IV: Deploying increased customer and market orientation and innovative customization strategies for international growth to counteract potential stagnation and possible demise

12. Survival strategies of Finnish smes in the time of global crisis / Sami Saarenketo, Olli Kuivalainen, Lasse Torkkeli, Akseli Isotalo and Alexander Myers

13. The competitiveness of internationalizing sme suppliers during and after covid-19 / Yi Wang and Tage Koed Madsen

14. Covid-19 crisis challenges and responses: Evidence from selected greek smes / Pavlos Dimitratos and Panagiotis Kyriakopoulos

15. Customer-oriented manufacturing as a resilience strategy for norwegian small international manufacturers / Ottar Bakås, Arild Aspelund and Øystein Moen

Part V: A window to the future: Learning from the past and exploring implications and lessons of previous Chapters

16. Averting or avoiding a crisis: Innovate or decline / Sorin Cohn-Sfetcu, Hamed Motaghi and Julie Ricard

17. Learning from the past and exploring implications and lessons of previous Chapters / Hamid Etemad

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Etemad, Hamid Small and Medium Sized Enterprises and the COVID-19 Response

ISBN:

9781802205770