Hadjielias Elias, Christofi Michael, Tarba Shlomo
School of Management and Economics, Cyprus University of Technology, 30 Archbishop Kyprianos Street, 3036 Limassol, Cyprus.
Birmingham Business School, University of Birmingham, University House, Edgbaston Park Road, Birmingham, B15 2TY UK.
Small Bus Econ (Dordr). 2022;59(4):1351-1380. doi: 10.1007/s11187-021-00588-0. Epub 2022 Jan 28.
In light of the unprecedented global crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, resilient businesses are those more likely to make the transition to the post-COVID era. Our study draws on the concept of psychological resilience and focusses on individual owner-managers to the end of examining business resilience in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. We conduct a longitudinal qualitative study, collecting data from 35 small business owner-managers between April and December 2020. Our findings-which provide insights into the micro-underpinnings of the resilience exhibited by small business in response to the COVID-19 pandemic-illustrate the responses and resilient qualities of owner-managers at both the personal and leadership levels, which facilitate resilient actions at the small business level. By drawing on a psychological perspective, our study provides a novel conceptualization of small business resilience at the person-role-organization nexus.
鉴于新冠疫情引发的前所未有的全球危机，具有韧性的企业更有可能过渡到后疫情时代。我们的研究借鉴了心理韧性的概念，聚焦个体企业主兼经理，旨在考察新冠疫情背景下的企业韧性。我们开展了一项纵向定性研究，于2020年4月至12月期间收集了35位小企业主兼经理的数据。我们的研究结果——深入洞察了小企业在应对新冠疫情时展现出的韧性的微观基础——阐明了企业主兼经理在个人层面和领导层面的应对方式及韧性特质，这些特质有助于小企业层面的韧性行动。通过从心理学角度进行研究，我们的研究在个人-角色-组织关系层面上对小企业韧性进行了新颖的概念化。
