The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has affected countless businesses, leading to serious
disruptions for many industries. Drawing on the resilience literature, this study offers an …

Economic crises, natural disasters, armed conflict and infectious disease outbreaks,
amongst others, present interlinked challenges for small businesses and have generated a …

COVID-19 is unique in the severity of its impact as it is a humanitarian disaster that has
caused both a supply and a demand shock to the global economic system. It has …

The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic has seen the implementation of unprecedented social
distancing measures, restricting social interaction and with it the possibility for conducting …

Disasters kill, maim, and generate increasingly large economic losses. But they do not
wreak their damage equally across populations, and every disaster has social dimensions at …

This paper compares economic recovery in the COVID-19 pandemic with other types of
disasters, at the scale of businesses. As countries around the world struggle to emerge from …

This manuscript studies the impact of the exogenous COVID-19 pandemic shock on small
businesses in the United States. We provide early evidence on how small business owners …

This article uses objective and subjective measures of small business resilience and
multiple categories of social capital pay‐offs to answer two main questions. Does social …

Natural disasters are becoming more frequent and severe and pose a threat to family firms'
survival. It is important to address the rarely examined question of how the variables of …

Small retail businesses are particularly vulnerable to turbulence caused from the COVID‐19
pandemic. To consider what actions retailer owners/managers can take to maneuver during …