Open AccessCOVID-19 as External Enabler of entrepreneurship practice and research
Author(s) -
Per Davidsson,
Jan Recker,
Frederik von Briel
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
business research quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.995
H-Index - 26
eISSN - 2340-9444
pISSN - 2340-9436
DOI - 10.1177/23409444211008902
Subject(s) - entrepreneurship , enabling , pandemic , covid-19 , resilience (materials science) , psychological resilience , public relations , business , crisis management , emerging markets , knowledge management , political science , sociology , economics , management , psychology , computer science , social psychology , medicine , physics , disease , finance , pathology , infectious disease (medical specialty) , psychotherapist , thermodynamics
For decades, entrepreneurship and strategy research has been dominated by agent-centric and inward-looking theoretical perspectives. The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic demonstrates the limits of this stance, as its influence on business has been both enormous and palpable. For the most part, the effects of the pandemic are no doubt negative. Business research—and presumably business practice—typically address such influence in terms of failure, resilience, and crisis management among existing businesses. Contrasting this prevalent discourse, we focus instead on positive influence of the pandemic for some emerging and new ventures. We analyze the many possible positive effects on entrepreneurship practice and highlight also positive effects on entrepreneurship research. We illustrate both positives by applying the External Enabler framework. JEL CLASSIFICATION: L26, M13, O3, R11