Open AccessCovid Impact on Small Business
Author(s) -
Stavros Kalogiannidis
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
international journal of social science and economics invention
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2455-6289
DOI - 10.23958/ijssei/vol06-i12/257
Subject(s) - pandemic , covid-19 , business , supply chain , government (linguistics) , small business , shut down , coronavirus , finance , marketing , virology , engineering , medicine , linguistics , philosophy , disease , pathology , nuclear engineering , outbreak , infectious disease (medical specialty) , biology
The sudden attack of COVID-19 has affected human lives and economies to a great extent. The lockdown and restrictions taken as measures by the government to stop the spread of the coronavirus are responsible to shut down many small businesses permanently. In this paper, we will get an idea of how the pandemic has affected small businesses. The world witnessed the largest fall in the number of active businesses. The supply chain got affected due to this and as a result, this affected global trade. Research shows that the impact of the pandemic on the small business and employees have changed the overall business policies facing economic imbalance.