Open AccessImpact of COVID-19 on Nepalese Small and Medium Enterprises
Author(s) -
Jeetendra Dangol,
Sunil Chitrakar,
Kee-Seon Yoo
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
journal of business and social science research/journal of business and social sciences research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2631-2433
pISSN - 2542-2812
DOI - 10.3126/jbssr.v5i2.35230
Subject(s) - likert scale , covid-19 , government (linguistics) , safeguarding , internal consistency , business , scale (ratio) , marketing , psychology , medicine , geography , nursing , linguistics , philosophy , disease , cartography , pathology , infectious disease (medical specialty) , patient satisfaction , developmental psychology
This study seeks to explore the impact of COVID-19 on Nepalese SMEs. This study is based on 41 respondents from Nepalese SMEs, conducted in the first two weeks of August 2020. The questionnaires are developed in 4-point Likert scale on five major areas: current business challenges, firm’s respond to COVID-19, social response, SMEs’ perception on post COVID-19 and government’s response to COVID-19. The questionnaires are pretested for content validity and found internal consistency of instruments. The study used mean, standard deviation, and match t-test. The Nepalese SMEs give importance to social response, followed by firm’s response to COVID-19 and current business challenges. However, Nepalese SMEs are unsatisfied with the government’s response to COVID-19 and the role of government is inevitable in safeguarding SMEs.