Act or Wait-and-See? Adversity, Agility, and Entrepreneur Wellbeing across Countries during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

Authors

  • Ute Stephan
  • Przemysław Zbierowski
  • Ana Pérez-Luño
  • Dominika Wach
  • Johan Wiklund
  • Marisleidy Alba Cabañas
  • Edgard Barki
  • Alexandre Benzari
  • Claudia Bernhard-Oettel
  • Janet A. Boekhorst
  • Arobindu Dash
  • Adnan Efendic
  • Constanze Eib
  • Pierre Jean Hanard
  • Tatiana Iakovleva
  • Satoshi Kawakatsu
  • Saddam Khalid
  • Michael Leatherbee
  • Jun Li
  • Sharon K. Parker
  • And 11 others
  • Jingjing Qu
  • Francesco Rosati
  • Sreevas Sahasranamam
  • Marcus A.Y. Salusse
  • Tomoki Sekiguchi
  • Nicola Thomas
  • Olivier Torrès
  • Mi Hoang Tran
  • Michael K. Ward
  • Amanda Jasmine Williamson
  • Muhammad Mohsin Zahid

How can entrepreneurs protect their wellbeing during a crisis? Does engaging agility (namely, opportunity agility and planning agility) in response to adversity help entrepreneurs safeguard their wellbeing? Activated by adversity, agility may function as a specific resilience mechanism enabling positive adaption to crisis. We studied 3162 entrepreneurs from 20 countries during the COVID-19 pandemic and found that more severe national lockdowns enhanced firm-level adversity for entrepreneurs and diminished their wellbeing. Moreover, entrepreneurs who combined opportunity agility with planning agility experienced higher wellbeing but planning agility alone lowered wellbeing. Entrepreneur agility offers a new agentic perspective to research on entrepreneur wellbeing.

Original languageEnglish
JournalEntrepreneurship: Theory and Practice
Volume47
Issue number3
Pages (from-to)682-723
Number of pages42
ISSN1042-2587
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 05.2023

Bibliographical note

Publisher Copyright:
© The Author(s) 2022.

    Research areas

  • adversity, agility, COVID-19 pandemic, crisis, entrepreneurship, life satisfaction, resilience, stress, subjective vitality, wellbeing
  • Management studies

Recently viewed

Publications

  1. Long-term health-related quality of life after decompressive hemicraniectomy in stroke patients with life-threatening space-occupying brain edema
  2. SYMPOSIUM .7. CHANGES IN PUBLIC AND PRIVATE SCHOOLING - INCOMPLETE MODERNIZATION AND CRITIQUE OF MODERNITY - FOREWORD
  3. Sustainability Strategies: What's in a Name?
  4. Media Review
  5. Making Sociological Theories Come Alive
  6. Gibt es eine Wissenschaft des Fremden ?
  7. Schaubilder
  8. Jurisdiction in International Fisheries Law: Evolving Trends and New Challenges
  9. Nutzung und User Experience einer gamifizierten Webanwendung zur Förderung der körperlichen Aktivität im betrieblichen Setting
  10. Das Itinerar der Dinge – Objekte und ihre Ordnung
  11. Identification of an immunodominant H-2Db-restricted CTL epitope of human PSA
  12. Business Model Assessment
  13. Die Zeichen der Zeit erkennen
  14. Communities of ground-living spiders in deciduous forests
  15. Schock und medialer Wandel
  16. Job characteristics
  17. Complexity in Water Management and Governance
  18. Apriorische Gewissheit
  19. Film, oberflächlich simuliert
  20. Den Wandel begreifen
  21. Is it just conservation? A typology of Indigenous peoples’ and local communities’ roles in conserving biodiversity
  22. Social Work and Society
  23. Reviewing the science on 50 years of conservation
  24. ‘Kollegah the Boss’
  25. Breaching the campus
  26. Predicting individual plant performance in grasslands
  27. Society and territory
  28. Rezension zu "Sonia Delaunay - Mode und Design"
  29. #3 Unstable Infrastructures
  30. USA - Südwesten
  31. Driving anger expression in Germany—Validation of the Driving Anger Expression Inventory for German drivers
  32. Simulationsbasierte Optimierung des Umgangs mit Chef-Aufträgen im Produktionsbetrieb
  33. Invertebrate herbivory rather than competition with tussocks will increasingly delay highland forest regeneration in degraded areas under active restoration
  34. Barriers to a sustainability transformation of meat production practices - An industry actor perspective
  35. § 33 Solare Strahlungsenergie an oder auf Gebäuden
  36. Central bank announcements
  37. Multiple goal pursuit
  38. Capitalism with a Transhuman Face
  39. Institutional Logics as orchestras' strategic dilemma
  40. Editoral
  41. Selbstreguliertes Lesen von Texten
  42. Der Himbeerwurm
  43. Ehrliche Erfindungen
  44. Biopolitical bordering
  45. Does pictorial composition guide the eye? Investigating four centuries of last supper pictures