STRATEGIC ENTRENEURSHIP DURING CRISES

Should I stay or should I go? Organizational resilience of Italian SMEs companies during COVID-19 lockdown.

Francesco Calza, Adele Parmentola, Ilaria Tutore

COVID-19 pandemic, more than previous external shocks, hit all the business without geographic borders. Italy has been the first in Europe experimenting the diffusion of the virus that exposed the economic vulnerability of its companies, especially SMEs, that operates in non-essential business that faced challenges of quickly shutdown. Our paper aims at identifying and describing different profile of resilient companies, to understand different approach to pandemic crisis.

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