1st Edition
Entrepreneurship, Innovation, and Crisis SME Responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic
Entrepreneurship, Innovation, and Crisis: SME Responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic aims to address the conditions for the operations of SMEs during the time of the COVID-19 pandemic as well as the governmental support for entrepreneurs in such industries as tourism, manufacturing, recycling, education, and printing as well as the creative industry.
Through the presentation of various strategies for the functioning and development of companies under crisis conditions along with new management approaches for coping with them, this book discusses the conditions for the operations of SMEs during the time of the COVID-19 pandemic as well as the support for entrepreneurs that has been offered by the governments of different countries.
This approach will allow our results to be useful for a wide audience – making it especially valuable to researchers, academics, policymakers, and advanced students who are interested in crises, entrepreneurship, small and medium-sized enterprises, and strategic management.
Preface
Joanna Duda and Rafał Kusa
1. Small and Medium-sized Enterprises and COVID-19: A European Perspective
Agnieszka Peszko and Marcin Suder
2. Impact of Crisis on SME Creativity and Growth
Joanna Duda, AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland
3. Finland and the COVID-19 Crisis: SMEs and Financial Risks
Erkki K. Laitinen and Teija Laitinen
4. Poland and the COVID-19 Crisis: Strategies of Small Polish Printing Companies
Rafał Kusa, Marcin Suder and Margarita Dunska
5. Estonia and the COVID-19 Crisis: Changes in Markets and Business Models in Tourism Sector
Ülle Pärl, Tiina Viin and Marit Piirman
6. Latvia and the COVID-19 Crisis: Innovation in Electronica Manufacturing
Ilona Baumane-Vītoliņa, Margarita Dunska, Jelena Komele, Mārcis Dzelme and Madara Brenčeva
7. Lithuania and the COVID-19 Crisis: Digitalization, Self-organization, and Creative Industry Ecosystem
Kristina Grumadaite, Jolita Ceicyte, Monika Petraite and Reda Bernotaite
8. Mitigating impact of crisis in the multi-industry perspective – summary of the studies
Joanna Duda and Rafał Kusa
Biography
Joanna Duda is Professor of Management as well as a senior researcher and lecturer at AGH University of Science and Technology in Krakow, Poland.
Rafał Kusa is Assistant Professor as well as a researcher and lecturer at AGH University of Science and Technology in Krakow, Poland.
"The great scientific value and the strength of the publication, that is, the huge knowledge contained there and application of a variety of research tools, as well as the skills of research and drawing conclusions show the monograph is a compendium of knowledge entrepreneurs need to manage their enterprises in the era of the COVID-19 pandemic."
Anna Wolak-Tuzimek, Kazimierz Pulaski University of Technology and Humanities, Poland
