{
  "id": 8920,
  "url": "https://doi.org/10.1007/s11187-021-00544-y",
  "title": "Economic effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on entrepreneurship and small businesses",
  "summary": "The existential threat to small businesses, based on their crucial role in the economy, is behind the plethora of scholarly studies in 2020, the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic. Examining the 15 contributions of the special issue on the \"Economic effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on entrepreneurship and small businesses,\" the paper comprises four parts: a systematic review of the literature on the effect on entrepreneurship and small businesses; a discussion of four literature strands based o",
  "authors": "Maksim Belitski, Christina Guenther, Alexander S. Kritikos, Roy Thurik",
  "category": "research",
  "topics": "safety-alignment,jobs-economy",
  "orgs": null,
  "regions": null,
  "published_at": "2021-09-12T00:00:00.000Z",
  "fetched_at": "2026-07-14T16:33:47.095Z",
  "source_slug": "openalex",
  "source_name": "OpenAlex",
  "source_homepage": "https://openalex.org",
  "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/8920",
  "original_url": "https://doi.org/10.1007/s11187-021-00544-y",
  "evidence_status": "source-only",
  "attribution": "via ethics.ai"
}