Guest editorial

Abstract

The scholarly community realised quickly that this is an important exogenous shock to entrepreneurial activities which require further investigation into. [...]started a collection of empirical insights throughout the special issues in the leading entrepreneurship journals, such as Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice (Shepherd et al., 2020), Small Business Economics (Acs et al., 2020) or Journal of Business Research (Donthu and Gustafsson, 2020). The researchers conclude by identifying the most critical resilience groups of factors (i.e. characteristics of the business and the entrepreneur, the relationships with institutions, human and social capital and strategic management), which should be considered for the preparation of training programmes (Portuguez Castro and Gómez Zermeño, 2020). [...]of their research, the authors provide several recommendations for policy adjustments. (2021) was situated in Peru and interviewed 25 business owners and managers from different sectors of the economy, such as human resources, cleaning services, fishery production, wood toys production, catering services or psychological counselling.