Act or wait-and-see? Adversity, agility, and entrepreneur wellbeing across countries during the Covid-19 pandemic

Ute Stephan; Przemyslaw 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 Parker; Jingjing Qu; Francesco Rosati; Sreevas Sahasranamam; Marcus Alexandre Yshikawa Salusse; Tomoki Sekiguchi; Nicola Thomas; Olivier Torrès; Mi Hoang Tran; M.K. Ward; Amanda Williamson; Muhammad Mohsin Zahid

doi:10.1177/10422587221104820

Act or wait-and-see? Adversity, agility, and entrepreneur wellbeing across countries during the Covid-19 pandemic

Ute Stephan, Przemyslaw 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 ParkerJingjing Qu, Francesco Rosati, Sreevas Sahasranamam, Marcus Alexandre Yshikawa Salusse, Tomoki Sekiguchi, Nicola Thomas, Olivier Torrès, Mi Hoang Tran, M.K. Ward, Amanda Williamson, Muhammad Mohsin Zahid

Hunter Centre For Entrepreneurship

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Abstract

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 3,162 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 language	English
Pages (from-to)	682-723
Number of pages	42
Journal	Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice
Volume	47
Issue number	3
Early online date	9 Jun 2022
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1177/10422587221104820
Publication status	E-pub ahead of print - 9 Jun 2022

Keywords

entrepreneurship
wellbeing
crisis
Covid-19 pandemic
agility
adversity
life satisfaction
subjective vitality
stress
resilience

UN SDGs

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Stephan-etal-ETP-2022-Act-or-wait-and-see-adversity-agility-and-entrepreneur-wellbeing-across-countries-during-the-Covid-19-pandemicAccepted author manuscript, 1.2 MBLicence: Strath_1

Supporting Entrepreneurship during the Covid-19 Pandemic: A Global Study of Entrepreneurs' Resilience and Well-being
Stephan, U. (Principal Investigator), Zbierowski, P. (Principal Investigator) & Sahasranamam, S. (Principal Investigator)
Project: Non-funded project

Data for: "Act or Wait-and-See? Adversity, Agility, and Entrepreneur Wellbeing across Countries during the COVID-19 Pandemic"
Stephan, U. (Creator), Zbierowski, P. (Creator), Pérez-Luño, A. (Creator), Wach, D. (Creator), Wiklund, J. (Creator), Alba Cabañas, M. (Creator), Barki, E. (Creator), Benzari, A. (Creator), Bernhard-Oettel, C. (Creator), Boekhorst, J. A. (Creator), Dash, A. (Creator), Efendic, A. (Creator), Eib, C. (Creator), Hanard, P.-J. (Creator), Iakovleva, T. (Creator), Kawakatsu, S. (Creator), Khalid, S. (Creator), Leatherbee, M. (Creator), Li, J. (Creator), Parker, S. K. (Creator), Qu, J. (Creator), Rosati, F. (Creator), Sahasranamam, S. (Creator), Salusse, M. A. Y. (Creator), Sekiguchi, T. (Creator), Thomas, N. (Creator), Torrès, O. (Creator), Tran, M. H. (Creator), Ward, M. K. (Creator), Williamson, A. J. (Creator) & Zahid, M. M. (Creator), figshare, 17 Mar 2023
DOI: 10.25384/sage.c.6040386.v1
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41 Citations
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Founding team entrepreneurial experience, external financing and social enterprise performance
Sahasranamam, S., Lall, S., Nicolopoulou, K. & Shaw, E., 31 Jan 2024, In: British Journal of Management. 35, 1, p. 519-536 18 p.
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5 post-COVID trends from Indian entrepreneurs
Sahasranamam, S., Stephan, U. & Zbierowski, P., 29 Jul 2021, Geneva, Switzerland
Research output: Other contribution
Entrepreneurship after COVID-19: an assessment of the short- and long-term consequences for Indian small business
Sahasranamam, S., Stephan, U. & Zbierowski, P., 28 Jun 2021, Glasgow: University of Strathclyde. 26 p.
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Stephan, U., Zbierowski, P., Pérez-Luño, A., Wach, D., Wiklund, J., Cabañas, M. A., Barki, E., Benzari, A., Bernhard-Oettel, C., Boekhorst, J. A., Dash, A., Efendic, A., Eib, C., Hanard, P.-J., Iakovleva, T., Kawakatsu, S., Khalid, S., Leatherbee, M., Li, J., ... Zahid, M. M. (2022). Act or wait-and-see? Adversity, agility, and entrepreneur wellbeing across countries during the Covid-19 pandemic. Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, 47(3), 682-723. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1177/10422587221104820

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Act or wait-and-see? Adversity, agility, and entrepreneur wellbeing across countries during the Covid-19 pandemic

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UN SDGs

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Supporting Entrepreneurship during the Covid-19 Pandemic: A Global Study of Entrepreneurs' Resilience and Well-being

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

Research output

Founding team entrepreneurial experience, external financing and social enterprise performance

5 post-COVID trends from Indian entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurship after COVID-19: an assessment of the short- and long-term consequences for Indian small business

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