%0 Journal Article
%A Stephan, Ute
%A Zbierowski, Przemyslaw
%A Pérez-Luño, Ana
%A Wach, Dominika
%A Wiklund, Johan
%A Alba Cabañas, Marisleidy
%A Barki, Edgard
%A Benzari, Alexandre
%A Bernhard-Oettel, Claudia
%A Boekhorst, Janet A.
%A Efendic, Adnan
%A Eib, Constanze
%A Hanard, Pierre-Jean
%A Iakovleva, Tatiana
%A Kawakatsu, Satoshi
%A Khalid, Saddam
%A Leatherbee, Michael
%A Li, Jun
%A Parker,   Sharon K.
%A Qu, Jingjing
%A Rosati, Francesco
%A Sahasranamam, Sreevas
%A Salusse, Marcus A. Y.
%A Sekiguchi, Tomoki
%A Thomas, Nicola
%A Torrès, Olivier
%A Hoang Tran, Mi
%A Ward, M.K
%A Williamson, Amanda Jasmine
%A Mohsin Zahid, Muhammad
%T Act or Wait-and-See? Adversity, Agility, and Entrepreneur Wellbeing across Countries during the COVID-19 Pandemic
%D 2023
%U https://hdl.handle.net/10433/19568
%X 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 3162 entrepreneurs from 20 countries during theCOVID-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.
%K Entrepreneurship
%K Wellbeing
%K Agility
%K Crisis
%K Life satisfaction
%K Subjective vitality
%K Stress
%K COVID-19
%K Pandemic
%K Adversity
%K Resilience
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