RT Journal Article
T1 Act or Wait-and-See? Adversity, Agility, and Entrepreneur Wellbeing across Countries during the COVID-19 Pandemic
A1 Stephan, Ute
A1 Zbierowski, Przemyslaw
A1 Pérez-Luño, Ana
A1 Wach, Dominika
A1 Wiklund, Johan
A1 Alba Cabañas, Marisleidy
A1 Barki, Edgard
A1 Benzari, Alexandre
A1 Bernhard-Oettel, Claudia
A1 Boekhorst, Janet A.
A1 Efendic, Adnan
A1 Eib, Constanze
A1 Hanard, Pierre-Jean
A1 Iakovleva, Tatiana
A1 Kawakatsu, Satoshi
A1 Khalid, Saddam
A1 Leatherbee, Michael
A1 Li, Jun
A1 Parker, Sharon K.
A1 Qu, Jingjing
A1 Rosati, Francesco
A1 Sahasranamam, Sreevas
A1 Salusse, Marcus A. Y.
A1 Sekiguchi, Tomoki
A1 Thomas, Nicola
A1 Torrès, Olivier
A1 Hoang Tran, Mi
A1 Ward, M.K
A1 Williamson, Amanda Jasmine
A1 Mohsin Zahid, Muhammad
K1 Entrepreneurship
K1 Wellbeing
K1 Agility
K1 Crisis
K1 Life satisfaction
K1 Subjective vitality
K1 Stress
K1 COVID-19
K1 Pandemic
K1 Adversity
K1 Resilience
AB 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.
PB SAGE
YR 2023
FD 2023
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10433/19568
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10433/19568
LA en
NO Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, 47(3), 682-723. https://doi.org/10.1177/10422587221104820
NO Departamento de Organización de Empresas y Marketing
DS RIO
RD May 13, 2026