Act or wait-and-see? Adversity, agility, and entrepreneur wellbeing across countries during the Covid-19 pandemic
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 posi...
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| author | Stephan, U. Zbierowski, P. Pérez-Luño, A. Wach, D. Wiklund, J. Cabañas, M. Barki, E. Benzari, A. Bernhard-Oettel, C. Boekhorst, J. Dash, A. Efendic, A. Eib, C. Hanard, P. Iakovleva, T. Kawakatsu, S. Khalid, S. Leatherbee, M. Li, J. Parker, Sharon Qu, J. Rosati, F. Sahasranamam, S. Salusse, M. Sekiguchi, T. Thomas, N. Torrès, O. Tran, M. Ward, M. Williamson, A. Zahid, M. |
| author_facet | Stephan, U. Zbierowski, P. Pérez-Luño, A. Wach, D. Wiklund, J. Cabañas, M. Barki, E. Benzari, A. Bernhard-Oettel, C. Boekhorst, J. Dash, A. Efendic, A. Eib, C. Hanard, P. Iakovleva, T. Kawakatsu, S. Khalid, S. Leatherbee, M. Li, J. Parker, Sharon Qu, J. Rosati, F. Sahasranamam, S. Salusse, M. Sekiguchi, T. Thomas, N. Torrès, O. Tran, M. Ward, M. Williamson, A. Zahid, M. |
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| description | 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. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-887052022-11-23T07:51:49Z Act or wait-and-see? Adversity, agility, and entrepreneur wellbeing across countries during the Covid-19 pandemic Stephan, U. Zbierowski, P. Pérez-Luño, A. Wach, D. Wiklund, J. Cabañas, M. Barki, E. Benzari, A. Bernhard-Oettel, C. Boekhorst, J. Dash, A. Efendic, A. Eib, C. Hanard, P. Iakovleva, T. Kawakatsu, S. Khalid, S. Leatherbee, M. Li, J. Parker, Sharon Qu, J. Rosati, F. Sahasranamam, S. Salusse, M. Sekiguchi, T. Thomas, N. Torrès, O. Tran, M. Ward, M. Williamson, A. Zahid, M. 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. 2022 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/88705 10.1177/10422587221104820 http://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/FL160100033 SAGE Publications fulltext |
| spellingShingle | Stephan, U. Zbierowski, P. Pérez-Luño, A. Wach, D. Wiklund, J. Cabañas, M. Barki, E. Benzari, A. Bernhard-Oettel, C. Boekhorst, J. Dash, A. Efendic, A. Eib, C. Hanard, P. Iakovleva, T. Kawakatsu, S. Khalid, S. Leatherbee, M. Li, J. Parker, Sharon Qu, J. Rosati, F. Sahasranamam, S. Salusse, M. Sekiguchi, T. Thomas, N. Torrès, O. Tran, M. Ward, M. Williamson, A. Zahid, M. Act or wait-and-see? Adversity, agility, and entrepreneur wellbeing across countries during the Covid-19 pandemic |
| title | Act or wait-and-see? Adversity, agility, and entrepreneur wellbeing across countries during the Covid-19 pandemic |
| title_full | Act or wait-and-see? Adversity, agility, and entrepreneur wellbeing across countries during the Covid-19 pandemic |
| title_fullStr | Act or wait-and-see? Adversity, agility, and entrepreneur wellbeing across countries during the Covid-19 pandemic |
| title_full_unstemmed | Act or wait-and-see? Adversity, agility, and entrepreneur wellbeing across countries during the Covid-19 pandemic |
| title_short | Act or wait-and-see? Adversity, agility, and entrepreneur wellbeing across countries during the Covid-19 pandemic |
| title_sort | act or wait-and-see? adversity, agility, and entrepreneur wellbeing across countries during the covid-19 pandemic |
| url | http://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/FL160100033 http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/88705 |