Crisis leadership in SMEs and the response to COVID-19. An exploratory case study of South Korean SMEs.

The recent outbreak of COVID-19 has been disrupting SMEs (Small-medium sized enterprise) in particular. In a crisis such as COVID-19, leadership has been considered as most important in SMEs, but prior studies showed less emphasis on it. Specifically, there is only a limited amount of research on cr...

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Main Author: Kim, Bora
Format: Dissertation (University of Nottingham only)
Language:English
Published: 2020
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Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/62572/
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description The recent outbreak of COVID-19 has been disrupting SMEs (Small-medium sized enterprise) in particular. In a crisis such as COVID-19, leadership has been considered as most important in SMEs, but prior studies showed less emphasis on it. Specifically, there is only a limited amount of research on crisis leadership in SMEs in East Asia. The dissertation explores how South Korean SMEs establish crisis leadership to respond to the impact of the COVID-19. By investigating Korean SMEs, the dissertation attempts to address both leadership in SMEs to respond to COVID-19 and crisis leadership in South Korean SMEs. By interviewing five Korean SMEs owners-senior managers, the dissertation explores the impact of the COVID-19 and their crisis leadership; crisis leadership type and crisis leadership competencies. Our findings reveal that the unique leadership of the Korean SMEs leader-senior managers which is combined with paternalistic leadership and proactive, systematic procedures for crisis management in COVID-19, as well as several factors to explain why this leadership emerged. Therefore, our evidence provides new insight of crisis leadership in SMEs out of the western perspectives and suggests a theoretical proposition of crisis leadership in South Korea SMEs.
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spelling nottingham-625722023-04-14T10:44:58Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/62572/ Crisis leadership in SMEs and the response to COVID-19. An exploratory case study of South Korean SMEs. Kim, Bora The recent outbreak of COVID-19 has been disrupting SMEs (Small-medium sized enterprise) in particular. In a crisis such as COVID-19, leadership has been considered as most important in SMEs, but prior studies showed less emphasis on it. Specifically, there is only a limited amount of research on crisis leadership in SMEs in East Asia. The dissertation explores how South Korean SMEs establish crisis leadership to respond to the impact of the COVID-19. By investigating Korean SMEs, the dissertation attempts to address both leadership in SMEs to respond to COVID-19 and crisis leadership in South Korean SMEs. By interviewing five Korean SMEs owners-senior managers, the dissertation explores the impact of the COVID-19 and their crisis leadership; crisis leadership type and crisis leadership competencies. Our findings reveal that the unique leadership of the Korean SMEs leader-senior managers which is combined with paternalistic leadership and proactive, systematic procedures for crisis management in COVID-19, as well as several factors to explain why this leadership emerged. Therefore, our evidence provides new insight of crisis leadership in SMEs out of the western perspectives and suggests a theoretical proposition of crisis leadership in South Korea SMEs. 2020-12-01 Dissertation (University of Nottingham only) NonPeerReviewed application/pdf en https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/62572/1/20202882_BUSI4134_Dissertation.docx Kim, Bora (2020) Crisis leadership in SMEs and the response to COVID-19. An exploratory case study of South Korean SMEs. [Dissertation (University of Nottingham only)] COVID-19 leadership Crisis leadership Crisis leadership type Crisis leadership competencies SMEs Korean SMEs.
spellingShingle COVID-19
leadership
Crisis leadership
Crisis leadership type
Crisis leadership competencies
SMEs
Korean SMEs.
Kim, Bora
Crisis leadership in SMEs and the response to COVID-19. An exploratory case study of South Korean SMEs.
title Crisis leadership in SMEs and the response to COVID-19. An exploratory case study of South Korean SMEs.
title_full Crisis leadership in SMEs and the response to COVID-19. An exploratory case study of South Korean SMEs.
title_fullStr Crisis leadership in SMEs and the response to COVID-19. An exploratory case study of South Korean SMEs.
title_full_unstemmed Crisis leadership in SMEs and the response to COVID-19. An exploratory case study of South Korean SMEs.
title_short Crisis leadership in SMEs and the response to COVID-19. An exploratory case study of South Korean SMEs.
title_sort crisis leadership in smes and the response to covid-19. an exploratory case study of south korean smes.
topic COVID-19
leadership
Crisis leadership
Crisis leadership type
Crisis leadership competencies
SMEs
Korean SMEs.
url https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/62572/