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

Ute Stephan; Przemysław  Zbierowski; Ana  Pérez-Luño; Dominika  Wach; Johan  Wiklund; Marisleidy  Alba Cabañas; Edgard  Barki; Alexandre  Benzan; 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 K.  Parker; Jingjing  Qu; Francesco  Rosati; Sreevas  Sahasranamam; Marcus A. Y.  Salusse; Tomoki  Sekiguchi; Nicola  Thomas; Olivier  Torrès; Mi Hoang  Tran; M.K.  Ward; Amanda Jasmine  Williamson; Muhammad Mohsin  Zahid

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

Ute Stephan, Przemysław Zbierowski, Ana Pérez-Luño, Dominika Wach, Johan Wiklund, Marisleidy Alba Cabañas, Edgard Barki, Alexandre Benzan, 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 K. ParkerJingjing Qu, Francesco Rosati, Sreevas Sahasranamam, Marcus A. Y. Salusse, Tomoki Sekiguchi, Nicola Thomas, Olivier Torrès, Mi Hoang Tran, M.K. Ward, Amanda Jasmine Williamson, Muhammad Mohsin Zahid

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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 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
Number of pages	42
Journal	Entrepreneurship: Theory and Practice
Early online date	9 Jun 2022
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1177/10422587221104820
Publication status	E-pub ahead of print - 9 Jun 2022

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Stephan, U., Zbierowski, P., Pérez-Luño, A., Wach, D., Wiklund, J., Alba Cabañas, M., Barki, E., Benzan, 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. https://doi.org/10.1177/10422587221104820

Stephan, Ute ; Zbierowski, Przemysław ; Pérez-Luño, Ana ; Wach, Dominika ; Wiklund, Johan ; Alba Cabañas, Marisleidy ; Barki, Edgard ; Benzan, Alexandre ; Bernhard-Oettel, Claudia ; Boekhorst, Janet A. ; Dash, Arobindu ; Efendic, Adnan ; Eib, Constanze ; Hanard, Pierre-Jean ; Iakovleva, Tatiana ; Kawakatsu, Satoshi ; Khalid, Saddam ; Leatherbee, Michael ; Li, Jun ; Parker, Sharon K. ; Qu, Jingjing ; Rosati, Francesco ; Sahasranamam, Sreevas ; Salusse, Marcus A. Y. ; Sekiguchi, Tomoki ; Thomas, Nicola ; Torrès, Olivier ; Tran, Mi Hoang ; Ward, M.K. ; Williamson, Amanda Jasmine ; Zahid, Muhammad Mohsin . / Act or Wait-and-See? Adversity, Agility, and Entrepreneur Wellbeing across Countries during the COVID-19 Pandemic. In: Entrepreneurship: Theory and Practice. 2022.

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