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ArticleSmall business economics2023

Responding to unexpected crises: The roles of slack resources and entrepreneurial attitude to build resilience.

Elisa Conz, Giovanna Magnani, Antonella Zucchella, Alfredo De Massis

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Article in Small business economics, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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Elisa ConzDepartment of Social and Political Sciences, University of Pavia, Corso Strada Nuova 65, 27100 Pavia, Italy.ORCID 0000-0003-1082-4348
Giovanna MagnaniDepartment of Economics and Management, University of Pavia, Via San Felice 5, 27100 Pavia, Italy.
Antonella ZucchellaDepartment of Economics and Management, University of Pavia, Via San Felice 5, 27100 Pavia, Italy.
Alfredo De MassisCentre for Family Business Management, Faculty of Economics and Management, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Bozen-Bolzano, Italy.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This study explores how entrepreneurial firms responded to - and displayed resilience in - coping with the uncertainty generated by an unexpected crisis. We examine how entrepreneurs leveraged slack resources to build organizational resilience and, thanks to their entrepreneurial attitude, could eventually turn adversities into opportunities. Through a multiple case study, four key entrepreneurial responses emerge about the type of slack resources (business or family) and extent of entrepreneurial attitude (favourable or unfavourable) leveraged: "waiting while seeding", "keeping business as usual", "striving to resist" and "surfing the pandemic". Slack resources, both business and family, can enable the absorption of a shock, contributing to building absorptive resilience, or the adaptation to the shock, contributing to building adaptive resilience. Yet, they are not sufficient to turn adversities into opportunities because firms also require a favourable entrepreneurial attitude to activate slack.

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Entrepreneurial attitudeEntrepreneurshipResilienceSlack resourcesUncertainty

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PMID38625297
PMCPMC9838285

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