Unveiling Resilience: Strategic Responses, Success Factors, and Challenges Faced by Latin American Female Entrepreneurs Amid the COVID-19 Pandemic

IEEE Engineering Management Review, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 52(1), P. 92 - 107

Published: Nov. 22, 2023

This research aimed to identify critical success factors and challenges faced by non-technical female entrepreneurs during the Covid-19 pandemic. Additionally, it explore strategic financial, marketing, safety responses taken these sustain their businesses. Data was collected through interviews surveys from 106 in Peru 100 Ecuador. Key findings revealed importance of physical mental health, as well excellent customer service, for non-technology-based Both countries expressed concerns about risk infecting family members. Resilience strategies included cost reduction issuing bonds. Our contributes understanding non-tech businesses Ecuador ongoing crisis. It highlights important survival addresses significant faced, employed within Latin American context.

Language: Английский

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COVID-19 and Entrepreneurship

Springer eBooks, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: unknown, P. 1 - 35

Published: Jan. 1, 2023

Language: Английский

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Organizational change and best practices in service startups: what happened during the COVID-19 crisis?

Cogent Business & Management, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 11(1)

Published: March 19, 2024

Brazil is the largest country in terms of startups Latin America. Minas Gerais state occupies third position number and Uberlandia second city Gerais, behind only capital. Regarding size Brazilian startups, around 90% are small medium-sized companies. Considering that service sector among businesses, this study aimed to analyze whether there have been changes caused by pandemic located Uberlândia city. Specific objectives were: verify business structure practical activities early-stage face economic crisis pandemic; identify describe best practices companies studied order propose improvements assist decision-making other organizations. We developed a qualitative descriptive multiple case with nine technology-based Uberlandia. used structured interviews companies' founders analyzed data using content analysis. This contributes academic field identifying seven categories related startups. provides areas themes for future research sector. In addition, proposes synthesis managers' experiences relation carried out their relationship decision-making.

Language: Английский

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It’s all about resources: Narcissistic CEOs and entrepreneurial orientation during disruptions

International Small Business Journal Researching Entrepreneurship, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: unknown

Published: Sept. 17, 2024

Research regarding the influence of personality traits, such as narcissism, on entrepreneurial orientation (EO) is burgeoning, yet role affective and cognitive mechanisms under-examined. Drawing from research conservation resources (COR) theory, cognition emotion, we examine narcissism-EO relationship nexus. Specifically, analyse mediating resource-induced coping heuristic (RICH) moderating fear between narcissism EO. Longitudinal data CEO-entrepreneurs SMEs in six countries were collected during COVID-19 disruptions. Results suggest that RICH fully mediates Fear (FC-19) positively influenced EO strengthened narcissism-RICH relationship. Further, pandemic-related disruptions negatively attenuated positive FC-19 These findings offer insight into drivers behaviour times disruption.

Language: Английский

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Building Self-Belief: The Impact of Entrepreneurial Self-Efficacy on Start-Up Success

Elsevier eBooks, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: unknown

Published: Jan. 1, 2024

Language: Английский

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