COVID-19 as External Enabler of entrepreneurship practice and research

For decades, entrepreneurship and strategy research has been dominated by agent-centric inward-looking theoretical perspectives. The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic demonstrates the limits of this stance, as its influence on business both enormous palpable. most part, effects are no doubt negative. Business research—and presumably practice—typically address such in terms failure, resilience, crisis management among existing businesses. Contrasting prevalent discourse, we focus instead positive for some emerging new ventures. We analyze many possible practice highlight also research. illustrate positives applying External Enabler framework. JEL CLASSIFICATION: L26, M13, O3, R11