In light of the unprecedented global crisis caused by COVID-19 pandemic, resilient businesses are those more likely to make transition post-COVID era. Our study draws on concept psychological resilience and focusses individual owner-managers end examining business in context pandemic. We conduct a longitudinal qualitative study, collecting data from 35 small between April December 2020. finding...

The rapid rise of e-business has brought profound impact on, as well as significant challenges to, businesses of all sizes. The lack of anticipated engagement in e-business by small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) is still a concern to the UK government. Findings from the literature appear to have revealed a contradictory picture of SMEs’ engagement in e-business. There is limited systemati...

This study focuses on the development of small business and private entrepreneurship in the provision of employment for the teaming population of the Republic of Uzbekistan. It is one of the main indicators used in identifying not only the economic situation of the people, but also the lifestyle of the people, especially where they live. One of the main issues affecting the program of employmen...

How do small business owners learn from experience? Using a cognitive framework, we examine potential impediments to the experiential learning process of small business owner/managers. Supplementing this theory-building exercise, we present illustrative cases and suggest propositions for testing the framework, and perhaps increasing the efficiency of experiential learning among small business o...

What is the magnitude of credit constraint or credit gap affecting small businesses? This paper provides estimates of credit gap, defined as the difference between the desired and actual levels of debt for credit-constrained small businesses using the data from the National Survey of Small Business Finances. The estimated credit gap is approximately 20 percent – credit constrained small busines...