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 Benzari; 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; Michael K. Ward; Amanda Jasmine Williamson; Muhammad Mohsin Zahid

doi:10.1177/10422587221104820

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 Benzari
, 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, Michael K. Ward, Amanda Jasmine Williamson, Muhammad Mohsin Zahid

^*Corresponding author for this work

Institute of Management and Organization

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Abstract

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
Journal	Entrepreneurship: Theory and Practice
Volume	47
Issue number	3
Pages (from-to)	682-723
Number of pages	42
ISSN	1042-2587
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1177/10422587221104820
Publication status	Published - 05.2023

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UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

SDG 3 Good Health and Well-being

Research areas and keywords

adversity
agility
COVID-19 pandemic
crisis
entrepreneurship
life satisfaction
resilience
stress
subjective vitality
wellbeing
Management studies

ASJC Scopus Subject Areas

Economics and Econometrics
Business and International Management

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Act or Wait-and-See? Adversity, Agility, and Entrepreneur Wellbeing across Countries during the COVID-19 Pandemic
Stephan, U. (Creator), Zbierowski, P. (Creator), Pérez-Luño, A. (Creator), Wach, D. (Creator), Wiklund, J. (Creator), Alba Cabañas, M. (Creator), Barki, E. (Creator), Benzari, A. (Creator), Bernhard-Oettel, C. (Creator), Boekhorst, J. A. (Creator), Dash, A. (Creator), Efendic, A. (Creator), Eib, C. (Creator), Hanard, P.-J. (Creator), Iakovleva, T. (Creator), Kawakatsu, S. (Creator), Khalid, S. (Creator), Leatherbee, M. (Creator), Li, J. (Creator), Parker, S. K. (Creator), Qu, J. (Creator), Rosati, F. (Creator), Sahasranamam, S. (Creator), Salusse, M. A. Y. (Creator), Sekiguchi, T. (Creator), Thomas, N. (Creator), Torrès, O. (Creator), Tran, M. H. (Creator), Ward, M. K. (Creator), Williamson, A. J. (Creator) & Zahid, M. M. (Creator), SAGE Publications Inc., 2022
DOI: 10.1177/10422587221104820
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Stephan, U., Zbierowski, P., Pérez-Luño, A., Wach, D., Wiklund, J., Alba Cabañas, M., Barki, E., Benzari, 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. (2023). Act or Wait-and-See? Adversity, Agility, and Entrepreneur Wellbeing across Countries during the COVID-19 Pandemic. Entrepreneurship: Theory and Practice, 47(3), 682-723. https://doi.org/10.1177/10422587221104820

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

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