What is it about?
Written with Prakash Persad in the first year of the pandemic, this review examined how COVID-19 affected entrepreneurship across the world’s economies: the shock to ventures and livelihoods, the sectors under most pressure, and the conditions entrepreneurs faced as economies closed and reopened. It was published in September 2020, while the disruption it describes was still unfolding, and it recorded what the early evidence showed at a moment when almost nothing was settled.
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Why is it important?
This is the most cited of my papers. Researchers drew on it through the pandemic years as an early account of what COVID-19 did to entrepreneurial activity, and the citation record shows it travelled well beyond the Caribbean. Reviews written inside an unfolding event usually date quickly; this one is still cited because it recorded the disruption while it was happening.
Perspectives
We wrote this in mid 2020, when nobody knew how long the disruption would last, and the discipline was writing about an event with no hindsight available. Reading it now, it is a record of what the early pandemic looked like to researchers watching ventures absorb the shock in real time.
Inshan Meahjohn
University of Trinidad and Tobago
Read the Original
This page is a summary of: The Impact of COVID-19 on Entrepreneurship Globally, Journal of Economics and Business, September 2020, Asian Institute of Research,
DOI: 10.31014/aior.1992.03.03.272.
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