Entrepreneurship Research in Times of COVID-19: Experiences from South America

Fernández-Bedoya, Víctor Hugo; Meneses-La-Riva, Mónica Elisa; Suyo-Vega, Josefina Amanda; Gago-Chávez, Johanna de Jesús Stephanie

doi:10.3390/su15076028

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“…The COVID-19 pandemic and resulting public health crisis had an enormous impact on the global economy at all scales and in all sectors, with disruptions affecting most types of economic activity [2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12], including related sectors such as logistics, transport, and energy [13][14][15][16]24]. While tourism and related activities, including food services, were most affected [20][21][22][23][24], agriculture was affected to varying degrees, depending on the scale, type, and nature of production and geographical location .…”

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“…Entrepreneurship and self-employment in South America showed great resilience, with the ability to virtualise their business, suggesting that the economic stability of employees and their communities is as important as the business itself [8]. Evidence from the top 10 affected countries showed that financial asset markets suffered, while real asset markets remained more stable, with trade and travel affecting the oil market [9].…”

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The Impact of COVID-19 Lockdown on West Romanian Crop Production in 2020

Gherasimescu,

Imbrea,

Imbrea

et al. 2023

Sustainability

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The COVID-19 pandemic and the resulting public health crisis had an enormous impact on the global economy and its sectors. Most components were adversely affected, especially the tertiary industry (the part of a country’s economy that provides services), with different types and sizes of businesses suffering to varying degrees. Reports on the impact on agriculture are not lacking, and the crisis was perceived and responded to differently from the supply chain to the household level. The research question proposed in this paper concerns the impact of the early restrictions induced by COVID-19, namely the lockdown period from March to June 2020, on Romanian agriculture and more precisely Western Romanian crop production. Two counties in the West were selected: the county Timis for its highly favourable agricultural production and the county Caras Severin for its integrative agricultural production centred on mixed farms, where crop production is integrated with animal production towards a higher added value. Using secondary data from the National Agency for Payments and Interventions in Agriculture allowed the disaggregation of data at the level of each municipality for 2019 and 2020. The choice of this dataset was related to the level of precision, as the beneficiaries of direct payments in the respective areas are verified each year for both areas and crops. The paired two-tailed t-test was used to test the data for each LAU 2 municipality in each of the selected counties; as the crops sown in 2019 could not be affected by the COVID lockdown period in spring 2020 (March to June), the most important spring crops in terms of area in 2020 were selected and tested against the 2019 datasets. The results show that there is not enough evidence to conclude a significant statistical difference between the two years, and therefore, we cannot reject the null hypothesis and conclude that the pandemic lockdown did not affect the spring crops during their most restrictive period in spring 2020; thus, the overall influence of the COVID-19 lockdown on crop production in Western Romania was insignificant, observed only at the level of primary production. Spring crop production could have been severely affected by the restrictions imposed by the health crisis on access to certain inputs, freedom of movement for field work, and other activities closely linked to agricultural production, leading to early disruptions along the food chain.

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The Impact of COVID-19 Lockdown on West Romanian Crop Production in 2020

Gherasimescu,

Imbrea,

Imbrea

et al. 2023

Sustainability

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“…In response to changing conditions, many entrepreneurs have redirected their operations toward new markets. Previous studies have underscored that entrepreneurs who managed to adapt to these new ecosystem rules and targeted their businesses toward new markets were able to survive the crisis and maintain their market positions [27][28][29][30].…”

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Entrepreneurial Factors Influencing Recovery from Covid-19: A Country-Level Analysis

2023

Teh. vjesn.

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This study examines the impact of entrepreneurship ecosystem factors on the recovery of entrepreneurship from the COVID-19 pandemic and offers valuable insights to drive growth. By analyzing the Serbian dataset from the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor National Expert Survey in 2022, the study employs linear regression analysis to investigate the relationship between Entrepreneurial Framework Conditions and post-pandemic recovery. Data were collected through interviews with 40 experts representing the government, academia, and industry. The National Entrepreneurship Context Index score for Serbia's entrepreneurial environment quality in 2022 is 4.6 which positions Serbia in the middle of the continuum of included country scores. The results of the analysis have shown that Market openness (β = .474; p < .01) and Achieving the UN Sustainable Economic Development Goals (β = .460; p < .01) have a direct positive impact on the recovery of entrepreneurs from the consequences of COVID-19. The limitations of the study are related to the demographics of the sample, self-reported data, geographic scope, focusing only on the Republic of Serbia, crosssectional design that does not capture the dynamic and evolving nature of the recovery process. Given these limitations, future work could incorporate a more diverse sample to enhance the generalizability of the findings.This research provides important insights and policy recommendations to leverage entrepreneurial practices for economic recovery following the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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“…During the COVID-19 confinement, as sales were affected, some companies neglected to maintain constant communication or foster relationships with their customers. It is known that during those times, many ventures had to change the way they conducted business [1], [2], [3].…”

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Relationship-based marketing and its influence on customer loyalty in a commercial company, Bellavista, 2022

Fernandez-Bedoya,

Montero-Chumpitaz

2023

Proceedings of the 3rd LACCEI International Multiconference on Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Regional Development (LEIRD 202

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The objective of this research was to determine the influence of relationship-based marketing on customer loyalty (and its dimensions: loyalty heart, information, internal marketing, communication, customer experience management and incentives and privileges) of a commercial company, Bellavista, 2022. The methodology had a quantitative approach, applied type, explanatory and descriptive level, non-experimental and cross-sectional design. The population consisted of 100 consumers of the company (finite). The study sample consisted of 80 customers. The technique applied was the survey. The instrument consisted of 18 items, which was submitted to 3 expert judges (Aiken's V coefficient of 1.00). The reliability results were 0.923 Cronbach's alpha overall and 0.830 Guttman's two halves. It was concluded that relationship-based marketing significantly influences customer loyalty of a commercial company, Bellavista 2022 (sig.=0.000; r²=0. 3398) as well as in its dimensions heart of loyalty, information, internal marketing, communication, customer experience management and incentives and privileges (

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Entrepreneurship Research in Times of COVID-19: Experiences from South America

Cited by 13 publications

References 124 publications

The Impact of COVID-19 Lockdown on West Romanian Crop Production in 2020

The Impact of COVID-19 Lockdown on West Romanian Crop Production in 2020

Entrepreneurial Factors Influencing Recovery from Covid-19: A Country-Level Analysis

Relationship-based marketing and its influence on customer loyalty in a commercial company, Bellavista, 2022

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