Exploring the Managerial Dynamics in a Turbulent Context: The Reaction of SMEs’ Leaders

Abstract

Small and medium enterprises constitute the bulk of the Lebanese economic fabric. Over the past decades, the managers of these SMEs have played a pivotal role in the survival of their businesses. This research aims at understanding how these managers manage to survive in a turbulent context marked by perpetual changes that are almost constantly renewing themselves, by showing how, in such an environment, they manage to mobilize resources and skills and deploy dynamic capacities in order to develop efficient and sustainable practices. The results of qualitative research of the exploratory type are intended to present researchers with a "reaction model" that, in a similar context, could enlighten SME leaders on the managerial performance required.

Explaining Consumer Support for Sustainable Business Practices in the Frontier Market of Lebanon

“…Interventions by neighboring countries—both intentional and unintentional—have complicated Lebanon's development since the onset of the civil war (Humud 2018). Israel invaded in 1982 to fight Palestinians operating in Southern Lebanon (Khalifé and Montmorillon 2021). Syria invaded in 1976 and did not leave until 2005 (Geukjian 2014).…”