Objective: The objective of the article is to contribute to research into family businesses by understanding how small family businesses are responding and adapting to the Covid-19 crisis. Research Design & Methods: The research method is based on a comparative analysis of case studies. To...

Family firms are the most prevalent form of economic organization in the world, but despite their reputation for resilience and agility, many of them are facing enormous challenges due to the Covid-19 pandemic. In this essay, we examine how the pressures to respond to this health emergency are...

The study proposes an assessment of the link between the performance of national health systems and volatility during the COVID-19 pandemic. Data from the World Health Organization was accessed regarding the Global Health Security Index of the states considered in the analysis as well as the...

COVID-19 has had a significant impact on the global economic activities. Businesses entities experienced the disruption of their normal operations. The dynamic nature of modern working conditions and the pivotal role of change management approaches in navigating this complexity is analysed....

Patients with rare diseases, as well as their caregivers, sometimes develop new solutions to deal with their health conditions but only a small fraction share the solution with their doctor or other health professionals. When the value of patient developed solutions is considered, the evidence...

Using novel workplace COVID infection data, we document large variation in workplace infection rates across industries, firms, and establishments. Firms with higher infection rates experienced larger declines in operating performance in 2020. An employer's 2020 workplace infection rate is...

This paper examines how investors perceive business group membership in Korea during the COVID-19 pandemic. Evidence of a time-varying and heterogeneous value of affiliation emerges from stock price performance analysis. I find that investors discount business group affiliation during a market...

This paper evaluates the risk of zombification of the French economy during the sanitary crisis, as a result of the unconditional financial support provided to firms by public authorities. We develop a simple theoretical framework based on a partial-equilibrium model to simulate the liquidity...

This paper examines the impact of governmental generous financial support for dine-in restaurants that reduced their business hours in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic on the entry and exit of restaurants using administrative data. The descriptive analysis results show that the number of...

Government subsidies have been one of the main policy instruments used to deal with the economic effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. This study investigated the impact of spatial dependence on the take-up rate of local government subsidies in 2020. It focused on a specific sub-population of firms...