Coronavirus (covid-19) and entrepreneurship: changing life and work landscape

TLDR

Covid‑19 has profoundly impacted global society, and this article is among the first academic studies to examine its effects from a cultural, social, and lifestyle entrepreneurship perspective. The article aims to examine how the covid‑19 crisis has reshaped cultural, lifestyle, and social entrepreneurship and to fill the gap between crisis management, entrepreneurship, and covid‑19 literature by offering an inclusive integrative framework. The authors systematically synthesize existing literature, linking crisis‑management and entrepreneurship concepts to elucidate micro, macro, and meso environmental effects of covid‑19 on entrepreneurship. The article reveals that the effects of covid‑19 on entrepreneurship are largely unexplored and proposes a more inclusive, integrative framework.

Abstract

The purpose of this commentary article is to focus on how the covid-19 crisis has affected cultural, lifestyle, and social entrepreneurship. In doing so, I address the current lack of integration between crisis management, entrepreneurship, and covid-19 literature. This commentary article systematically synthesizes the current literature by linking key concepts within crisis management and entrepreneurship. Covid-19 has had an enormous effect on global society, so this article is amongst the first from an academic standpoint to examine it from a cultural, social, and lifestyle entrepreneurship perspective. This enables micro, macro, and meso environmental effects originating from the covid-19 crisis to be better understood in terms of the entrepreneurship literature. Currently, the effects of covid-19 on entrepreneurship remain unexplored so this article provides a more inclusive and integrative framework.