GCRF_NF106 Entrepreneurial resilience & recovery during and after covid-19 crisis: firm- & community-level responses in Wuhan, Malaysia, and Thailand

Moscarini和Postel-Viney（《美国经济评论》，2012）表明，企业家在经济危机期间是经济弹性的核心，在危机减弱时是启动复苏的核心。然而，我们对如何在covid-19式的经济紧急情况下最好地利用这一潜力知之甚少，这不仅会导致急剧的需求冲击，而且还需要企业从根本上重新配置其业务以遵守社交距离。对于低收入和中等收入经济体来说，这种知识差距尤其严重，因为大多数关于创业韧性的研究都是在高收入国家进行的。在危机期间利用企业家促进经济恢复和复苏的过程中，政府必须阻止“竞相向底”的反应，并鼓励“社区齐心协力”的反应。首先是一场“狗咬狗”的竞赛，以尽可能多地为自己争取日益减少的资源。在第二种情况下，社区团结起来缓冲其成员抵御冲击。我们目前对如何促进可持续的应对措施和阻止不可持续的应对措施知之甚少。我们解决了上述知识差距。我们与武汉大学、联合国亚洲经济社会委员会（曼谷）、亚洲商学院（吉隆坡）和亚洲开发银行（马尼拉）合作，研究创业公司和社区层面的应对措施和商业模式实践，以应对2019冠状病毒病危机，并实现危机后的强劲复苏。我们将进行20-25个纵向案例研究，以引入企业和社区层面的创业弹性和复苏过程模型，为亚洲中低收入经济体的政策和创业实践提供信息。

Moscarini and Postel-Viney (American Economic Review, 2012) showed that entrepreneurs are central for economic resilience during an economic crisis and for kickstarting recovery as the crisis attenuates. However, we know little about how this potential can be best harnessed during a covid-19 -style economic emergency, which not only causes a sharp demand shock, but also, requires businesses to radically reconfigure their operations to comply with social distancing. This knowledge gap is particularly acute for low- and middle-income economies, as most studies of entrepreneurial resilience have been conducted in high-income countries.In harnessing entrepreneurs for economic resilience and recovery during a crisis, governments have to deter a 'race to the bottom' response and encourage a 'community pulling together' response. The first is a 'dog-eat-dog' race to secure as many of the dwindling resources for oneself as possible. In the second, the community pulls together to buffer its members against the shock. We currently know little about how to promote sustainable responses and discourage unsustainable ones.We address the above knowledge gaps. Collaborating with Wuhan University, UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia (Bangkok), Asia School of Business (Kuala Lumpur) and Asian Development Bank (Manila) we study entrepreneurial firm- and community-level responses and business model practices for resilient adjustment to covid- 19 crisis and for robust post-crisis recovery. We will conduct 20-25 longitudinal case studies to induct firm- and community -level process models of entrepreneurial resilience and recovery to inform policy and entrepreneurial practice in lower and upper middle income economies in Asia.