COVID-19 AND SMEs IN KOSOVO: ASSESSING EFFECT AND POLICY PREFERENCES

IF 1.3 Q3 BUSINESS

Journal of Developmental Entrepreneurship Pub Date : 2021-03-26 DOI:10.1142/S1084946721500059

B. Krasniqi, Li̇ri̇don Kryeziu, Mehmet Bağış, Mehmet Nurullah Kurutkan, Sara Idrizi

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Abstract

The enforced lockdown and closure of businesses in response to the Covid-19 pandemic has resulted in economic crises across the globe, bringing the attention to entrepreneurship and its importance to economic recovery. The aim of this study is to evaluate the effects of the coronavirus pandemic on SME's and the entrepreneurs' policy preferences based on firm size and industry type. To achieve this, evidence from a Business Support Centre Kosovo's (BSCK) survey involving 236 SME owners interviewed online is reported. Findings from SME survey suggest the problems with cash flow and reduction of customer demand, among others, are major problems faced by SME's across all firm size groups and industry types. Findings from factor analysis clustered SME policy preferences into three groups: policy preferences related to financing and liquidity constraints, market related and tax preferences. This study discusses some policy and managerial implications urging the need for more nuanced and variegated understanding of the effect of coronavirus pandemic on SMEs.

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COVID-19与科索沃中小企业:评估效果和政策偏好

为应对新冠肺炎疫情而强制封锁和关闭企业，在全球范围内引发了经济危机，使人们关注创业及其对经济复苏的重要性。本研究的目的是评估冠状病毒大流行对中小企业和企业家基于企业规模和行业类型的政策偏好的影响。为了实现这一点，科索沃商业支持中心（BSCK）的一项调查提供了证据，该调查涉及236名在线采访的中小企业主。中小企业调查结果表明，现金流和客户需求减少等问题是中小企业在所有企业规模和行业类型中面临的主要问题。因子分析的结果将中小企业政策偏好分为三组：与融资和流动性约束相关的政策偏好、与市场相关的政策优惠和税收优惠。这项研究讨论了一些政策和管理影响，敦促人们对冠状病毒大流行对中小企业的影响有更细致和多样化的理解。

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期刊介绍： The Journal of Developmental Entrepreneurship (JDE) provides a forum for the dissemination of descriptive, empirical, and theoretical research that focuses on issues concerning microenterprise and small business development, especially under conditions of adversity. The intended audiences for JDE are scholars who study issues of developmental entrepreneurship and professionals involved in governmental and non-governmental efforts to facilitate entrepreneurship in economic and community development programs around the world. Articles will cover a broad range of topics, including: -Entrepreneurship and self-employment in developing contexts -Challenges and opportunities unique to minority and women entrepreneurs -Microenterprise funds and private-sector small business lending practices -Legislation, regulation, and tax policy that impact entrepreneurship and economic development -Processes that facilitate growth and development within emerging enterprises -Networks within and among entrepreneurial ventures -Marketing patterns and approaches in venture growth and development -International developmental entrepreneurship programs -Entrepreneurship in the informal economic sector -Education and training for aspiring entrepreneurs -Industry practices that adversely affect microenterprise development -Economic and social impacts of microenterprise activity