Entrepreneurship Perception during the first COVID-19 Shock: Mental Representations of Entrepreneurship and Preferences of Business Models during the Pandemic

Jessica Birkholz and Jarina Kühn

No 2105, Bremen Papers on Economics & Innovation from University of Bremen, Faculty of Business Studies and Economics

Abstract: We examine the explicit business model preferences and implicit mental representations of entrepreneurship in the early phase of the crisis. We find that the crisis comes with adaptations in both. During crisis, society is open for new business models, even though people increasingly rely on established economic actors instead of opening up towards newly founded firms. We conclude that the early and sudden impact of the crisis influences the entrepreneurial culture onwards and therefore potentially future entrepreneurial activities.

Keywords: Crisis; entrepreneurship; business models; mental representation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D83 D84 D87 D91 L26 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 39 pages
Date: 2021-07
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DOI: 10.26092/elib/824

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