By following 17 entrepreneurial ventures throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, we show how entrepreneurial ventures can resourcefully mobilize resources throughout crisis—when resource constraints and opportunities for resource mobilization shift erratically. In a period marked by significant resource constraints, a temporary field emerged, centered around societal consequences of the crisis and temporarily offered opportunities for resource mobilization. We identified two types of resourcefulness, both of which were successful immediately after the crisis struck. Surprisingly, only leveraging the temporary field enabled resource mobilization throughout the crisis and fostered venture survival, while, despite initial successes, absorbing the temporary field did not.

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危机期间的企业家足智多谋


通过跟踪整个 COVID-19 大流行期间的 17 家创业企业，我们展示了当资源限制和资源调动机会不稳定时，创业企业如何在整个危机期间灵活地调动资源。在资源严重紧张的时期，出现了一个临时领域，以危机的社会后果为中心，并暂时为资源调动提供了机会。我们确定了两种足智多谋的方式，这两种方式在危机爆发后都立即取得了成功。令人惊讶的是，只有利用临时领域才能在整个危机期间调动资源并促进风险企业的生存，而尽管取得了初步成功，但吸收临时领域却没有效果。