In most developing countries like Zambia, entrepreneurs contribute largely in a society’s economic growth and major interruptions such as the COVID-19 pandemic can have a negative impact on the well-being of its citizenry and businesses. The onset of the COVID 19 pandemic found many entrepreneurs unprepared and hence several businesses in societies were profoundly disrupted. During this crisis, entrepreneurs faced unexpected new challenges of creating sustainable business strategies.
Impact of Covid-19 on Micro and Small Entrepreneur (MSE) Graduates of the Kap...IJAEMSJORNAL
The outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has severely affected the Micro, Small, and Medium-sized Enterprises (MSMEs). Unfortunately, small businesses are being hit hardest by the fall-out of the pandemic [1] and are being addressed by the Department of Trade Industry (DTI) with several measures and initiatives to mitigate its impact on the Philippine economy. This study was conducted to describe the status and effects of the pandemic to the Micro and Small Entrepreneur graduates of the Kapatid Mentor ME (KMME) Program of DTI in the province of Nueva Ecija, Philippines, as the agency’s guide in streamlining the future direction of the program. The descriptive method of research was used with a semi-structured one-page online survey to determine the KMME MSE graduates’ profile and the overall impact of COVID-19 pandemic particularly during the declaration of the community quarantine. The data gathered showed that most of the KMME MSE graduates continued their business operations amidst the pandemic. They are responding to the economic fall-out in several ways with optimism, government response and interventions that are significant to ensure MSEs survival. Likewise, they develop resilience through business continuity trainings, productivity improvements, and subsidies.
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The study examined the Survival of small scale businesses during covid 19 pandemic challenges, impact and strategies in Anambra State. Relevant literature was reviewed. Descriptive research design was adopted. This study was carried out in Anambra, Nigeria. The population of study comprised 7061 register small scale businesses in. Content Validity of instrument was adopted. The researcher used test retest and Cronbach’s alpha was used to verify the internal consistency of each construct in order to achieve reliability of instrument. Descriptive statistics such as mean and standard deviation was used to present quantitative data in form of tables. The study also employed Multiple Regression Analysis MRA method to evaluate the effect of COVID 19 pandemic and the survival of small scale businesses in Anambra state, Nigeria. Challenges faced by small scale businesses during the covid 19 pandemic has a positive significant effect on the survival of small scale businesses in Anambra state. Lockdown on the revenue of small scale businesses during Covid 19 pandemic has a negative significant effect on the survival of small scale businesses in Anambra state. Strategies taken for the survival of small scale businesses during Covid 19 pandemic has on positive significant effect on the survival of small scale businesses in Anambra State. The study concluded that Covid 19 survival strategies has on positive significant effect on small scale businesses in Anambra State. The study recommended that Anambra State government should drastically reduce the costs of governance and operation and provide strategies for accessing grants and loans from international community in order to enhance SMEs in the state. That the government should provide financial supports for the diversification of various aspects of small and medium enterprises SMEs such as agriculture, manufacturing, beauty cosmetics etc. in order to be responsive to the impact of COVID 19 in the country and government should provide technological equipment for effectiveness and efficiency of small and medium enterprises SMEs especially by promoting digital economy through delivery and payment system. More importantly, the focus should be on integration of the digitization into business operations in order to explore the emerging business opportunities in the country. Nwankwo Ekene Ezinwa | Uchenu Chimezie Adamma | Idemobi Ellis Ifeanyi "Survival of Small-Scale Businesses during Covid-19 Pandemic; Challenges, Impact and Strategies in Anambra State" Published in International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456-6470, Volume-7 | Issue-2 , April 2023, URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com.com/papers/ijtsrd55174.pdf Paper URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com.com/management/business-economics/55174/survival-of-smallscale-businesses-during-covid19-pandemic-challenges-impact-and-strategies-in-anambra-state/nwankwo-ekene-ezinwa
The Impact of Covid 19 Pandemic on Small and Medium Scale Enterprises’ SMEs P...YogeshIJTSRD
The objective of this study is threefold to investigate the performance of SMEs prior the cases of COVID 19 in Yobe State to examine the performance of SMEs during COVID 19 in Yobe State and to suggest measures for the resilience of the SMEs’ performance after the COVID 19 in Yobe State. The study adopted a survey research design and the sample size was 301 respondents which were selected through multi stage cluster sampling in which the State will be divided into three clusters, based on senatorial districts Zone A, Zone B, and Zone C . Simple random sampling technique was adopted to select the sample. The instruments of data collection were questionnaire and one focus group discussion FGD , thus mixed method quantitative and qualitative was employed to analyse the data for the questionnaire and the FGD, respectively. The study found out that COVID 19 has negatively affected the performance of SMEs in Yobe State. For example, many businesses have demised in Yobe State due to the closure of workplaces many SMEs have stopped operating for many months. The study concluded that SMEs have been performing greatly and they were important to the Yobe State economy before COVID 19 in State Yobe, but the incidence of the COVID 19 has brought setback to the commercial activities in the State. COVID 19 affected the performance of SMEs through closure of all firms, including SMEs due to total lockdown SMEs owners also experienced distraction and widespread panic due to the epidemic lack of raw materials because of less movement of goods and services during the pandemic. There was also the death of some owners of the SMEs especially the old ones, and expiration of some products due to lock down, and downfall of some merchants that operate SMEs in Yobe State. The study therefore recommended that government and development partners should provide soft loans and free grants for affected indigenous SMEs to get resuscitated deliberate effort at making the SMEs very strong to resist the ripple effect of the COVID 19 and save the SMEs from collapsing by operating during all forms of pandemics through online marketing. Jamaluddeen Abubakar Usman "The Impact of Covid-19 Pandemic on Small and Medium Scale Enterprises’ (SMEs) Performance in Yobe State" Published in International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456-6470, Volume-5 | Issue-3 , April 2021, URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/papers/ijtsrd40019.pdf Paper URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/management/other/40019/the-impact-of-covid19-pandemic-on-small-and-medium-scale-enterprises’-smes-performance-in-yobe-state/jamaluddeen-abubakar-usman
Impact of Covid-19 on Micro and Small Entrepreneur (MSE) Graduates of the Kap...IJAEMSJORNAL
The outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has severely affected the Micro, Small, and Medium-sized Enterprises (MSMEs). Unfortunately, small businesses are being hit hardest by the fall-out of the pandemic [1] and are being addressed by the Department of Trade Industry (DTI) with several measures and initiatives to mitigate its impact on the Philippine economy. This study was conducted to describe the status and effects of the pandemic to the Micro and Small Entrepreneur graduates of the Kapatid Mentor ME (KMME) Program of DTI in the province of Nueva Ecija, Philippines, as the agency’s guide in streamlining the future direction of the program. The descriptive method of research was used with a semi-structured one-page online survey to determine the KMME MSE graduates’ profile and the overall impact of COVID-19 pandemic particularly during the declaration of the community quarantine. The data gathered showed that most of the KMME MSE graduates continued their business operations amidst the pandemic. They are responding to the economic fall-out in several ways with optimism, government response and interventions that are significant to ensure MSEs survival. Likewise, they develop resilience through business continuity trainings, productivity improvements, and subsidies.
Survival of Small Scale Businesses during Covid 19 Pandemic Challenges, Impac...ijtsrd
The study examined the Survival of small scale businesses during covid 19 pandemic challenges, impact and strategies in Anambra State. Relevant literature was reviewed. Descriptive research design was adopted. This study was carried out in Anambra, Nigeria. The population of study comprised 7061 register small scale businesses in. Content Validity of instrument was adopted. The researcher used test retest and Cronbach’s alpha was used to verify the internal consistency of each construct in order to achieve reliability of instrument. Descriptive statistics such as mean and standard deviation was used to present quantitative data in form of tables. The study also employed Multiple Regression Analysis MRA method to evaluate the effect of COVID 19 pandemic and the survival of small scale businesses in Anambra state, Nigeria. Challenges faced by small scale businesses during the covid 19 pandemic has a positive significant effect on the survival of small scale businesses in Anambra state. Lockdown on the revenue of small scale businesses during Covid 19 pandemic has a negative significant effect on the survival of small scale businesses in Anambra state. Strategies taken for the survival of small scale businesses during Covid 19 pandemic has on positive significant effect on the survival of small scale businesses in Anambra State. The study concluded that Covid 19 survival strategies has on positive significant effect on small scale businesses in Anambra State. The study recommended that Anambra State government should drastically reduce the costs of governance and operation and provide strategies for accessing grants and loans from international community in order to enhance SMEs in the state. That the government should provide financial supports for the diversification of various aspects of small and medium enterprises SMEs such as agriculture, manufacturing, beauty cosmetics etc. in order to be responsive to the impact of COVID 19 in the country and government should provide technological equipment for effectiveness and efficiency of small and medium enterprises SMEs especially by promoting digital economy through delivery and payment system. More importantly, the focus should be on integration of the digitization into business operations in order to explore the emerging business opportunities in the country. Nwankwo Ekene Ezinwa | Uchenu Chimezie Adamma | Idemobi Ellis Ifeanyi "Survival of Small-Scale Businesses during Covid-19 Pandemic; Challenges, Impact and Strategies in Anambra State" Published in International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456-6470, Volume-7 | Issue-2 , April 2023, URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com.com/papers/ijtsrd55174.pdf Paper URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com.com/management/business-economics/55174/survival-of-smallscale-businesses-during-covid19-pandemic-challenges-impact-and-strategies-in-anambra-state/nwankwo-ekene-ezinwa
The Impact of Covid 19 Pandemic on Small and Medium Scale Enterprises’ SMEs P...YogeshIJTSRD
The objective of this study is threefold to investigate the performance of SMEs prior the cases of COVID 19 in Yobe State to examine the performance of SMEs during COVID 19 in Yobe State and to suggest measures for the resilience of the SMEs’ performance after the COVID 19 in Yobe State. The study adopted a survey research design and the sample size was 301 respondents which were selected through multi stage cluster sampling in which the State will be divided into three clusters, based on senatorial districts Zone A, Zone B, and Zone C . Simple random sampling technique was adopted to select the sample. The instruments of data collection were questionnaire and one focus group discussion FGD , thus mixed method quantitative and qualitative was employed to analyse the data for the questionnaire and the FGD, respectively. The study found out that COVID 19 has negatively affected the performance of SMEs in Yobe State. For example, many businesses have demised in Yobe State due to the closure of workplaces many SMEs have stopped operating for many months. The study concluded that SMEs have been performing greatly and they were important to the Yobe State economy before COVID 19 in State Yobe, but the incidence of the COVID 19 has brought setback to the commercial activities in the State. COVID 19 affected the performance of SMEs through closure of all firms, including SMEs due to total lockdown SMEs owners also experienced distraction and widespread panic due to the epidemic lack of raw materials because of less movement of goods and services during the pandemic. There was also the death of some owners of the SMEs especially the old ones, and expiration of some products due to lock down, and downfall of some merchants that operate SMEs in Yobe State. The study therefore recommended that government and development partners should provide soft loans and free grants for affected indigenous SMEs to get resuscitated deliberate effort at making the SMEs very strong to resist the ripple effect of the COVID 19 and save the SMEs from collapsing by operating during all forms of pandemics through online marketing. Jamaluddeen Abubakar Usman "The Impact of Covid-19 Pandemic on Small and Medium Scale Enterprises’ (SMEs) Performance in Yobe State" Published in International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456-6470, Volume-5 | Issue-3 , April 2021, URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/papers/ijtsrd40019.pdf Paper URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/management/other/40019/the-impact-of-covid19-pandemic-on-small-and-medium-scale-enterprises’-smes-performance-in-yobe-state/jamaluddeen-abubakar-usman
SME Fintech Opportunity in the Developing CountriesSam Ghosh
There were around 30 million Small and Medium Size Enterprises (SMEs) in the developing countries before the pandemic. 2/3rd of global SMEs were located in developing countries. Developing countries with top SME populations are China, Thailand, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Tanzania, India, and Brazil, etc.
Most of these SMEs in the developing countries are in the informal sector lacking formal financing options and proper business processes. The pandemic has tested these SMEs to the extreme damaging their existing sales channels, supply chain, and financing sources. Governments in the developing countries (ex. China) pushing the SMEs for digital adoption to deal with revenue losses amid social distancing. This policy support can be very beneficial for startups in the sector.
COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated digital adoption in developing countries as consumers are forced to adopt digital channels for services such as education, healthcare, and grocery, etc. At the same time, small businesses are adopting digital channels for survival. This creates a unique opportunity for tech startups serving small businesses in developing countries.
The major problems that the small businesses are facing are revenue losses, operating challenges due to social distancing, lack of credit access, supply-side issues such as labour shortages, raw material access, etc. Tech startups can tap into the market by providing solutions to these pain points - sales platforms to deal with revenue losses, process automation to deal with operating challenges, alternative lending to deal with lack of credit access, HR management technologies to deal with the labour shortages, etc.
Small businesses often do not have defined operating processes. Changing customer preferences for digital modes require that small businesses also define their internal processes. The tech companies in this sector need to hand-hold small businesses by helping them design internal processes. Process automation companies are likely to benefit from this.
Often small businesses are dependent on one or few key people. As the pandemic brought drastic changes to our daily lives, the human aspect of the pandemic cannot be ignored. For example, many female entrepreneurs experienced the increased daily burden of homeschooling their children as the schools were closed. This kind of aspect brings unique opportunities for tech companies to design products for the sector.
COVID–19: PANDEMIC RISKS AND SMES SUSTAINABILITY IN DEVELOPING NATIONS: EVIDE...ECTIJ
Due to the COVID–19 pandemic, several Small and Medium Scale Businesses have collapsed. This paper therefore examines COVID–19, risk management and SMEs sustainability in developing ations. The main objective of this paper is to suggest implementable risk management strategies that can help revamp the business operations of SMEs. The specific objectives are to ascertain the effect of COVID–19 on SMEs
business operation; and to determine the role of effective risk management strategies in revamping SMEs business operation from COVID–19 pandemic. The study made use of cross-sectional design approach which recognises that data be collected at one time. The population of this study consists of all the small and medium scale enterprises (SMEs) in Lagos State. Ordinary Least Square of Regression model was employed to test the hypotheses of this study. This paper revealed that COVID–19 has significant negative
effects on SMEs business operation; effective risk management strategies such as risk avoidance,
reduction, sharing and retention can play a significant role in revamping SMEs business operation from
COVID–19 pandemic; and adequate financing can mitigate the negative effect of Covid–19 on SMEs
business operations.
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Economic Impact of Covid 19 Pandemic on the Management of Small Scale Busines...ijtsrd
The study examines the effect of covid 19 on the performance of small scale enterprises in Nigeria. Notably, the outbreak of the highly infectious disease in December 2019 disrupted economic activities as movements were restricted and businesses shut down. As a result many businesses could not survive the onslaught due to declining demand, decreasing revenue and falling profit. This resulted in high unemployment and poverty. The study employs the chi square statistics to examine the contemporaneous dynamics between covid 19 and operations of SMEs in Nigeria. The study finds that covid 19 severely affected the growth of SMEs in Nigeria during the pandemic era. It is therefore recommended by the study that the successful containment of the problems occasioned by covid 19 will require a combination of both micro and macro policies. Thus, given the strategic position occupied by small and medium scale enterprise, government may consider measures aimed at supporting them. Alternatively, a wide array of measures should be introduced to mitigate the economic impact of the coronavirus outbreak on businesses. Lawal M. Broghoma | Magini Gideon "Economic Impact of Covid-19 Pandemic on the Management of Small Scale Business in Nigeria (A Case Study of Africana Restaurant, Otefe-Oghara)" Published in International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456-6470, Volume-5 | Issue-4 , June 2021, URL: https://www.ijtsrd.compapers/ijtsrd43657.pdf Paper URL: https://www.ijtsrd.commanagement/other/43657/economic-impact-of-covid19-pandemic-on-the-management-of-small-scale-business-in-nigeria--a-case-study-of-africana-restaurant-otefeoghara/lawal-m-broghoma
Industrial Revolution and the Market’s Perspective towards the Business Indus...ijtsrd
Industrial Revolution directly affects the Business Industry through its demands of innovation, changes, and adaptation, this research however focused on how the market gets affected by it. The results show clear effects of Industrial Revolution towards the perspective of the business industry market in terms of their needs and wants, product delivery system, and branding. This also justifies that Industrial Revolution aside from its positive contributions to the growth of the economy also brings negative impacts particularly on employment opportunities, environment, and the operations of small and medium sized businesses. This research is a good basis for a sustainable and responsible Industrial development initiative and a guide to the business industry in making sure sustainable operations. Mark Gabriel Wagan Aguilar "Industrial Revolution and the Market’s Perspective towards the Business Industry: A Macro Analysis" Published in International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456-6470, Volume-4 | Issue-3 , April 2020, URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/papers/ijtsrd30695.pdf Paper Url :https://www.ijtsrd.com/management/general-management/30695/industrial-revolution-and-the-market%E2%80%99s-perspective-towards-the-business-industry-a-macro-analysis/mark-gabriel-wagan-aguilar
The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted digital financial inclusion trends across the world in many and complex ways. In developing and emerging contexts, this crisis also holds the potential to propel an unprecedented acceleration in the process of financial digitization and turn out to be a game-changer for digital financial inclusion. The aim of this study is to illustrate the opportunities and risks associated with the surge in uptake and use of digital financial service, providing ideas on how to leverage the paradigm changes affecting the overall approach and perspective towards digital financial services on the part of various stakeholders to advance financial inclusion and development. It also seeks to showcase how digital financial services have been used in both traditional and innovative ways to mitigate the impact of the COVID-19 crisis on economies and societies, by both public and private actors.
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In this research seminar, I discuss the Covid-19 Shock and its accelerations globally and in the UAE, before presenting the results of a qualitative research, through semi-structured interviews done with 47 managers and decision-makers in the service sector. In this research, I explore: 1/ the impact of Covid-19 on organizations and the service industry, 2/ the strategies and practices adopted for recovery; 3/ the challenges and facilitators of recovery, 4/the new normal for organizations and consumers, before finalizing with the lessons and opportunities that we can learn from the crisis.
Economic impact of COVID-19 lock down on small medium enterprise (smes) in la...SubmissionResearchpa
The effect of COVID-19 has negative consequence which has been an invisible enemy raging the entire world populace leading to a global economic crisis. Business across the globe are feeling the negative outcome of the COVID 19 pandemic threatening their ongoing economic daily activities. SMEs in Nigeria are not left out in the share of this negative pandemic, limiting their survival existence. The shutdown of economic activities has greatly affected SMEs in Nigeria. This has led to employees under SMEs lose their jobs. It was concluded that adequate measures needs to be taken by government to cushion the negative effect of COVID 19 in collapsing the existence of SMEs. by Aribisala, and Oluwadamilare Olufolarin 2020. Economic impact of COVID-19 lock down on small medium enterprise (smes) in lagos state. International Journal on Integrated Education. 3, 7 (Jul. 2020), 62-68. DOI:https://doi.org/10.31149/ijie.v3i7.490. https://journals.researchparks.org/index.php/IJIE/article/view/490/467 https://journals.researchparks.org/index.php/IJIE/article/view/490
Effluent pollution is the degradation of the physical, chemical or biological properties of sewage, altered as a result of the introduction of certain substances which renders it unsafe and therefore, regarded as wastewater. This paper aims to examine the effects of effluent pollution on the socio-economic ,environment, and health status of people around (9) custodial centres in Nigeria. The study locations are Medium Security Custodial Centres Kuje (Abuja ), Kirikiri (Lagos), Suleja (Abuja ), Badagry (Lagos), Ikoyi (Lagos), Female Kirikiri (Lagos), Maximum Security Custodial centres (Kirikiri-Lagos and Port-harcourt Rivers) and Correctional Farm Centre Dukpa (Abuja) In the study, descriptive survey method was used after familiarity with the environment and selection of 372 respondents through purposive sampling technique. The process of questionnaire administration, interviews and Focused Group Discussions (FGD), was systematically applied in collection of data which were analyzed using frequency /percentage modules. Consequently, inferential statistics was adapted to test the hypothesis postulated using SPSS 20.0. The findings revealed that nature of generating wastewater from hygiene and sanitation procedure among inmates using restroom and flushing toilet at the rate of about 41-50 litres of water per inmate per day causes significant flooding, as well as generate chemical compounds which catalyses air and soil pollution. Inappropriate discharge of wastewater result to of outbreak of diseases in the custodial environment resulting in high rate of cholera, typhoid, malaria and dysentery. These health challenges constitute serious socio’- economic burden for the management of the custodian centres. The study also shows significant effects of effluent pollution in the area of study at a level of 0.05% significance. Thus, recommendations were made to proffer solution to the menace of effluent discharge on pollution crises around the environment correctional centres.
The Nigerian society of today is torn between the jealousies of Christianity and Islam, and to a little extent, the distinct, but more accommodating values and customs of the indigenous religions of the well over 250 ethnic nationalities. As it were, Nigerians still find themselves involved together in social, economic and political relationships. However, there is the crisis identity and the rights of these different cultural groups, and or orientations, of preserving their distinct ways of life, and yet working together in jointly constructing a society that enhances their self-worth, self-esteem and self-realization at their deepest level of existence. Our paper acknowledges the spate of global interaction in this new world in the making which spirit has forced or fused the coexistence of individuals of different ideological political, religious and moral persuasions. The paper argues on this score that the resultant agitations of these religious groups are what counts as the tensions of the present polity. that, the manipulation of religion or religious practices as a form of discrimination as is evident in the prosecution of the Sharia project violates the rights of other citizens. The paper argues on a second count that, religious pluralism is not contrary to the values and customs of the Nigerian social system, and that, the different religious persuasions, which outlook and practices sometimes contradicts each other; apparently diverse and opposed, are simply expressions from different viewpoints and by different method of one ultimate truth which has the capacity for national integration, social harmony and sustainable human development. The paper advances a philosophy of religious tolerance as an institutional frame and atmosphere in which humanity shares in the richness of its different traditions for a better and more humanized world.
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Exploring Sustainable Entrepreneur Creativity in Post Covid 19 Pandemic: A Case Study of Some Selected Businesses in Zambia
1. Exploring Sustainable Entrepreneur Creativity in Post Covid 19
Pandemic: A Case Study of Some Selected Businesses in Zambia
Irene Mpulubusi Chimoga, DBA
Rusangu University, Monze, Zambia
ABSTRACT
In most developing countries like Zambia, entrepreneurs contribute largely in a society’s economic growth
and major interruptions such as the COVID-19 pandemic can have a negative impact on the well-being of its
citizenry and businesses. The onset of the COVID 19 pandemic found many entrepreneurs unprepared and
hence several businesses in societies were profoundly disrupted. During this crisis, entrepreneurs faced
unexpected new challenges of creating sustainable business strategies. As a result, due to uncertainties of
whether the COVID-19 pandemic would end soon or not, most of the businesses had limited choices of
either to lay off workers or to close because they had not planned for creative and resilient entrepreneurial
strategies that allowed businesses to form stronger growth approaches during these challenges. The
objective of the study was to identify sustainable entrepreneur creative strategies in the Post-COVID-19
pandemic in Zambia. A theoretical framework to back the study was formulated. The study employed a
descriptive research design, through a purposeful face-to-face interview from selected entrepreneurs in the
Southern Province of Zambia. The findings suggest that entrepreneurs need to apply creative factors that are
technologically innovative so that they can move away from the standardized norms of physical mortar and
brick that lack sustainability. The recommendation to explore further creative entrepreneurial sustainable
strategies for future business improvement in the Post-COVID–19 era and beyond are still required.
Keywords: Post-COVID-19 era, COVID-19 pandemic, entrepreneur, sustainable, technological innovation,
economic growth, business creativity
INTRODUCTION
Sustainable entrepreneur creativity in the post COVID-19 pandemic has become a critical concern by most
of the businesses in Zambia. This is because the effects of the pandemic disrupted most areas of Zambian
life especially that of businesses. Due to its unpreparedness, Zambia’s government reacted decisively to the
threat, shutting down many businesses, schools, and other social gatherings prior to the first confirmed cases
(Kafula, et al. 2021). As a result, entrepreneurs seemed to have no means of coping with this unexpected
situation. Haeffele, et al (2021) resonates that there is need to change this aspect by obtaining competences
that can enhance business growth. When it happens, entrepreneurs can access local knowledge, and will be
alert to the changing necessities of their communities. Thus, local commercial and social entrepreneurs need
to position strategically in providing the goods and services that community members need. They should
then apply creative factors that are technologically innovative in order to move away from the standardized
norms of physical mortar and brick that lack sustainability. According to Nawa, (2017) the population of the
province was 1,589,926 accounting to 12.08% of the total Zambian population of 13,092,666. Southern
Province is a predominantly rural district and hence there are not a lot of city or municipal councils. The
government stipulates 63 different functions for the councils with the majority of them being infrastructure
management and local administration. The Southern Province is the fifth largest province in terms of area,
while the fourth largest province in terms of population. Southern Province ranks third with GDP
contribution of 11.1%. The figure blow illustrates the main economic towns of Southern province.
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2. Figure 1
Southern province is the fifth largest in Zambia (population 1,589,926) on Lusaka-Livingstone road
running through its towns: Livingstone, Kalomo, Choma, Pemba, Monze, and Mazabuka. (Nawa, 2017)
Several researchers have conducted studies on the social and economic challenges faced by small businesses
during the COVID-19 crisis in different nations of the world (Castro, Gomez, and Macela 2020; Gorzelany,
Magdalena, 2021; Belitski and Kalyuzhnova 2021). A limited number of studies have focused on small
medium enterprises (SMEs)’practices for survival post COVID-19 pandemic. Adam and Alarifi, (2021)
showed that SMEs have used financial and marketing strategies for survival when faced with the
repercussions of the COVID-19 crisis. Their findings are significant because they focused on SMEs’ long-
term, rather than short-term, performance. However, the impact of these strategic responses on SMEs’ long-
term performance and their potential for efficiency need further study. Hence, a gap in the literature still
exists concerning the sustainable entrepreneur creativity in the post COVID-19 pandemic strategies adopted
by businesses in Southern Province, Zambia. Zambia, like many other countries faced the unexpected
announcement of the onset of COVID-19 crisis in March 2020. In response to the crisis, severe restrictions
imposed on public gatherings included closure of schools and all other types of businesses. This experience
affected the small businesses and entrepreneurs in that most of them had to cease operations because they
lacked sustainable strategies that allowed businesses to form creative growth approaches during this period.
Research has identified the influence of entrepreneurial action on the outcomes extended by external
conditions like new technologies, economic and natural environments associated with the pandemics like
COVID-19 (Buck, DeWaal and Maritz, (2020). Since the end of the crisis is unknown, it is crucial for
entrepreneurs and other sectors to create strategies that can affect sustainable business growth. As noted
above, the Covid-19 crisis disrupted societies and intensely altered lives in Zambia because of its
unexpected onset. The present life’s circumstances have been extraordinarily shaped by persistent societal
realities such as entrenched social and economic uncertainties. In trying to chart a path forward,
entrepreneurs and business owners are anxious on how they can apprehend the crisis by seeking sustainable
creative strategies that will be resilient in the post COVID-19 pandemic. In light of the aforementioned, the
objective of the article is to explore sustainable entrepreneur creativity in the post COVID-19 pandemic
from selected businesses in Southern Province, Zambia by posing the following study questions:
To what extent did COVID-19 pandemic cause an economic-social crisis to entrepreneurs in Southern
province, Zambia?
Which technological innovations can be adopted to improve business strategies in the post COVID-
19?
What type of sustainable entrepreneur creative strategies can be practiced in the post COVID-19
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3. pandemic?
METHODOLOGY
The approaches followed in this study to achieve the established objective were descriptive research and
purposeful sampling. In purposive sampling researchers, thoroughly think through how they will establish a
sample population, even if it is not statistically representative of the greater population at hand (Alchemer,
2021). The purposeful sampling was to understand the critical factors leading to utilization of network
relationships and innovative technology to overcome business interruptions during the Post-COVID-19
pandemic era. The data collected used a structured face-to-face interview questionnaire from fifty business
owners purposefully selected from the various businesses of Livingstone, Choma and Mazabuka. The fifty
business owners selected were employment providers to the vast population of Southern Province and had
adequate information on experiences learned; had evidence on experiences during periods of both the onset
and the post-COVID-19 pandemic periods. The target population comprised of entrepreneurs involved in
small service businesses in Southern Province, specifically restaurants, beauty parlors (salons and
barbershop) and private schools. Fifty respondents fully responded to the questionnaires, which were
constructed and administered verbally on site. The questionnaire also consisted of a demographic section
used to capture respondents’ length of time in business to get a more depth information on the subject. A
theoretical framework model was formulated based on the variables in the study. Data was analyzed using
descriptive statistics and interpreted by continuous bar charts.
Theoretical Framework
Figure 2. Theoretical framework of the Study
Post-COVID 19 Entrepreneur creativities
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4. RESULTS
The data findings show that of the 50 respondents, 46 entrepreneurs indicated that the COVID-19 pandemic
caused an economic-social crisis to entrepreneurs in southern province. 3 respondents who indicated that
their businesses were not affected were foreign based chain restaurants and had support to survive the crisis
and one responded indicated ‘somehow (see figure 3 below).
Figure 3: Data showing how the COVID-19 pandemic caused economic-social crisis to entrepreneurs.
The data findings below show that out of 50 correspondences 48 entrepreneurs indicated that they believe
there are technological innovations that can be adopted to improve business strategies in the post COVID-
19. (See figure 4 below)
Figure 4: Data indicating how far entrepreneurs are willing to learn new technological innovations to improve business
strategies in the post COVID-19
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5. The data findings below show that out of 50 respondents, 48 indicated that while the onset of COVID-19
brought about business disruptions, at the same time, the crisis has also initiated a strong drive of creativity
and innovation in doing businesses (see figure 5).
Figure 5: Data showing that there are sustainable entrepreneur creative strategies that can be practiced in the post
COVID-19 pandemic
The data results below comprehensively demonstrate years of business existence; as can be observed, the
vast majority 75% were between five and ten years in business existence (see table 1below).
Years of business operation
Years Frequency Percentages
Less than 3 0 0%
5 – 10 25 75%
6 – 12 15 10%
13 – 15 10 0.9%
More than 20 2 0.6%
Total 50 100%
Table 1: Data showing respondents’ years of business operation to evidence experience in business
ANALYSIS AND DISCUSSION
Results to the question as to whether entrepreneurs learned new technological innovations to improve
business strategies in the post COVID-19, indicated that the government instructions to immediately close
the businesses also led to significant actions of economic-social dilemma for the entrepreneur ‘world’ and
the surrounding environment. All the three types of businesses: restaurants, schools and beauty palours fell
into a similar crisis and had no choice but to close the premises while waiting either for the COVID-19
pandemic to end or for further guidelines from the government. The findings suggested that current
business strategies are not sustainable and lack technological innovations to continue operating, thus causing
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6. an economic-social crisis to the entrepreneurs. Hence, the onset of COVID-19 pandemic brought about
lessons of change for entrepreneurism in Southern Province, Zambia to adapt technologically innovative
business strategies that are resilient so that they can continue to exist during any other unforeseen
pandemics. In addition, the post COVID-19 has opened doors of opportunity on how the utilization of
innovative digital platforms can lead to business success; innovation can significantly contribute to
adaptability. According to Estrin et, al. (2020) innovation can be defined as the introduction of a new
product, production method, opening a new market, access to a new source of materials and reorganization
of a business. In addition, (Dziadkowiec 2021) states that innovation is a new idea that when implemented,
leads to a more effective process, product, service or technology.
The restaurant business in Zambia was generally the most economically impacted especially in Livingstone,
which has the most tourist populace. By nature of its operation in food handling and exchange of utensils
such as plates and paper menus, it attracts easier spread of germs. In the post COVID -19 pandemic,
restaurants are learning to lessen printing of paper menus and instead are introducing technological
mechanisms that are uploaded on customer applications (APPS). Such creativity is new to Zambian
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that older customers can be encouraged to continue patronizing the restaurants. In this aspect, restaurants,
are responding to creativity in post COVID-19 through social distancing by changing floor plans for
restaurants to meet COVID-19 guidelines and optimizing the seating capacity. That way, customers who
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order to limit transmission of germs. Schools in Zambia have learned to implement innovative dividers and
shields while spacing students out to ensure proper spacing. Further, most schools are now taking e-learning
to a higher level by means of online syllabus from primary to tertiary level. This entails that the e-learning
process should have a platform that equips the learners with tools that provide clear course content and
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In the same vein, the instructors are being accorded with detailed systematically of creative online teaching
information. In as much, beauty parlour businesses in Zambia face more challenges because of the nature of
business activities; it is difficult to socially distance the customer and the service provider. Despite these
challenges, there has been innovative strategies that are being adopted to enhance creativity in the post
COVID- 19 pandemic. Additionally, beauty palours are employing innovative means of open indoors with
modified individualized components that have less open floor arrangement and set in one meter apart. For
example, to restructure buildings to make the waiting area larger. Ideally, customers make online service
reservations to avoid crowding the reception area. In addition, payment modes through mobile money and
any other cash transfer mediums have increased to avoid exchange of germs. Furthermore, entrepreneurs in
Zambia are beginning to understand that innovation provides better solutions that meet advanced,
unaddressed or existing business needs. Innovation can be considered as a breakthrough that provides a
different way of thinking, consumption or living. However, the key element of innovation is the
precondition noted above: “when implemented “. Without implementation, “innovation” turns back to the “
idea” status (Galanakis, 2016). Thus, when applied, innovation ensures entrepreneurs economic survival
regardless of the environmental changes that may occur. Innovation involves applying creativity that brings
with it unique solutions and ideas. Innovation is a technological or digital invention that positions an
entrepreneurial to do things that could not previously be done (Mitzkus, 2022). Hence, in the post COVID-
19, technological innovation should take the center stage. Digital space infrastructure is now replacing the
physical workplace; technology has leveled the playing field to amplify human insight and talent. Digital
adoption has taken a quantum leap at both the organizational and entrepreneurial level (McKinsey 2021).
Thus, the expectation is that innovation will now be the backbone of every business growth; a business that
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7. does not embrace innovation is likely to sink in profits. Angwenyi (2020) indicated that COVID-19 has had
adverse effects on the African continent and in particular businesses and SMEs. This entails that the
entrepreneurs were limited in reserved cash flows that could have easily acquired technological devices to
penetrate into new markets during the pandemic. For example, when the Zambian government announced
the discontinuity of businesses, there were no immediate technological strategies to remain in business. The
innovations of business strategies that entrepreneurs have adopted include, for example, digital technologies.
These approaches allow employees to remain in employment and businesses to maintain continuity; thus
avoiding extreme decrease in capacity utilization by having their employees work from their homes and
continue to earn an income. Consequently, in order to enhance technological innovation of businesses in the
post COVID-19 pandemic, respondents outlined the following strategies: to be proactive and to restructure
the restaurants by modeling social distancing floor plans to meet the COVID-19 health guidelines as well as
optimizing capacity. This way, patrons can still safely seat and eat in the restaurant. The restaurants are also
creating online APPS for food orders and home deliveries (refer to Figure 5). On the question that was
asking on how entrepreneurs can learn new technological innovations to improve business strategies in the
post COVID-19; the respondents indicated that entrepreneurs had no contingency budgets to purchase the
urgent needed hand sanitizers, hand washing techniques, take-way, and other necessary utensils. In addition,
infrastructures lacked adequate space to accommodate the patrons in restaurants. This response indicated to
some extent, that most businesses in Southern Province need strategic financial planning for emergency
crisis such as the COVID-19 pandemic. That way, they would not have closed for a much longer time;
instead, they would have economically revived sooner. Amadeo (2017) defines economic growth as how
much more the economy produces than it did in the prior period. To this regard, if the economy is producing
more, businesses are more profitable and stock prices rise. Economic growth, is an important concept of
development economics, it is a crucial step in the development ladder. According to Chirwa & Odhiambo
(2016), the achievement of high and sustainable rates of economic growth is a central theme in many
economies in the world.
One of the significant facts arising from empirical growth studies is that economic growth rates vary a great
deal from country to country and over long periods of time (Mankiw et al., 1995 as cited in Chirwa &
Odhiambo, 2016). Thus, Zambia needs innovation to enhance economic growth, wealth creation,
employment creation and ultimately to make profit in post COVID-19 periods. Furthermore, in Zambia,
economic growth in the post COVID-19 will be triggered mainly by lessons learned during the highest of
pandemic peak periods. The COVID-19 crisis has brought about years of change in the way companies
should now do businesses. Thus, the results show that innovative strategies can be learned through reading,
research, observation from other businesses both locally and globally to improve business strategies in the
post COVID-19 pandemic period. On the question, that was asking on how sustainable entrepreneur creative
strategies can be practiced in the post COVID-19 pandemic; the results, show that there are sustainable
entrepreneur creative strategies that can be practiced in the post COVID-19 pandemic. While the onset of
COVID-19 brought about business disruptions, at the same time, the crisis has also initiated a strong drive
of creativity and innovation in doing businesses. As earlier stated, the onset of COVID-19 pandemic found
most entrepreneurs in Zambia unprepared in the hard environmental conditions, an aspect that has motivated
creativity. Creativity is a crucial skill for an entrepreneur, and helps in delivering interesting processes and
products (Artiga, Waweru and Lopez (2021). Thus, entrepreneurs need to learn innovative creativity in the
post COVID-19 era by adopting sustainable strategies that will enhance continuous business survival. The
respondents’ sentiments were also expressed in the literature above, “the successful entrepreneur is able to
marshal sufficient resources to start a business and then learn how to develop the new venture’s capabilities
to achieve prolonged sustainable growth” (Shane & Venkataraman, 2000). Creativity is a skill that an
entrepreneur must have to generate some inventive ideas and make the entrepreneurial process a big
success. It allows the business to devise some interesting strategies that give advantage to the entrepreneurs.
Exploring new niches and generating new ideas lead to efficiency and eventually gave an entrepreneur the
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8. required edge over the competition. To this regards, creativity enables an entrepreneur to get new
perspectives towards business processes. Eventually creativity helps an entrepreneur to discontinue the old
methods of doing business and begin a path of new discoveries that are likely to be resilient in the post
COVID-19 era. This also means that entrepreneurs are learning every day to invest in utensils that are
suitable to these new menu types. While the post COVID-19 era seems to promise normality and patrons are
beginning to dine out more, restaurants are fitting creative safety measures such as installing Plexiglas
barriers between customers and staff, just for more safe precautions. The COVID-19 pandemic mistakes are
daily teaching restaurant businesses in the region to use innovative sales strategy of contactless deliverables,
For example, they prepare and package meals and deliver around the neighbourhood and office buildings
without prior orders. This strategy has also taught employees to accept changes that businesses are adopting,
for example, the use of pre-cooked packed meals for students, working class and other demographics in
Southern Province.
The verbatim responses of three respondents are included as follows:
First respondent stated:
“Even though COVID-19 was devastating, it taught entrepreneur management skills”.
A second respondent said: “technologic innovations are the ‘new life’.
That every business must endevour to embrace innovation; it plays a very critical role in the success of
entrepreneurial management when applied correctly”.
The third respondent:
“To ensure creative strategies, sustainable use of digital business should be the now future; businesses
should budget for the unforeseen pandemics so that they can be resilient to disruptions like that of COVID-
19”.
The above responses are in line with the view that it is important to explore sustainable entrepreneur
creativity in the post COVID-19 pandemic that can significantly improve economic growth.
Implications of the study
The findings of this study have implications and insights for entrepreneurs, business managers and
researchers interested in gaining an understanding of technological innovative strategies in economic
growth. Therefore, this study adds to both theory and practice of sustainable creativity practices of
managing businesses in the post COVID-19 pandemic era and beyond. It underscores the point that resilient
entrepreneurs are likely to face fewer risks in the management of their businesses in the future if they keep
learning on more and better creative business strategies.
Limitations of the study
The study had some limitations:
Firstly, the study was service industry specific, that is, data collected was from three types of businesses in
Southern Province only. The findings are thus applicable to the service sector only and cannot be
generalised beyond this sector. Secondly, the sample size of the study was small and this would affect the
generalisability of the results to the restaurants, beauty palour and schools as a whole.
Thirdly, the research findings reflect the views or experiences of the respondents who participated in the
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9. survey and do not necessarily represent those of the businesses.
CONCLUSION
The sustainable entrepreneur creativities can successfully improve in the post COVID-19. The novel
techniques as indicated in the theoretical framework formulated in this study should include: Restructuring
the restaurants by modeling social distancing floor plans to meet the COVID-19 guidelines as well as
optimizing capacity. Schools and other learning institutions to rethink post-COVID classrooms with
appropriate furniture that promotes social distancing in order to limit transmission of germs. Implementing
dividers and shields while spacing students out to ensure proper social distancing. Additionally schools
should plan to offer blended learning so that students can access online schooling. Beauty palours should
create open indoors with modifications for individualized components with less open floor arrangement.
That way, each client can have customized space and washing basins to avoid sharing equipment. Thus
sustainable innovative entrepreneurial creativity strategies will in the long-term result in improved business
growth, increased job creation and increased access to local and international markets.
RECOMMENDATIONS
Based on the findings, the following are the recommendations:
The entrepreneurs and business communities ought to be empowered with sustainable innovative
technologies to improve the economic growth of Southern Province.
The government through the Ministry of Education to set up sustainable infrastructure such as
classrooms and secured facilities that can stand any type of pandemics.
Ministry of Technology and Innovation to collaborate with the researchers to commence local
sensitization programs on the impact of sustainable business creativities and their impact on the
economic to the communities.
This study is not conclusive, because more information is still required to understand if the suggested
creative strategies are sustainable for all businesses in both rural and urban towns of Zambia. Thus, research
on entrepreneurial creativity in the post COVID-19 pandemic should be an ongoing process for as long as
businesses exist and unforeseen pandemics are likely to recur.
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