Research workProjectsInstitution where project manager will implement the project: Faculty of Economics and Business in Osijek
Project manager: Prof. Nataša Šarlija, PhD (natasa.sarlija@efos.hr)
Researchers: Prof. Slavica Singer, PhD (Faculty of Economics and Business in Osijek), Assist. Prof. Dražen Novaković, PhD (Faculty of Economics and Business in Osijek), Prof. Mirta Benšić, PhD (Faculty of Applied Mathematics and Informatics), Prof. Saras Sarasvathy, PhD (University of Virginia, Darden Graduate School of Business), Lucia Walsh, PhD (Technological University Dublin, Ireland), Cesare Riillo, PhD (National Institute of Statistical and Economic Studies of Luxembourg), Charles Plant, PhD (The Narwhal Project at Q3 Research Inc., Canada), Auwal Isah (Bayero University, Nigeria)
Project identifier: IP-2025-02-2518
Project duration (in months): 36
The project is financed by the Croatian Science Foundation.
The purpose of this research project is to investigate the resilience of small and medium-sized enterprises.
Resilience in the context of the entrepreneurial activities of small and medium-sized enterprises has only recently begun to be studied more intensively. Very often, the term ‘resilience’ is used in articles to denote a wide range of concepts—success, survival, persistence, optimism. The diversity of perspectives and approaches in resilience research demonstrates the complexity of this term; however, the challenge lies in the lack of consensus regarding the definition of entrepreneurial resilience.
The concept of ‘resilience’ was first used in the context of entrepreneurial resilience by Meyer in 1982, who identified it as an adaptive organisational response to external threats (as cited in Wishart, 2018). Since then, the focus of researchers has expanded to include the investigation of both external and internal organisational threats (Linnenluecke, 2017), and more recently, various factors influencing resilience have been explored.
