• Media type: Report; E-Book
  • Title: What determines the adaptation of enterprises to COVID-19 in CAREC member countries: Empirical evidence from Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kazakhstan, and Mongolia
  • Contributor: Aseinov, Dastan [Author]; Sulaimanova, Burulcha [Author]; Karymshakov, Kamalbek [Author]; Azhgaliyeva, Dina [Author]
  • imprint: Tokyo: Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI), 2022
  • Language: English
  • Keywords: micro ; small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) ; COVID-19 ; O53 ; Central Asia ; Caucasus ; adaptation ; J63 ; D22 ; L25 ; digitalization
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  • Description: This study empirically investigated the factors affecting firms' ability to adjust production in response to the COVID-19 outbreak. This study used firm-level survey data from the Enterprise Survey implemented by the World Bank Group, including a standard Enterprise Survey (Baseline) and two waves of Follow-up Surveys conducted in 2020 and 2021, which included questions related to COVID-19 and firm behavior during the pandemic. We used data from four CAREC member countries: Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kazakhstan, and Mongolia. Using a probit model, we studied how different factors, including firm characteristics and government policy, affected the probability that a firm would be able to adjust its activities to the changed conditions. The results showed that firms which successfully adapted to the COVID-19 crisis were younger, foreign firms that had been innovative in the recent past, with female managers, a formal firm strategy with key performance indicators, and their own website.
  • Access State: Open Access
  • Rights information: Attribution - Non Commercial - No Derivs (CC BY-NC-ND)