The Role and Place of the Crisis Traps in the Development of the Small Business of the Forest Sector in the Russian Economy

Abstract

The article identifies the role and place of crisis traps in the development of the small business of the forest sector in the Russian Economy through the life cycle stagesorigination stage (crisis innovative trap), formation stage (crisis organizing trap), growth stage (crisis financial trap), maturity stage (crisis marketing trap). The emergence of crisis traps is connected with specific features of small forestry business development and functioning. Sustainable small forest business development depends on management actions on minimization and overcoming crisis manifestations. It is proved that it is possible to avoid the threat of falling into crisis traps, the crisis symptoms emergence, situations and processes in the small forestry business development due to forming program of the management actions and organizational tools to perform it.

'All you need is... entrepreneurial attitudes': a deeper look into the propensity to start a business during the COVID-19 through a gender comparison (GEM data)

“…Global crises, such as COVID-19, are thought to disrupt entrepreneurs' control of their businesses' regular management (Medvedeva et al, 2016;Panyavina et al, 2017), due to uncertainties in both an indefinite 'deadline' for the crisis and its potentially wideranging, destructive effects on their businesses (Elliott et al, 2002). Crises are unexpected, unpredictable events of large significance and severe consequences that can produce dramatic global changes (Lagadec, 2009;Topper and Lagadec, 2013;Winston, 2020), causing susceptible effects to systemic shocks in various groups (Brown et al, 2020;DesJardine et al, 2019;Kwong et al, 2019).…”

Economic Aspects of Organizing High-technology Resource Saving Production in the Forest Sector of Russia

“…Development of innovations in the industrial sector of Russia is becoming a state priority since the beginning of the XXI century, and industrial policy is beginning to be viewed inextricably linked to innovation. Structural problems of national industry are directly related to the insufficient level of its innovation development (Panyavina, 2017). Innovations are declared to be the main instrument for national industry modernization and its competitiveness enhancement.…”