The research seminar aims to present and discuss the final results of the project “Learning from the COVID-19 pandemic: strategic behavior of small and medium-sized businesses in the times of crisis” implemented with the support of the Russian Science Foundation (project No. 21-78-10024, https:// rscf.ru/project/21-78-10024/) in 2021-2024. The project is dedicated to identifying aspects of the strategic behavior of small and medium-sized enterprises that can increase organizational resilience to crisis and improve business performance, as well as to identifying the main trends in the development of entrepreneurship in the post-pandemic period in a turbulent external environment.

Program:

12:00 a.m. – 12:10 a.m. – start of the event, greetings

12:10 a.m. – 1:10 p.m. – presentation by Karina Bogatyreva: “Main results of the project implementation”; Olga Verkhovskaya: “Entrepreneurship in Russia: what has changed over the recent years?”, Smara Rafik: “Innovative ambidexterity of SMEs: Factors of formation and performance implications”

1:10 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. – discussion

Karina Bogatyreva, Candidate of Economic Sciences, Associate Professor of the Department of Strategic and International Management;

Olga Verkhovskaya, Candidate of Economic Sciences, Associate Professor of the Department of Strategic and International Management;

Rafik Smara, Assistant of the Department of Strategic and International Management.

Nikita Porokhin

Leading specialist, Grants and scientific awards coordination and support department, Research support service SPbU

n.porokhin@gsom.spbu.ru