20.500.12556/DKUM-89524 Assessing the situation of micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises in the emerging markets of Egypt under COVID-19 implications Micro, Small, and Medium-sized Enterprises (MSMEs) play a vital role in emerging economies, thus this research aims at assessing the current situation of Egyptian MSMEs under COVID-19 pandemic and identifying the role of Egyptian MSMEs in economic growth and development. This research adopted qualitative design; 24 semi-structured interviews were conducted with different eco-system stakeholders and MSMEs’ managers using content analysis to analyse collected data based on NVivo software. The findings revealed the importance of MSMEs sector in the emerging markets as well as global ones. Additionally, MSMEs play a significant role in enhancing country’s economic growth and development, particularly in GDP, job opportunities, domestic products/services, national income, sub-contractor, and individual/society welfare. Furthermore, the findings identify the main challenges that face Egyptian MSMEs under COVID-19 implications through analysing the four main strategic factors and concluded by policy recommendations that could be implemented by MSMEs’ owners to take full advantage in the Egyptian context and their contribution on country’s economic growth. MSMEs sector COVID-19 economic growth egyptian context policy action mikropodjetja majhna podjetja srednje velika podjetja egipčanski kontekst ekonomska rast politika true false false Lucian Blaga University Press Angleški jezik Slovenski jezik Znanstveno delo 2024-07-17 14:51:57 2024-07-17 15:03:42 2024-07-18 03:38:28 0000-00-00 00:00:00 2023 0 0 Str. 270-289 Št. 2 Letn. 18 Aug. 2023 0000-00-00 Zaloznikova Objavljeno NiDoloceno 0000-00-00 0000-00-00 2023-09-20 005:330.3 165040899 10.2478/sbe-2023-0037 2344-5416 Saad-2023-Assessing_the_Situation_of_Micro,_Sm.pdf Saad-2023-Assessing_the_Situation_of_Micro,_Sm.pdf 1 DFA6220990D4D3294ABAB32BF1386900 20267346f3d0782253cb7d3d77bcc0b22f01e15c8703afdb9f8144697fab293b 996d8dc5-443c-11ef-b9e8-00155d000105 https://dk.um.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=181574 https://doi.org/10.2478/sbe-2023-0037 0 6328b661-443b-11ef-b9e8-00155d000105 https://dk.um.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=181573 Fakulteta za logistiko 0 0 0