Table 1.
Locating the study with inclusion and exclusion criteria.
| Inclusion criteria | |
| Search String | (*COVID* OR Pandemic OR *Corona* OR SARS OR Lockdown) AND (Entrepreneur* OR {SME*} OR {MSME*} OR Start*up* OR Spin*off* OR Silicon Valley * OR High*Tech* OR NTBF* OR Small busines* OR Family busines* OR Life*style busines* OR Marginal* OR unorganized sector*) |
| Search period | From: not specified (open-ended) To: 18 Oct 2020 |
| Search location | Title, Abstract, Keywords |
| Type of Document | Article, Conference article, Editorial, Business case studies, book chapters |
| Database used | Scopus and Web of Science (WoS) |
| Merging Database | 427 (331 documents from Scopus and 96 from WoS) 94 WoS documents were found in the Scopus database also. 331 Scopus +2 from WoS = 333 document |
| Exclusion criteria | |
| Duplicates | 34 documents: Balance = 299 document |
| Non-English documents | 14 documents: Balance = 285 document Documents in Chinese, Russian, Spanish, German, Portuguese, and Italian were removed |
| Irrelevant documents | 131 documents, after reading their abstract.
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