Introduction
Globally, the year 2020 will not stop ringing an unstoppable sound in the hearts of individuals and institutions for many years to come. Economic, social, and institutional activities came to a total halt, because international, national, inter-regional, and in some cases, state and citywide movements were brought to a total halt. Fear was rife because an unknown pandemic was out there and the government was doing everything possible to stop its spread. Entrepreneurial activities came to a standstill, while small and medium-scale entrepreneurs whose sustenance came from their business activities were forced to lock shop, lay off employees, and stay at home. People were instructed to "stay at home" for several months and some cases almost two years. To some people, the question was, where is home since they spent most of their time at work or business and hardly interacted with the family at ‘home’? While to others, the home was family.
A family has been defined by the Health Resources and Services Administration (2022) as a unit of two or more persons related by birth, marriage, or adoption that stay together; hence, all such associated individuals are deemed as members of one family. Scholars report increased pandemic-related domestic violence (Zang, 2020), substantial declines from prior to the pandemic to the early months of the pandemic in child suppressing and expressing difficulties and parental depression, as well as a relative decline in co-parenting quality (Feinberg, Mogle, Lee, Tornello, et al., 2022). Deterioration of parents' and children's wellness due to the quarantine measures was also reported (Spinelli, Lionetti, Pastore, & Fasolo, 2020). Similarly, small, medium, and micro-entrepreneurs were mostly hit as many of them lived off daily/weekly, and or monthly income earned from their businesses. Opportunistic entrepreneurs became necessity entrepreneurs due to slow return on investment and pandemic-associated influences. Belas, Gavurora, Pastore, Cepel, and Durana (2022) report that most SMEs had a significantly poor financial performance because of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Although families faced several changes both negative and positive, they have often demonstrated resilience in managing changes (Eales, Ferguson, Gillespie, Smoyer, & Carlson, 2021) hence, families were the first to bounce back after the pandemic. In the same manner, Igbinakhase (2021) is of the opinion that SMEs also showed resilience and were able to adapt their operations to cope during and after the post-pandemic periods. Entrepreneurship and the family can, therefore, be aligned to buffer the recovery of communities, institutions, businesses, and society at large in the volatile, uncertain, complicated, and ambiguous times of the post-covid-19 pandemic.
The proposed book will adopt a multi-disciplinary approach to appraising and managing the subject matter. Contributions from scholars in the Humanities, Business Management, Entrepreneurship, Human Resource Management, Innovations and Technology, Psychology, Governance, and Law are acceptable for the proposed book. The ‘teaching case’ approach to writing should be adopted by contributors to this book.