TY - JOUR AU - Dangol, Jeetendra AU - Chitrakar, Sunil AU - Yoo, Kee-Seon PY - 2020/12/31 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Impact of COVID-19 on Nepalese Small and Medium Enterprises JF - Journal of Business and Social Sciences Research JA - J. Bus. Soc. Sci. Res. VL - 5 IS - 2 SE - Articles DO - 10.3126/jbssr.v5i2.35230 UR - https://www.nepjol.info/index.php/jbssr/article/view/35230 SP - 1-14 AB - <p>This study seeks to explore the impact of COVID-19 on Nepalese SMEs. This study is based on 41 respondents from Nepalese SMEs, conducted in the first two weeks of August 2020. The questionnaires are developed in 4-point Likert scale on five major areas: current business challenges, firm’s respond to COVID-19, social response, SMEs’ perception on post COVID-19 and government’s response to COVID-19. The questionnaires are pretested for content validity and found internal consistency of instruments. The study used mean, standard deviation, and match t-test. The Nepalese SMEs give importance to social response, followed by firm’s response to COVID-19 and current business challenges. However, Nepalese SMEs are unsatisfied with the government’s response to COVID-19 and the role of government is inevitable in safeguarding SMEs.</p> ER -