Impact of Covid-19 Pandemic on the Small Medium Entity Growth: Evidence from GCC

The paper intends to understand the research trends in Covid-19 and SMEs through a literature review and explores the most affected areas of SMEs during the Covid-19 pandemic. The study attempts to highlight the struggles of SMEs during Covid-19 crisis in the GCC. This paper gives a clear understanding of the current state of the research regarding the topic, i.e., the impact of COVID-19 on SMEs in the GCC, being investigated in a comprehensive platform. This paper calls for crisis management during turbulent times such as pandemics. More particularly this paper suggests developing strategies for employee engagement and voice that would lead to solidarity behavior and comradery among employees and managers of SMEs under crisis.