Citation:

MARTINEZ, Danalyn Dones DBA. "Navigating Entrepreneurial Resilience: A Phenomenological Study of Small Business Owners in Tandag City, Surigao del Sur" International Research Journal of Economics and Management Studies, Vol. 4, No. 10, pp. 37-43, 2025. Crossref. http://doi.org/10.56472/25835238/IRJEMS-V4I10P106

Abstract:

The study is about Tandag City, Surigao del Sur small business owners living and surviving various challenges of urban entrepreneurship.To do with resilience in just these circumstances, this study first uses a qualitative phenomenological method to try and get examples of the entrepreneur's display and nature.Resilience is a concept that, for the entrepreneurial designer, has to be constantly dealt with. It results from the interplay between ends (such as financial pressure, bureaucratic encumbrances and the habitats that man today has) and the approaches to achieving ends used internally within oneself. The detailed interviews with entrepreneurs reveal seven themes: Cash flow problems and financial stress; bureaucratic barriers and regulatory compliance; The reliance of entrepreneurs on their own resources in difficult times; Depending heavily for support on the social community; The adaptation of new technologies and digital innovation to the development of small businesses; Emotional coping strategies in stressful situations as well as surviving these crises of spirit without killing oneself off by accident; They expect or hope that government institutional structures such as banks and the People's Sithubric Region Agent will give them help when they eventually decide to go winding down their businesses into retirement or else leaving altogether from town to start in some other place (which doesn't actually make much money at all).The findings suggest that resilience of small business owners in Tandag City relies not so much on the entrepreneur's personal characteristics but is instead an ongoing adaptative process that is fed by tolerance and skillful living.The study illustrates that improving entrepreneurial resilience requires proactive government policies, digital literacy programs, and support systems that address both structural and personal aspects of entrepreneurship.This paper gives new meaning to an ongoing discussion about rural entrepreneurship: The development of a local company through resilience is as much a factor on which success rests as is the investment climate.

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Keywords:

Entrepreneurial Resilience, Phenomenology, Small Business, Rural Entrepreneurship, Tandag City, Surigao del Sur.