Micro and Small Businesses in the Context of the Pandemic

Abstract

In Brazil, a state of public calamity was decreed, being regulated by Law nº 13.979 of February 6, 2020, which provided for measures to deal with the public health emergency of international importance arising from the coronavirus. The essential effects of the economy, including distancing, due to isolation and the market due to a diverse pandemic, including the distancing of services and the market in a diverse diversity, However, the period was atypical, more than 620 thousand micros and small companies. In this sense, the question is: what is the impact of the pandemic on the scenario of micro and companies in Brazil? Therefore, the object of the study is understood as micro and small companies in the context of three perspectives: conceptualization of the business pandemic modality; presentation of the pandemic context; and analyze the behavior of micro and small companies in this period. In the construction of the study, the literature review method was used. The results point to a pandemic that puts pressure on idle cases and they are looking for other activities that, in many cases, are related to the opening of the most varied ventures. However, IBGE data and IBGE data were identified only as taken during the pandemic, including the medicine and medication sectors. On the other hand, the civil construction and commerce sectors had lows.