Guest editorial.

Based on first-hand data from 290 small and micro firms in China, [11] illuminate the surge of credit constraints and associated financial risks facing small and micro enterprises amid the COVID-19 pandemic. From a Chinese cultural cognition of crisis management, [9], [10]) offer a holistic depiction of how Chinese firms leverage the development of KM capabilities to make timely strategic emergency responses to the pandemic in different stages of development (i.e. before, during and after the crisis). Introduction Since early 2020, the COVID-19 crisis, classified as a global public health emergency (GPHE), has resulted in a series of devastating impacts, such as the breakdown of industries, massive job losses, natural hazards and social precarity on many national economies, as well as the firms operating and the people dwelling within these nations ([3]). Their results indicate that, apart from calamitous outcomes, the COVID-19 pandemic has also propelled firms to learn new knowledge and thereby achieve miraculous success. [Extracted from the article]