Calm after the storm? The role of social and environmental practices on small and medium enterprises resilience throughout COVID-19 crisis Ferrón Vílchez, Vera Leyva de la Hiz, Dante Ignacio COVID-19 Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Heckman model Organizational resilience Pandemic SMEs Social and environmental practices The peer review history for this article is available at https://publo ns.com/publo n/10.1111/beer.12528. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS This work has been supported by the research projects CV20-20664 and A-SEJ- 192- UGR20, both granted by Council of Economy, Knowledge, Business and University of the Junta de Andalucía (regional government, Spain) and European Regional Development Fund (ERDF). The authors also acknowledge the partial support provided by the projects P20-00019, P20-00568, and B-SEJ_ 398_UGR20 granted by Council of Economic Transformation, Industry, Knowledge and Universities of the Junta de Andalucía, the project PID2020-223338RBI00 granted by the Spanish Ministry of Economy, Industry and Competitiveness, and the project LMP-175- 21 granted by the Government of the Autonomous Community of Aragón. Funding for open access charge: Universidad de Granada / CBUA. This study aims to analyze whether resilient SMEs have been able to overcome the bump of the COVID-19 crisis in terms of profitability. When facing such unforeseen crises, SMEs require resilience, and one of the factors that positively affect resilience generation is the adoption of social and environmental practices (SEPs). Using survey data on the managerial perceptions of 259 SMEs, this study reveals the positive association between resilience and improvements in business performance, and how the adoption of SEPs is an essential prerequisite for developing a higher level of resilience. We corroborate these associations for SMEs at two moments of the pandemic: November 2020 and October 2021. Our findings show that more resilient SMEs exhibit better results in terms of business performance, and the prior adoption of SEPs is positively associated with the development of resilience in the crisis context of COVID-19. 2023-04-13T08:07:17Z 2023-04-13T08:07:17Z 2023-03-01 journal article Ferrón-Vílchez, V., & Leyva-de la Hiz, D. I. (2023). Calm after the storm? The role of social and environmental practices on small and medium enterprises resilience throughout COVID-19 crisis. Business Ethics, the Environment & Responsibility, 00, 1–17. [https://doi. org/10.1111/beer.12528] https://hdl.handle.net/10481/81032 10.1111/beer.12528 eng http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ open access Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internacional Wiley