45

Our article improves understanding of the impact of collective intelligence on entrepreneurial resilience, a factor of which is the integration provided by collaborative management. The current study proposes a model of entrepreneurial resilience in the context of COVID-19, to make an effective contribution to the economic recovery. Data were generated through fifteen interviews and 282 sample surveys conducted with resilient Cameroonian and Chadian entrepreneurs. Our findings show that collective intelligence, identified through its main components, is a posture and a preferred means of action that increases economic and strategic entrepreneurial resilience in uncertain times. This result emerges from the finding that entrepreneurs whose businesses are surviving the pandemic rely on business networks, dynamic capabilities, and demonstrations of solidarity. Entrepreneurs should therefore start to instrumentalize the constituents of collective intelligence to ensure their resilience.