Research data for the paper: Crisis as catalyst: How SMEs forge higher-order dynamic capabilities

Primary data (interview transcriptions and framework questions for these semi-structured interviews) related to the paper entitled “Crisis as catalyst: How SMEs forge higher-order dynamic capabilities”.Data were collected from November 2022 to March 2023. The general questions included in the protocol constituted the framework for the conversations and were supplemented with detailed questions on an ongoing basis. As we were prohibited by confidentiality agreements from disclosing information about the firms, interviews have been anonymized. All materials are in Polish.The research was funded by National Science Centre, Poland, PRELUDIUM grant number 2021/41/N/HS4/02161.