Crisis-driven decision-making in traditional European SMEs: blockchain and adaptive governance in the Tuscan nautical sector

This study investigates how decision-making logics develop within the institutional governance structures that influence crisis responses in traditional European small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) ecosystems and under which conditions digital tools—specifically blockchain—emerge as context-dependent governance solutions. It focuses on the Tuscan artisanal nautical ecosystem, a low-digital maturity, institutionally dense environment.