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Competing Interests: Competing interests: MK, OK, and BL declare that they have no competing interests related to this manuscript. Their main goal is to provide impartial and comprehensive information on the topic, without any financial or non-financial conflicts that might impact the interpretation or presentation of the research findings. The authors have no affiliations or financial associations with any organisations or entities that have a direct or indirect interest in the subject matter discussed. Their sole commitment is to deliver accurate and pertinent information for the benefit of the readers and the wider healthcare community.

The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has affected countless businesses, leading to serious disruptions for many industries. Drawing on the resilience literature, this study offers an understanding of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the creative industries and their response to the challenges they have encountered. This study reviews 59 papers following the systematic literature review approach and reveals several positive implications of the COVID-19 pandemic within the creative industries (e.g., IT and software) as well as the negative (the music industry, festivals, cultural events). Identifying six themes related to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the creative industries, we develop a response matrix based on the discussion of firms' digital capabilities and their ability to adapt to the COVID-19 crisis. We outline future research directions using a Theory-Context-Characteristics-Methodology (TCCM) framework., Competing Interests: The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper., (© 2021 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.)