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. 2020 Nov 26;132:586–593. doi: 10.1016/j.jbusres.2020.11.043

Table 2.

Database: Selected Articles.

Adhikary Adhikary Adhikary Adhikary
Bacq et al. (2020) Provide evidence from participants and mentors showcasing the value of the time-compressed virtual idea blitz in accelerating social entrepreneurial action. COVID-19
Entrepreneurial hustle
Grand challenges
Social entrepreneurship
Virtual idea blitz
The results of the event suggest the concept is transferable to a number of different contexts. Universities can play a valuable role in linking professionals, students, and researchers in shared endeavours that can achieve substantial societal benefits.
Carnevale and Hatak (2020) Discuss the implications of COVID-19 for human resource management. Human resource management
Employee adjustment
Well-being
Crisis
COVID-19
There is little reason to believe its impact on organizational life will be short-lived. Some implications of COVID-19 for employee adjustment and well-being are highlighted.
Donthu and Gustafsson (2020)1 Introduce special issue about the effects of COVID-19 on business and research People have become more conservative and protective after the pandemic outbreak. Countries are stockpiling things like food, equipment and medicine, or are preparing to produce them locally.
Eggers (2020) Conduct a literature study on 69 manuscripts that studied SMEs in previous crises and propose ways to overcome economic downturns in the areas of finance, strategy and the institutional environment Small firms
SMEs
Crisis
Strategy
COVID-19
Small firms face a liability of smallness, while crises create additional resource availability and liquidity problems. An SME’s potential for more flexible decision-making and closeness to its customer base is beneficial in this regard.
He and Harris (2020) Examine how the COVID-19 pandemic can influence the development of CSR, consumer ethics and marketing philosophy. COVID-19
Corporate social responsibility
Marketing
Consumer ethical decision making
Marketing philosophy
Business ethics
Whatever the changes, i seems highly likely that the ways marketing has operated in the past will need to change and will do to meet the new reality.
Kirk and Rifkin (2020) Document some of the many unusual consumer behaviour patterns that came to dominate the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic Coronavirus
COVID-19
Pandemic
Hoarding
Social distancing
Do-it-yourself
Digital technology
Consumer behaviour
Three phases of consumer behaviour is addressed: reacting, coping and longer-term adapting.
Krishnamurthy (2020) Provide a framework to understand business schools’ worldwide transformation by recognizing the changes in the university, the business world and the student. COVID-19
Business school
Digital transformation
AI-led innovation
The university system has been forced into an unprecedented reshape. Business schools will rise to the occasion and will adopt a leadership role within the university
Leung et al. (2020) Research the impact of gender equity on public health outcomes using the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic as its research setting COVID-19
Gender equity
Human development
Human environment
Public health expenditure
Public health outcomes
The importance of women’s role in managing public health outcomes, with strong positive effects of gender equity and the proportion of women in legislature on public health expenditure, which in turn has a significant impact on the number of diagnosed and critical cases.
Pantano et al. (2020) Summarize the challenges that retailers are facing during the COVID-19 emergency, from the perspective of both consumers and managers. Retailing
Consumer behaviour
COVID-19
Emergency
Retail strategy
Pandemic
Retailers should focus on the following main areas: rethinking agile retailing, a new role for retailers in society, putting consumers at the core, digital communication
Mullins (2020) Analyse four tools to help any business owner: (1) Sources and uses of cash analysis, (2) Line-by-line margin analysis of the income statement, (3) Cash-days analysis of the balance sheet, (4) Hidden-cash analysis. Cash-flow tools
Managing cash
Recession
Cash-days analysis
Recessions can be an opportune time to pick up new customers as well as new employees. If cash flow is well managed and pockets are full, businesses will be well positioned to do these things and to weather the current economic storm.
Sharma et al. (2020a) Conduct an extensive review of the international business literature to understand the types of uncertainty in businesses and develop strategies to deal with it. COVID-19
Globalization
International business
Risk
Trade
Uncertainty
This crisis has shown the importance of informational uncertainty and the growing role and influence of direct communication and social media, with inconsistent news and communication from different sources causing confusion and panic
Sharma et al. (2020b) Offer strategic insights in terms of major issues firms are facing and strategic options firms are contemplating, using text analytics tools. COVID-19
Supply chain
Strategic insights
Twitter
Firms are facing challenges in terms of demand–supply mismatch, technology, and development of a resilient supply chain.
Sheth (2020) Examine the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on consumer behaviour. COVID Pandemic
Consumer habits
New regulations for shopping
Customer experience
Digital technology which facilitates work, study and consumption will modify existing habits.
Sigala (2020) Critically review past and emerging literature to help professionals and researchers alike to better understand, manage and valuate both the tourism impacts and transformational affordance of COVID-19. Tourism
COVID-19
Impacts
Recovery
Resilience
Crisis
COVID-19 it can be seen as a transformational opportunity for reforming mindsets in designing and conducting research and for tourism institutions to reset their standards and metrics for motivating and evaluating the purpose, role and impact of tourism research.
Wang et al. (2020) Develop a typology of the marketing innovation strategies of firms under crisis management in two dimensions: motivation for innovations and the level of collaborative innovations COVID-19 crisis
Firms in China
Typology
Marketing innovation strategies
Dynamic capabilities
Resource dependence
When a firm is exposed to a greater degree of external impacts, it is reasonable to choose the responsive strategy that requires the firm to have stronger reconfiguration capabilities and independently optimize existing business
Woodside (2020) Apply the “ultimate broadening of the concept of marketing” for designing and implementing interventions in public laws and policy, national and local regulations, and everyday lives of individuals
COVID-19
Intervention
Experiment
Marketing
Ultimate broadening
Coordinated, major, national government actions are necessary to mitigate and eliminate pandemics, civil rights violations, guns, corruption, extreme income inequality, misogyny, and national disasters.

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