... COVID-19 Push–pull–mooring Supply chain reorganization Resilience The “China-plus-one” strategy has been a significant topic in global business and supply chain management, particularly since the outbreaks of the COVID-19 pandemic. China-plus-one refers to a sourcing strategy adopted...

...Pamphile Mezui-Mbeng; Eugene Kouassi; Afees Salisu; Loukou Landry Eric Yobouet Purpose The paper aims at analyzing the co-movements between stock returns and oil prices (West Texas Intermediate, Brent) controlling or not for COVID-19. Design/methodology/approach It uses continuous wavelet...

...Omar Arabiat; Sally Abu-Asabeh; Hashem Alshurafat Purpose This study examines the function of total reserves in light of the relationship between the economic freedom index and the corruption perception index during the COVID-19 period over countries. Design/methodology/approach This analysis...

...Suzan Dsouza; Narinder Pal Singh; Johnson Ayobami Oliyide Purpose This study analyses the impact of the Covid-19 on stock market performance of BRICS nations together. BRICS countries comprise almost 30% of the global GDP and around 50% of the world’s economic growth. As BRICS nations have gained...

...Robert Owusu Boakye; Lord Mensah; Sanghoon Kang; Kofi Osei Purpose The study measures the total systemic risks and connectedness across commodities, stocks, exchange rates and bond markets in Africa during the Covid-19 pandemic. Design/methodology/approach The study uses the Diebold-Yilmaz...

... investigates the disparities in the market performance of listed firms in Romania. This study also examines whether the COVID-19 crisis affected market performance. Design/methodology/approach The data were collected from 69 firms listed on the Bucharest Stock Exchange (BSE) from 2018 to 2022, belonging...

...Md Jahidur Rahman; Hongtao Zhu; Sun Beiyi Purpose This study explores the influence of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) career experience on the investment behavior and risk tolerance of chief executive officers (CEOs). Specifically, this study focuses on CEOs' abilities to allocate...

...Salman Mahmood; Shuhui Wen; Shoaib Aslam; Muhammad Rizwan Khan; Fahad Ur Rehman Purpose This research aimed to find out both direct and mediating relationships between the fear of COVID-19 (FC) and the usage of digital financial services (UDFS) via mediator financial anxiety (FA). It also...

...Thi-Hong-Diep Pham; Quoc Hoi Le; Huong Ho Purpose This paper examines the impact of leadership behaviors on startup's entrepreneurship in Vietnamese southern areas in the time of Covid-19. Design/methodology/approach The paper uses OLS regression model to evaluate the impact of leadership...

...Lydia Qianqian Li; Quynh Ngoc Bui; Hui Yan Purpose Using data from Vietnam to reveal which factors affected the impressive growth of Vietnam's e-commerce during the COVID-19 pandemic. Design/methodology/approach Drawing on the Stimulus–Organism–Response (S-O-R) framework, the study proposed...

...Muhammad Ishfaq Ahmad; Martin Cepel; Enrico Battisti; Ramiz Ur Rehman Purpose This study aims to investigate the perspective of corporate philanthropy during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in China for firms with various levels of corporate social responsibility (CSR). Specifically...

...Gour Gobinda Goswami; Md. Rubaiyath Sarwar; Md. Mahbubur Rahman Purpose The main objective of this paper is to examine the impact of COVID-19 on the tourism flows of eight Asia-Pacific Countries: Australia, Hong Kong, Malaysia, New Zealand, the Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan and Thailand...

... wavelet coherence approach to examine the time-varying lead-lag relationship between conventional and Islamic cryptocurrencies. Furthermore, the authors use BEKK-GARCH model to estimate the optimal weights, hedge ratio and hedging effectiveness in pre-COVID-19 and during the COVID-19 period. Findings...

...: conventional and Islamic by comparing pre and during COVID-19 pandemic. Design/methodology/approach Firstly, the authors examined the characteristics of the indexes. Secondly, the authors estimated the parameters of the stable distribution. Then, the long memory is detected via the estimation of the Hurst...

... technology, materials, telecommunication and utilities) before and during COVID-19 outbreak. This study is based on the rationale that stock sectors exhibit heterogeneity in their response to oil prices depending on whether they are classified as oil-intensive or non-oil-intensive sectors and the possible...

...Maria Babar; Habib Ahmad; Imran Yousaf Purpose This study investigate the return and volatility spillover among agricultural commodities and emerging stock markets during various crises, including the COVID-19 pandemic and the Russian-Ukrainian war. Design/methodology/approach This return...

... between developed and developing economies amid coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. Design/methodology/approach The study proposes a conceptual model formed on seminal theories and literature using the cross-sectional design. For data collection, a purposive sampling method is used where 154...

...Humaira Nafisa Ahmed; Sayem Ahmed; Muztoba Ahmad Khan; Syed Mithun Ali Purpose COVID-19 pandemic interrupted global supply chains (SCs) affecting both developed and developing countries. In context of the COVID-19 pandemic, numerous studies were conducted on sustainable supply chain (SSC...

...Constanza Bianchi Purpose This study aims to examine the impact of COVID-19 on tourism and hospitality small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in an emerging country located in Latin America and identifies service innovation strategies adopted by these firms to survive a prolonged crisis...

.... Originality/value The study is novel in the context of an emerging economy to educate marketers on the product categorization of search goods and experience goods based on financial risk. COVID-19 Decision-making Electronic word-of-mouth adoption (e-WOMA) Online social ties Information processing...