...Qi Zhang; Mengyu Tu; Yangyan Shi; Li Zhu; V.G. Venkatesh; Yang Cheng Purpose This paper aims to discuss the market performance and response trend of China’s listed automobile companies and their major suppliers in response to the COVID-19 epidemic. Design/methodology/approach The paper...

...Anton Klarin; Pradeep Kanta Ray; Sangeeta Ray; Qijie Xiao Purpose Global value chains (GVCs) are facing unprecedented pressures arising from structural changes in the global economy and exogenous shocks including military conflicts and the aftermath of COVID-19. Considering the importance of value...

...Adnan Khan; Rohit Sindhwani; Mohd Atif; Ashish Varma Purpose This study aims to test the market anomaly of herding behavior driven by the response to supply chain disruptions in extreme market conditions such as those observed during COVID-19. The authors empirically test the response...

... Disease 2019 (COVID-19) has brought considerable challenges and significant impact across the globe. One of the severely affected sectors is the tourism industry, as the pandemic led to a sudden halt in travel worldwide. Travel restrictions, especially between countries, continue to persist. Compared...

... This study’s findings indicate that a health-based crisis like COVID-19 triggers housing developers to act outside their comfort zones. They undertake arbitrage and collaborative brokerage strategies to cope with business uncertainties. This study revealed the contextual embedding of the owner-occupier market...

...Lala Hu; Mirko Olivieri; Riccardo Rialti Purpose This paper aims to investigate small and medium enterprises’ (SMEs) adoption of social media platforms and how they integrated them within their marketing strategies during the COVID-19 outbreaks. Dynamic capabilities – observed as the interplay...

... that influence visitors’ participation at business-to-business trade shows and how their satisfaction and perception can be related to exhibition performance. The authors also take into consideration technological trends that prior to COVID-19 pandemics were slowly emerging in the trade show industry...

... companies with new managerial approaches and tools to face the challenges and, hopefully, transform the threats into opportunities. COVID-19 has dramatically changed how people live, socialise and think about their future. The disruptive shock that hit societies all over the world had a significantly...

...Zeynep Özgüner; Mert Özgüner; Yakup Durmaz Purpose The purpose of this study is to evaluate the effects of COVID-19 on the Turkish manufacturing sector by using analytical hierarchy process (AHP) and Technique for Order Preference by Similarity to Ideal Solution (TOPSIS) methods on a sectoral...

...Lala Hu; Mirko Olivieri Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate how business-to-business (B2B) companies operating in durable goods use digital communications after the COVID-19 outbreak. In particular, this paper focuses on the objectives of these digital communication tools...

...Tiziana Russo-Spena; Cristina Mele; Valtteri Kaartemo; Francesco Caputo; Marialuisa Marzullo To answer the question, we used Reddit data, particularly the subreddit r/coronavirus, to identify posts discussing COVID-19’s impact on businesses addressing this systemic crisis. At the time of data...

... 04 2022 14 07 2022 18 07 2022 © Emerald Publishing Limited 2022 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Negotiating Scenario analysis Future scenarios COVID-19 Business negotiation Buyer–seller negotiations Companies find themselves embedded...

... to the literature on resilience, providing a multilevel conceptualization. This is a timely contribution, as resilience has emerged as a central concept addressing interorganizational survival during the COVID-19 pandemic. This paper makes three main contributions to business marketing. First, this paper...

... aims to explore the impact of marketing agility on the business-to-business (B2B) firms’ capacity to address unexpected events such as the recent coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, examining how they reshape their strategies during the different stages of a crisis. This study follows a theory...

... protective equipment (PPE) industry managed supply chain and business relationships disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic, and the adoption of digital and social media during the period of crisis management. The methodology used is qualitative based on 14 interviews with 11 PPE firms operating in Italy...

... Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only As a global pandemic, the COVID-19 crisis has profoundly affected the development of local firms, threatening the survival of small and medium enterprises (SMEs). This study aims to present an integrated framework by investigating the impact...

... brought about by the ongoing US–China trade war and COVID-19 pandemic. The proposed conceptual framework is tested using survey data collected from 702 Taiwanese firms with manufacturing in China. The firms were drawn from a database compiled by Taiwan’s Ministry of Economic Affairs...

...Deva Rangarajan; Vishag Badrinarayanan; Aditi Sharma; Rakesh Kumar Singh; Sridhar Guda Purpose The main purpose of this research is to understand how the sudden shift to work from home (WFH) after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic has caught several sales organizations underprepared and ill...

...Roberta Sebastiani; Alessia Anzivino Alessia Anzivino can be contacted at: alessia.anzivino@unicatt.it 19 02 2021 06 06 2021 12 08 2021 This paper proposes a conceptual framework that explains the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the development of the Italian...

...Atif Saleem Butt Purpose The purpose of this study is to understand how manufacturers (both discrete and process) are managing disruptions amid the COVID-19 pandemic outbreak, using UAE as an empirical context. Design/methodology/approach This research uses a multiple case study approach...