...Bharti; Sanjeev Gupta; Ashish Kumar Purpose This study aims to examine the evidence and magnitude of the sector-specific herding behaviour in the Indian equity market, focusing on the COVID-19 epoch. Design/methodology/approach This study uses high-frequency daily data of the 11 sector indices...

...Mushtaq Hussain Khan; Navid Feroze; Junaid Ahmed; Mahzar Mughal Purpose Earlier studies used conventional time-series models to forecast the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on stock market performance. This study aims to provide a more flexible model that offers more robust estimation features...

...Gopal Krushna Gouda; Binita Tiwari Purpose The COVID-19 outbreak disrupted the business environment and severely affected the morale and performance of the employees. Further, the Indian automobile industry witnessed major setbacks and drastically impacted sector in COVID-19. Talent agility...

... partners. For modelling asymmetric disruption, the authors took instances from the lock-down and post-lock-down periods of the COVID-19 pandemic, where consumers flow from BM retailer to OR store. Findings By analysing the disruption period, the authors found that this asymmetric disruption...

... the food supply chain and assessing the impact of COVID-19 on food sustainability. Design/methodology/approach A survey method has been adopted with a questionnaire instrument investigating the role of technology, government policies, geopolitics and intermediaries on sustainable organisational...

...Ashish Kumar Singh; Prayas Sharma Purpose Amid the COVID-19 contamination, people are bound to use contactless FinTech payment services. Because of restrictions on physical movement and avoidance of touching physical money, people willingly choose mobile payment, resulting in enormous growth...

...Shrawan Kumar Trivedi; Pradipta Patra; Amrinder Singh; Pijush Deka; Praveen Ranjan Srivastava Purpose The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted 222 countries across the globe, with millions of people losing their lives. The threat from the virus may be assessed from the fact that most countries across...

...Amol Vasant Bhide; Milind M. Akarte Purpose This paper aims to assess the feasibility of a hybrid manufacturing and remanufacturing system (HMRS) for essential commodities in the context of COVID-19. Specifically, it emphasises using HMRS based on costs associated with various manufacturing...

...Amina Toumi; Rim El Khoury; Etienne Harb; Nohade Nasrallah Purpose This study models the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the performance of the private health-care sector in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) countries. This paper aims to address the economic, societal and sustainability...

...Jaber Valizadeh; Peyman Mozafari Purpose Production of waste has been increased exponentially due to world industrialization and urban and machine life expansion. On the other hand, the outbreak of the COVID-19 coronavirus quickly became a global crisis. This crisis has added a large amount...