... public construction projects during the COVID-19 pandemic, a novel approach in this context. It provides a unique empirical basis for recommendations bridging the gap between theoretical project management models and practical application in a post-pandemic world, thus offering significant value...

... societal biases related to gender, ethnicity and class. Design/methodology/approach Employing an inductive, phenomenological approach, we conducted face-to-face interviews with migrant women entrepreneurs affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. Supplementing our findings, we analysed documents such as UK...

... crisis. Our study aims to investigate how causation affects their ability to be successful at the onset of widespread calamities. Design/methodology/approach We examined how 191 Brazilian MSEs utilized causation in managing different aspects of their operating cycle before the COVID-19 pandemic using...

... of ownership structure in influencing these effects. Additionally, the study emphasizes the significance of CSR activities for business partners in mitigating supply chain disruptions during the COVID-19 pandemic. Corporate social responsibility (CSR) Business partner Firm value COVID-19 pandemic...

... (Rubin, 2005 ; Utz, 2017). The COVID-19 pandemic period saw a similar interest by researchers to test the ESG performance with a firm’s profitability measures or stock market performance. Some researchers have found no significant impact of ESG on the stock market performance of firms. This finding...

... importance to ESG performance as a signal of future stock performance and/or risk mitigation. This work acquires even more significance when compared to a paper by Diaz et al. (2020) . The researchers discovered that “the COVID-19 pandemic has moved ESG investing strategies into the spotlight...

...Melchior Gromis di Trana; Simona Fiandrino; Dorra Yahiaoui Purpose The aim of this study is twofold. First, the research aims to identify Integrated Thinking (IT) stages of development. Second, the research aims to investigate how IT has reacted to the COVID-19 pandemic by accelerating integrated...

...) before and during the COVID-19 pandemic. Design/methodology/approach This study employed a combinatory methodology to analyze how 124 Brazilian SMEs configured – before and during the pandemic – the size of their working capital and their levels of dependency on clients and suppliers. Findings...