... 2025 © 2025 Emerald Publishing Limited 2025 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Information management COVID-19 Administrative burden Digital contact tracing Information cost At the start of 2020, as the world grappled with the novel coronavirus (COVID-19...

...Mohammad Ashraful Ferdous Chowdhury; Mohammad Abdullah; Mousa Albashrawi Purpose This study aims to investigate public sentiment toward economic stimulus using textual analysis. Specifically, it analyzes Twitter’s public opinion, emotion-based sentiment and topics related to COVID-19 economic...

...Saida Dammak; Sonia Mbarek; Mouna Moalla Purpose This study aims to explore the role of mobile tracing applications as part of e-government services in combating the COVID-19 pandemic effects in Africa by analyzing the moderating role of sustainable development. This study also investigated...

...Yoong Hon Lee; Sheau Yen Ruth Lim Purpose The effects of the COVID-19 pandemic have been devastating to countries around the world. Much of the problem has been the need to contain the infection via harsh social movement restrictions while having the necessary policies to cushion the ensuing...

...Francesco Polese; Antonio Botti; Antonella Monda Purpose Covid-19 pandemic impacted the tourism industry worldwide. Especially in catering, where restaurateurs have had to reinvent their business models, information and communication technologies (ICTs) play a fundamental role in supporting...

... government data during the extraordinary time initiated by the COVID-19 pandemic drawing relevant policy and managerial implications regarding the future development of open data as a mechanism of accountability at times of exception. Design/methodology/approach The study follows exploratory research...

...Amarendu Nandy; Chhavi Tiwari; Sayantan Kundu Purpose The COVID-19 pandemic educed extraordinary policy responses globally, including in India, to flatten the infection-growth curve. The trajectories of infections, recovery, and deaths vastly differed across Indian states. The purpose...

...David Mandiyanike; Onthatile Olerile Moeti Purpose COVID-19 is one of the greatest public health challenges in the 21st century. The World Health Organisation recommended physical distancing to halt the upward trajectory of the infections. Countries including Botswana imposed lockdown for non...

...Baurzhan Bokayev; Zulfiya Torebekova; Marta Abdykalikova; Zhuldyz Davletbayeva Purpose The purpose of this study is analysing the experince of Kazakhstan in implementing distance/online learning during pandemic. The COVID-19 pandemic has affected all areas of social and economic life, including...

...Anna Urbanovics; Péter Sasvári; Bálint Teleki Purpose The purpose of this paper is to analyse the legal and political background of COVID-19 related measures introduced during the first wave of the pandemic in the Visegrad Group. These countries introduced measures within the state of emergency...

...Andrew Franklin Johnson; Katherine J. Roberto; Beth M. Rauhaus Purpose This paper aims to consider decisions by administrators about how to open US campuses for the 2020–2021 academic year during the COVID-19 pandemic. Proposed course delivery method is considered in relation to the political...

...Juan Dempere Purpose This research aims to study some national government success factors at controlling the first wave of COVID-19. The author placed special attention on democracy-related factors. Design/methodology/approach A sample of 156 countries were studied during the first half...

...Wim Naudé; Martin Cameron Purpose This paper aims to provide a country case study of South Africa’s response during the first six months following its first COVID-19 case. The focus is on the government’s (mis-)management of its non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) (or “lockdown”) to stem...

...Lucy J. Parry; Hans Asenbaum; Selen A. Ercan Purpose The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate how a systemic view of democracy can provide insights into the myriad ways in which the COVID-19 pandemic affects democracies worldwide. This enables the authors to offer practical suggestions...

...Jillian Alderman; Maretno Harjoto Purpose This study aims to examine the relationship between the duration (in days) of states’ shelter-in-place orders; state demographic characteristics; and the rates of spread (cases), death (mortality), and recovery of COVID-19 in the USA. Design/methodology...

... and an institution presenting regulatory actions to tackle coronavirus (COVID-19) in reference to day-watchman type regulation. Findings Tackling the COVID-19 pandemic should be a knowledge-based approach (taking as much as possible from best available practices with respect to the novel coronavirus...

...Henry Ngenyam Bang; Marcellus Forh Mbah; Humphrey Ngala Ndi; Judwin Alieh Ndzo Purpose This paper aims to examine Cameroon’s health service resilience in the first five months (March–July 2020) of the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak. The motive is to diagnose sub-optimal performance in sustaining...