Firms are increasingly expected to engage in corporate social responsibility (CSR) in reaction to external crises. Yet, we still know little about how they do it. This study discusses what we can learn from how large global firms responded to the COVID‐19 pandemic. Employ...
Third, we find that the government responses to the COVID-19 pandemic by way of stringency of the lockdowns had a significant impact on debt financing by firms. For instance, a one unit increase in the lockdown stringency has led to a 5.9 percentage point increase in the propensity for ...
This paper investigates whether the adoption of E-learning by firms contributed to offset the decrease in firm-sponsored training during the COVID-19 pandemic. Using a novel firm level survey linked with administrative data on the universe of workers within those firms, I study the role of E-...
The COVID-19 pandemic has affected supply and demand to a large extent. Declining demand for firms' output has caused significant financial stress for all kinds of firms worldwide. Production that requires environmental measures usually gets constrained when firms, especially small and medium-sized ...
Covid-19, therefore, is an opportunity to provide evidence of the pandemic's impact on financial reporting fraud in relation to business characteristics. Research purpose: This research examines the impact of the pandemic on businesses' financial performance such as revenue growth, operating cash ...
As organizations and their people confront the COVID-19 pandemic, one thing is becoming increasingly apparent: the impact of the outbreak will linger. To manage and mitigate the impact on their workforces, businesses must take immediate action; start planning now for what comes next; and sta...
How the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted day to day operations of their enterprises, The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the processes used to operate their businesses, The impact of COVID-19 on personnel and staffing levels in their businesses, ...
The link between the financial success of family companies during COVID-19 and their environmental, social, and governance (ESG) performance is examined for the first time in this research. We have a natural setting in the COVID-19 era to see if the market rewards family-run firms that int...
Concerning correlation-based network analysis, three analyses are conducted to validate the impact of COVID-19 on Japanese listed firms. First, we examined the interconnection among returns on two TOPIX Sector Indices. This analysis implies that WHO's global pandemic declaration and the state of eme...
COVID-19 Cash flexibility PSM-DID 1. Introduction In January 2020, the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) broke out in China and rapidly spread across the country and the world. To contain the pandemic, Chinese government authorities at all levels adopted measures to curtail the spread, such as ho...