COVID-19Spanish FluBusiness organizationsIndustriesEconomyCorona virusThe pestiferous corona virus has carried unforeseen wavering into the business organizations globally. With this virus, the world is facing a health pandemic aSocial Science Electronic Publishing...
We document and evaluate how businesses are reacting to the COVID-19 crisis through August 2020. First, on net, firms see the shock (thus far) largely as a demand rather than supply shock. A greater share of firms report significant or severe disruptions to sales activity than to supply ch...
come home Thursday night. And that was the arrangement. I was blissfully ignorant of all of it. Now, I got divorced and then COVID meant that I could actually have my daughter fully half-time.
The businesses who can, and many do, emerge out of a crisis situation are those who plan for their worst-case scenarios, who simulate response strategies for all possible cases, ask difficult questions, identify key people to lead the firefight, and establish critical processes and financial solu...
While the business impact of COVID-19 has varied depending on industry, there's one group that has been hit particularly hard in America: women-owned small businesses. According to arecent surveyby the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the number of female business owners who ranked their business'...
small businessTo explore the impact of COVID on small businesses, we conducted a survey of more than 5,800 small businesses between March 28 and April 4, 2020. Several themesdoi:10.2139/ssrn.3570896Bartik, AlexanderBertrand, MarianneCullen, ZoeGlaeser, Edward L....
COVID-19 has transformed the ecommerce landscape as we know it, from the shut down of brick-and-mortars to businesses offering curbside pickup in response. In light of these events,ShipStation conducted a study to track the progression of COVID-19 and its impacts on ecommerce in the United...
This study was aimed (1) to analyze the productivity, cost, and income of potato farming; (2) to analyze the risk of potato farming; and (3) to analyze the potato trade system at the level before and during COVID-19 pandemic. This study used a descriptive-quantitative research type. It...
The global health emergency declared in January 2020 by the World Health Organization (WHO) following the spread of Covid-19 has had a significant impact on the daily lives of people and businesses (e.g.,World Bank, 2020). Governments around the world have reacted by imposing partly voluntar...
How to navigate the lasting impacts of COVID-19 on customer support: As COVID-19 disrupts business as usual, we’re seeing monumental changes take place in a mere matter of months. Are these changes merely a response to the pressures created by a global crisis, or a sea change for custo...