2020
DOI: 10.1002/tie.22188
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A reflection on explanatory factors for COVID‐19: A comparative study between countries

Abstract: The COVID‐19 pandemic is the biggest problem facing the world nowadays. Each country in the world has its own characteristics, which means that its governments, at different rhythms, adopt identical measures to combat this new virus. This article aims to perform a comparative study between countries with a population similar to the Portuguese in number of inhabitants and to find out which factors may explain the numbers registered with the COVID‐19 pandemic. The results show that the countries that carried out… Show more

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“…The 2002–2004 severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) and 2009 AVIAN bird flu were largely concentrated in Asia and did not spread much to other parts of the world (Santos et al , 2021). The Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) also called camel flu started in 2012 but has largely been confined to the Middle East (Santos et al , 2021).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The 2002–2004 severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) and 2009 AVIAN bird flu were largely concentrated in Asia and did not spread much to other parts of the world (Santos et al , 2021). The Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) also called camel flu started in 2012 but has largely been confined to the Middle East (Santos et al , 2021).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Appendix 2 indicates that three organizational competencies, which are leadership & decision making, resilience, and sustainability, and one organizational incompetency, which is vulnerability, take the attention. Due to the reason that crises require rapid and optimal decisions and strong leadership, it is logical for scholars to focus on leadership, decision making, and factors influential on decisions during COVID-19 (Gouglas, et al, 2019;Hughes, et al, 2020;Ocampo and Yamagishi, 2020;Zhang, et al, 2020;Sarkar and Clegg, 2021;Santos, et al, 2021;Yigitcanlar, et al, 2021;Farhan, 2021;Oruh, et al, 2021;Stoker, et al, 2021;Oliveira and Cunha, 2021;Petridou and Zahariadis, 2021;Hartwell and Devinney, 2021). Also, as discussed in the part related to supply chain management, resilience can be considered a critical organizational competency as well.…”
Section: Competenciesmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…However, it may also mean “challenge,” and it is in this sense that risk can be understood more like a choice, rather than a fatality or destiny. For Santos et al (2020), the literature about management in times of a crisis is general and lacks a specific perspective on international businesses. Nowadays, the literature on international businesses and their risks assumes that all crises are the same.…”
Section: Literature Reviewmentioning
confidence: 99%