Ordeal or opportunity: IDPS journey through COVID-19 pandemic

Abstract

Learning outcomes This case enables students to understand the nature of a typical crisis and manage a crisis drawing insights from the protagonist handling of the crisis and from the various crisis management models in the literature. The rich description of the impact of COVID-19 pandemic on the world in this case enables students to understand the nature of a typical external crisis. The critical appraisal of the protagonist’s plans and actions to overcome the crisis enables students to appreciate the various crisis management frameworks or models. In addition, students get perspectives about the leadership skills and competencies required during a crisis. In this way, students will not only learn about the theoretical concepts related to the crisis but also the practical know-how to effectively handle the crisis. Case overview/synopsis This case study describes the functioning of the International Delhi Public School (IDPS) Akhnoor, Jammu, and Kashmir, India, through the COVID-19 global crisis. The IDPS academic operations were disrupted because of the COVID-19 global crisis in March 2020. The protagonist, KCS Mehta, the school principal of IDPS, faced with the crisis, takes various steps to ensure the smooth transition of school’s academic operations from the physical mode to the online mode. This case explains the nature of an external crisis that completely crippled the organization’s day-to-day operations and how the organization’s leader tried to manage the crisis to revitalize the organization’s operations. The case can be used for teaching of alternate Models of Crisis Management and Change Management. Complexity academic level The case is developed to teach the courses of Executive training programs and MBA programs in business schools. Supplementary materials Teaching notes are available for educators only. Subject code CSS 11: Strategy.

Application of fuzzy methods in green and sustainable supply chains: critical insights from a systematic review and bibliometric analysis

“…The decreasing graph line from 2022 has been observed that can be attributed to several reasons as follows: (1) the number of citations of research articles that have been published in very recent years may not be correctly represented in just a couple of years. In most cases, a more realistic picture of the total number of citations may become visible after a few years have passed since the publication; (2) coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) crisis has severely affected educational institutions, industries and other sectors from all over the world (Dimple et al ., 2022). However, an increasing trend line of average per year citations depicts the growing momentum of the research studies in the domain of GSCM and SSCM under a fuzzy environment.…”