The challenges of COVID-19 control policies for sustainable development of business: Evidence from service industries

Chen, Ji; Huang, Jiayan; Su, Weihua; Štreimikienė, Dalia; Baležentis, Tomas

doi:10.1016/j.techsoc.2021.101643

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“…The COVID-19 pandemic struck during early 2020 and has continued to be a global challenge through 2021. The effects of high infection rates—resulting in stringent restrictions and lockdowns—have led to immediate and enormous challenges for businesses worldwide [ [9] , [10] , [11] ]. The economic effects of the pandemic have been observed across nations and industries, and many firms were forced to abruptly cut every cost not essential for firm survival [ 12 , 13 ].…”

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Analyzing the impact of COVID-19 on environmental innovations in manufacturing firms

Hermundsdottir

Haneberg

Aspelund

2022

Technology in Society

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COVID-19 has had a significant impact on the manufacturing industry, and manufacturers have responded to the crisis in different ways. This study investigates Norwegian manufacturers’ response to the crisis, particularly how it has influenced their adoption of environmental innovations. More specifically, the study investigates whether firms choose “general” or “green” strategic responses to the crisis and how this influences the overall adoption of environmental innovations. In addition, the study investigates how the degree of environmental innovation adoption occurring before COVID-19 affects how the crisis impacted firms. The study adopts a quantitative research approach using survey data from 526 manufacturing firms—a representative sample of manufacturers in Norway. The findings reveal that those manufacturers the most environmentally innovative before COVID-19 were more impacted by the crisis. Moreover, firms adopted both general and green responses to the crisis, and the overall conduction of environmental innovations decreased during the pandemic. The main contribution is the empirical findings related to the overall impact of COVID-19 on sustainability-oriented manufacturing. The implications are discussed for both theory and practice.

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Analyzing the impact of COVID-19 on environmental innovations in manufacturing firms

Hermundsdottir

Haneberg

Aspelund

2022

Technology in Society

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“…Therefore, a logistic regression analysis was performed for ordinal variables, considering the product selection attributes incorporated in the purchase choices factor as independent variables and the purchase and post-purchase actions of clothing, associated with the sufficient and frugal consumption factor, as dependent variables. Logistic regression is typically used to evaluate the influence of a set of variables on the selection probability of a certain alternative, especially for factors that affect a given decision but cannot be directly observed [ 88 ]. Ordinal logistic regression is a regression analysis used to find and describe the relationship between ordinal scale response variables with more than two categories and a set of continuous or categorical predictor variables [ 89 ].…”

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Influence of product selection criteria on clothing purchase and post-purchase behaviours: A gender and generational comparison

Barrera-Verdugo

Villarroel-Villarroel

2022

PLoS ONE

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Purchasing and consumption behaviour is a factor with an important impact on sustainable development. In this regard, the clothing category plays a key role due to the high volume of products that are manufactured in countries with poor environmental and social conditions. While some research has investigated personal, social and cultural conditions that influence these behaviours, little is currently known about the influence of the attributes of sustainable clothing selection on the frequency of sustainable purchase and post-purchase actions in this category. This research seeks to evaluate this effect by comparing the results among genders and age/generation and measuring sustainable consumption using the Young Consumers’ Sustainable Consumption Behaviour method, which has two dimensions: purchase choices and sufficient and frugal consumption. Responses to online surveys of 240 university students in Chile are analysed using descriptive statistics, the Mann-Whitney-Wilcoxon test and ologit regressions. The findings show significant differences between the groups analysed with respect to the influence of attributes for sustainable clothing selection and highlight the negative effect of the search for quality in men and in older people. The evidence highlights the need to inform the population about the characteristics of sustainable clothing that positively affect purchase and post-purchase actions such as buying secondhand clothing, repairing, exchanging and donating clothing. This study also suggests that it is important to strengthen the relationship between sustainability and clothing quality among older generations and men.

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“…Finally, is the logistics effect, which negatively affects the supply chains, labor demand, employment, and caused downsizing. Such large-scale disruptions increase uncertainty and the risk for businesses in terms of their survival and continuity (Chen et al, 2021). Compared to agriculture, manufacturing, and other industries, the service industry has been affected more negatively, especially sub-sections or entities within the industry that are unable to operate remotely.…”

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Empirical Review of Business Challenges and Opportunities From the Covid-19 Pandemic

Younas

Kassim

2022

JBMA

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The SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus which causes the Covid-19 disease led to the most signiﬁcant change in the world order over the past century, destabilizing the world’s economy, businesses and communities, among others. Covid-19 has generated great uncertainty, and dramatically affected various industries, especially the service sector. This paper highlights the challenges and opportunities posed by the Covid-19 pandemic in terms of the role of businesses to ensure sustainability and safeguarding society. Based on empirical reviews, this study suggests that the pandemic has resulted in many business and economic challenges which include unemployment, low consumption of goods and services, financial distress, unethical business practices, mental distress, heavy business losses and business discontinuity. At the same time, the Covid-19 pandemic has created an opportunity for businesses in terms of enhance sustainability environment, enhanced voluntary CSR initiatives, shifting towards digital transformation and viable alternative business models. This study concludes that businesses must actively make use of opportunities to overcome or minimize the challenges of Covid-19.

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The challenges of COVID-19 control policies for sustainable development of business: Evidence from service industries

Cited by 44 publications

References 43 publications

Analyzing the impact of COVID-19 on environmental innovations in manufacturing firms

Analyzing the impact of COVID-19 on environmental innovations in manufacturing firms

Influence of product selection criteria on clothing purchase and post-purchase behaviours: A gender and generational comparison

Empirical Review of Business Challenges and Opportunities From the Covid-19 Pandemic

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