The changing role of innovation for crisis management in times of COVID-19: An integrative literature review

Sharma, Gagan Deep; Kraus, Sascha; Srivastava, Mrinalini; Chopra, Ritika; Kallmuenzer, Andreas

doi:10.1016/j.jik.2022.100281

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“…Pressuring governments all around the globe to find an efficient way to reduce air pollution and prevent climate change. The COVID-19 outbreak has highlighted the need to strengthen communities and ramp up the fight against climate change to reach a more egalitarian and sustainable future (Chopra et al 2022;Sharma et al 2022). While several countries have set targets for carbon neutrality, they are using a variety of environmental policy tools to get there, including regulatory instruments ("command-and-control," market-based mechanisms, contractual arrangements, subsidies, environmental management systems, and informational campaigns) (Weber et al 2022;Yong and Chang 2022).…”

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Can environmental taxes and green-energy offer carbon-free E7 economies? An empirical analysis in the framework of COP-26

Sarpong

Gyamfi

et al. 2023

Environ Sci Pollut Res

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The main cause of environmental degradation is carbon emissions, which puts environmental sustainability in jeopardy. This ecological worry, the obligation for which falls on all economic actors, has not gone undetected, and so in 2021, the Glasgow Climate Pact (COP: 26) was organized, with the primary aim of decreasing global carbon emissions. Because the Post-Glasgow Agreement goals represent a significant challenge to achieving ecological responsibility, pressure is applied to the participating nations. However, earlier literature lacked sufficient investigation of factors useful for the mitigation of carbon emissions in E7 (China, Turkey, India, Russia, Brazil, Indonesia, and Mexico) economies. Hence, we aim to fill this research vacuum by predicting the impact of clean fuels and cooking technology availability, renewable energy, and environmental taxes on E7 economies’ carbon emissions from 2000 to 2020, while taking urbanization and population expansion into account. Evaluation is done using four different cross-sectional dependence (CSD) methods, as well as unit root tests (CIPS and CADF), cointegration analysis (Westerlund and Kao), and the Driscoll-Kraay and quantile-on-quantile long-run factor estimate methods. The long-run analysis revealed from our findings that environmental tax, renewable energy, and access to clean fuels and technologies for cooking decrease carbon emission for the E7 economies. On the other hand, urbanization and population growth enhance emissions for the E7 economies. Finally, our results hold up under a variety of policy interpretations that would aid in reducing carbon emissions and their negative effects on the environment.

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Can environmental taxes and green-energy offer carbon-free E7 economies? An empirical analysis in the framework of COP-26

Sarpong

Gyamfi

et al. 2023

Environ Sci Pollut Res

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“…, 2021); and (5) challenges and recovering from the pandemic (Sharma et al. , 2022a, b). The current study also contributes to the literature on DCs and entrepreneurial resilience by linking these two theoretical domains in the context of the impact of the somewhat stricter lockdown policies in the study economy, which also had its international borders sealed as part of an eventually abandoned elimination strategy.…”

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“…, 2022), a post-crisis recovery framework in light of the pandemic's impact on entrepreneurs (Sharma et al. , 2022a, b), key strategies employed by family firms to adapt to the pandemic (Kraus et al. , 2020), and the strategic role of information and communication technology (ICT) adoption (Wendt et al.…”

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“Stay home, save SMEs”? The impact of a unique strict COVID-19 lockdown on small businesses

Mukherjee,

Scott,

Deakins

et al. 2023

IJEBR

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PurposeIn exploring how small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) overcame COVID-19 restrictions by deploying their specific dynamic capabilities to pivot their business models, this article explains the novel approaches that SMEs take and how they have responded to the financial challenges that arose from the pandemic.Design/methodology/approachThe article adopts a dynamic capabilities lens to explain: (1) the specific financial effects of the relatively “short” (seven week) COVID-19 lockdown during March and April 2020 on SMEs; (2) the barriers they faced; and (3) how they overcame these barriers. The data were collected via semi-structured interviews with the owner-manager or a senior manager in each surveyed SME. The interview data were analysed using NVivo.FindingsAnalysis of the findings revealed five key factors: (1) the capability of SMEs to access external resources, especially entrepreneurial finance; (2) their ability to reconfigure resources and plan for the longer term, yet retain flexibility; (3) how entrepreneurial learning provided the capability to deal with the “unplanned” events/uncertainty; (4) the importance of networking and sources of information; and (5) the remarkable optimism for a future recovery, despite the difficulties of the trading period.Originality/valueThis research fills a unique niche, as no previous studies have examined the resilience and dynamic capabilities of SMEs during a complete lockdown and business shutdown of this magnitude. This context, unprecedented in the history of modern economies, offers a new lens through which to understand the mechanisms of business survival and adaptation in times of severe disruptions. No previous studies have been conducted in unique circumstances during a time when SMEs were faced with such a strict lockdown with travel and business completely shut down.

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“…Innovation is crucial for the survival and wellbeing of organizations in volatile, rapidly changing societies (see Bagheri et al, 2019;Mumtaz and Parahoo, 2020;Sharma et al, 2022). Innovation is also a human trait, built into and during the process of evolution (Reader et al, 2016).…”

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“…In this study, we approach innovation as a multilevel phenomenon (see also Mumtaz and Parahoo, 2020;Sharma et al, 2022). Employees' innovativeness is a complex process in which innovativeness can be seen to occur as a result of several interconnected factors (Parzefall et al, 2008).…”

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Compassion—A key to innovation: What promotes and what prevents innovation in organizations?

Spännäri

Juntunen²,

Pessi³

et al. 2023

Front. Psychol.

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Innovation is crucial for the survival and wellbeing of organizations in volatile, rapidly changing societies. However, the role of profound human capability, compassion, and innovation has not been adequately investigated. This article sets out to explore the factors preventing and promoting innovation in organizations, asking how compassion is connected to these factors, and how compassion could boost innovation. We approach innovation as a complicated multilevel phenomenon, emerging from interactions between individuals and the work context. Our view of compassion includes both compassion and copassion—responding both to the suffering and joy of others. Our material was collected from nine focus group interviews, organized in Finland in 2017, in private, public, and third-sector organizations. The material was analyzed by two researchers, using an adapted grounded theory methodology. We found four core factors capable of either promoting or preventing innovation: (1) the strategy and structures of the organization, (2) resources, especially time, (3) working culture; and (4) the dynamics of interaction between individuals and the community. Our key conclusion, fruitful to theorizing both innovation and compassion, is that for innovation to flourish, compassion is to be cultivated throughout an organization. It is not a single variable or practice, and it is in many ways in a key position regarding innovation: the existence of it promotes innovation, but the lack of it prevents innovation. Thus, organizations aiming for innovation should seek multifaceted understanding and skills in compassion.

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The changing role of innovation for crisis management in times of COVID-19: An integrative literature review

Cited by 58 publications

References 121 publications

Can environmental taxes and green-energy offer carbon-free E7 economies? An empirical analysis in the framework of COP-26

Can environmental taxes and green-energy offer carbon-free E7 economies? An empirical analysis in the framework of COP-26

“Stay home, save SMEs”? The impact of a unique strict COVID-19 lockdown on small businesses

Compassion—A key to innovation: What promotes and what prevents innovation in organizations?

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