Reviewing COVID-19 Literature on Business Management: What It Portends for Future Research?

Margarida Rodrigues, Mário Franco, Nuno Sousa and Rui Silva
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Margarida Rodrigues: CEFAGE-UBI Research Center, Department of Management and Economics, Universidade da Beira Interior, Estrada do Sineiro, 6200-209 Covilhã, Portugal
Mário Franco: CEFAGE-UBI Research Center, Department of Management and Economics, Universidade da Beira Interior, Estrada do Sineiro, 6200-209 Covilhã, Portugal
Nuno Sousa: CETRAD Research Center, Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, 5000-801 Vila Real, Portugal
Rui Silva: CETRAD Research Center, Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, 5000-801 Vila Real, Portugal

Sustainability, 2021, vol. 13, issue 11, 1-21

Abstract: Who could have imagined that the COVID-19 crisis would affect the whole world? This means that all aspects of society, in general, have felt the consequences of the measures imposed to reduce contagion. Firms, businesses, and their management had to be and must continue to be resilient, and entrepreneurs creative to overcome the present and future impacts of the pandemic, which will be long-lasting. This study aims to map the existing literature on the topic and identify emerging ones. To provide a robust response to this objective, qualitative methodology was adopted through content analysis of the selected documents and the use of MAXQDA software to analyze qualitative data. In addition, a descriptive analysis of the selected documents is presented. The results obtained show there is still a shortage of studies, principally empirical ones, addressing this subject, to complete existing knowledge and thereby contribute to understanding the effects of the virus on businesses and their management. The main contribution of this article lies in a first systematization and coding of the literature, to identify emerging topics for study by academics, the foremost agents of knowledge.

Keywords: COVID-19; crisis; business; management; responses (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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