COVID-19 Research in Business and Management: A Review and Future Research Agenda

Ali Zackery (), Joseph Amankwah-Amoah, Zahra Heidari Darani and Shiva Ghasemi
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Ali Zackery: Department of Industrial Engineering and Futures Studies, Faculty of Engineering, University of Isfahan, Isfahan 81746-73441, Iran
Joseph Amankwah-Amoah: Kent Business School, University of Kent, Chatham ME4 4TE, Kent, UK
Zahra Heidari Darani: Department of Industrial Engineering and Futures Studies, Faculty of Engineering, University of Isfahan, Isfahan 81746-73441, Iran
Shiva Ghasemi: Department of Industrial Engineering and Futures Studies, Faculty of Engineering, University of Isfahan, Isfahan 81746-73441, Iran

Sustainability, 2022, vol. 14, issue 16, 1-32

Abstract: Although the COVID-19 pandemic has generated voluminous research in mainstream business and management, there remains a need for a robust state-of-the-art review of the current diverse streams of research that have scattered across different fields. To address this lacuna in the current growing body of research, we conducted a systematic review of 152 COVID-related papers in the field of business and management published in top-tier journals to identify the impact of the pandemic on business activities. Based on the review, we classified the topical foci of the selected studies under three broad categories (i.e., corporate strategy, corporate design and culture, and contextual environment) and 13 sub-categories (e.g., CoVsumption, uncertainty asphyxiation, and normalization of meta-firms), which are the recurring themes in the papers. We correspondingly outline new avenues for future research and the theoretical and practical implications of this study. The findings revealed that, during the pandemic, adaptive strategies to survive the pandemic took precedence over shaping strategies to build post-COVID realities.

Keywords: COVID-19 pandemic; systematic literature review; business and management; fundamental uncertainty; liminal opportunities (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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