International Journal of Organizational Analysis: Volume 31 Issue 1

Guest editorial: Sustainable business resilience and development in the pandemic economy: insights from organizational and consumer research

George Lodorfos, Ioannis Kostopoulos, Anastasia Konstantopoulou, Moade Shubita

Signaling downsizing intentions after a major crisis: does managerial authenticity matter?

Vivien E. Jancenelle, Dominic Buccieri

The purpose of this study is to investigate the link between downsizing cues and market performance prior to and after a major crisis. We use a recent exogenous shock – the…

Organizational crisis preparedness during the COVID-19 pandemic: an investigation of dynamic capabilities and organizational agility roles

Mostapha El Idrissi, Younès El Manzani, Widad Ahl Maatalah, Zakaria Lissaneddine

While there is a consensus that dynamic capabilities (DC) and organizational agility are two key mechanisms that help firms to survive and cope with the environment’s dynamic…

Education in the pandemic economy: attitudes towards distance learning as a drive of university students’ decision making

Soultana Anna Toumpalidou, Kleopatra Konstantoulaki

Over the past year, the widespread pandemic has changed people’s lifestyles around the world. Educational services providers had to adapt to this new reality. Therefore, distance…

OTT platforms resilience to COVID-19 – a study of business strategies and consumer media consumption in India

Kavita Sharma, Emmanuel Elioth Lulandala

COVID-19 preventive measures disrupted the media and entertainment business ecosystem, increased over the top (OTT) consumption, brought new OTT players, thus increased…

Readiness for sustainable-resilience in healthcare organisations during Covid-19 era

Albi Thomas, M. Suresh

Using total interpretive structural modelling (TISM), this paper aims to “identify”, “analyse” and “categorise” the sustainable-resilience readiness factors for healthcare during…

Readiness for lean-sustainability in start-ups during the COVID-19 era

Aswathy Sreenivasan, M. Suresh

This study aims to “identify”, “analyse” and “categorise” the lean-sustainability enablers for start-ups during the COVID-19 epidemic using total interpretive structural modelling…

Digital marketplace for tourism resilience in the pandemic age: voices from budget hotel customers

Miftachul Huda

This paper aims to examine the initiative of low-price hotels, budget hotels, in Malaysia, to restore the financial sustainability through empowering the digital marketplace…

Impact of COVID-19 on corporate social responsibility in India – a mixed methods approach

M.S. Sai Vinod, Pranav Umesh, N. Sivakumar

Prior research studies have discussed the role of corporate social responsibility (CSR) during crisis situations in increasing the resilience and sustainability of the companies…

The economic impact of corporate social responsibility on the development of indigenous communities: evidence from Ghana’s mining sector

Moade Shubita, Sabbir Ahmed, Michael Essel-Paintsil

This study aims to examine the socio-economic and environmental impacts of mining activities as perceived by communities in Ghana, with data being drawn from primary and secondary…

Rethinking the strategic management of human resources: lessons learned from Covid-19 and the way forward in building resilience

Dorothea Roumpi

Numerous empirical studies and meta-analyses have offered ample evidence for the relationship between the strategic management of human resources and a variety of important…

Role of resilient leadership and psychological capital in employee engagement with special reference to COVID-19

Rakhi Singh, Priyanka Sihag, Aastha Dhoopar

The spread of the COVID-19 pandemic has led to an unseen crisis lately, which has put organizational leadership and employee engagement (EE) to test. Resilient leadership (RL…

Fostering firm resilience through organizational ambidexterity capability and resource availability: amid the COVID-19 outbreak

Salma Gayed, Raghda El Ebrashi

This study aims to study the impact of organizational ambidexterity capability and resource availability on firm resilience along with perceived environmental uncertainty playing…

What has been done and what has not – the government of Canada’s economic policy response to the coronavirus pandemic

Dmitriy Fedotov

This paper aims to examine Canadian government measures to support country’s economic recovery and sustainable development. The goal is to examine whether all orders of government…