Emerging social and business trends associated with the Covid-19 pandemic

IF 2 Q3 BUSINESS

Critical Perspectives on International Business Pub Date : 2021-02-17 DOI:10.1108/CPOIB-05-2020-0066

Hamideh Yeganeh

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Abstract

Purpose: This paper aims to identify, classify and study emerging social and business trends associated with the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic Design/methodology/approach: By adopting the meta-synthesis method, the study scrutinizes, synthesizes and interprets the findings from a pool of publications This approach results in identifying 53 key ideas that are classified under nine dominant trends Findings: The study identifies and examines nine major trends caused and intensified by the Covid-19 pandemic, i e the rise of authoritarianism, the new era of corporate welfare, deep imbalances in public finances, exacerbated inequalities, higher risks of poverty and famine, the dominance of giant corporations, the increasing influence of big tech, the accelerated innovation and the fluidity of work and organizations The paper suggests that these trends are the continuation of the past three decades’ transformations, are contributing to the rising concentration of power and wealth and are leading to a new type of globalization marked by high connectivity and low tangibility Originality/value: The originality of this paper resides in adopting a multidisciplinary approach to analyzing various social and business dimensions of a complex phenomenon While the study should not be viewed as a comprehensive investigation, it offers a groundwork for further research on Covid-19 © 2021, Emerald Publishing Limited

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与新冠肺炎大流行相关的新兴社会和商业趋势

目的：本文旨在识别、分类和研究与新冠肺炎大流行爆发相关的新兴社会和商业趋势设计/方法论/方法：通过采用元综合方法，综合并解释一系列出版物的研究结果。这种方法确定了53个关键想法，这些想法被归类为九个主要趋势。研究结果：该研究确定并审查了新冠肺炎大流行引起和加剧的九个主要趋势，即威权主义的兴起、企业福利的新时代、公共财政的严重失衡、，加剧的不平等、更高的贫困和饥荒风险、大公司的主导地位、大型科技日益增长的影响力、加速的创新以及工作和组织的流动性。论文认为，这些趋势是过去三十年转型的延续，导致了权力和财富的日益集中，并导致了一种以高连通性和低有形性为特征的新型全球化。原创性/价值：本文的独创性在于采用多学科的方法来分析复杂现象的各种社会和商业层面调查，它为进一步研究新冠肺炎提供了基础©2021，Emerald出版有限公司

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Critical Perspectives on International Business BUSINESS-

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4.20

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15.00%

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期刊介绍： In recent years, the business practices and management philosophies of global enterprises have been subject to increasingly close scrutiny by commentators in the fields of journalism and academia. Such scrutiny has been motivated by a growing desire to examine the nature of globalisation, its impact on specific communities and its benefits for society as a whole. Coverage includes, but is not restricted to, issues of: ■Globalization ■Production and consumption ■Economic change ■Societal change ■Politics and power of organizations and governments ■Environmental impact