COVID-19 Insights

COVID-19 Insights from Business Sustainability Scholars

Aiming to generate a better understanding of, ideas, and/or solutions to the Covid-19 pandemic, we are cooperating to promote a joint Online Essay/Opinion Forum for management scholars. We are seeking commentary essays discussing: How your current/previous research can help to develop better understanding and solutions for the Covid-19 pandemic and/or more generally for other natural environmental disasters and stressors (750 words max, Word file). To submit a commentary for review and possible posting, email Jorge Rivera.

March 26

• Judith Walls & Steve Walls, "What Can Corporations Do to Help Navigate the Storm that is COVID-19?"
• Jorge Rivera, "Responding to Slow Onset Disasters: The Boiling Frog Syndrome"
• Tima Bansal, "From Tima's Desk: Does the Coronavirus Offer Lessons for Climate Change?"
• Tobias Hahn, "The COVID-19 Pandemic, Paradox, and Sustainability"
• Andrew Hoffman & Dev Jennings, "How We Respond to COVID-19 Foreshadows Future Life in the Anthropocene"
• Jennifer Oetzel & Chang Hoon Oh, "Learning to Carry the Cat by the Tail: What We Know about Business Response to Disasters and How that Relates to the COVID-19 Crisis"
• Jonatan Pinkse, "Climate change in the Time of Corona: That's So 2019..."
• Nives Dolsak & Aseem Prakash, "Coronavirus and Global Supply Chain Disruption: A Wake-Up Call for Climate Policy?"
• Leopoldo Gutierrez-Gutierrez, Ana Castillo, & Ivan Montiel, "Companies vs. Coronavirus: A Call for Rapid Responsible Innovation"
• Herman Aguinis, "Understanding COVID-19: A Behavioral Corporate Social Responsibility Perspective"
• Martina Linnenluecke, "Resilience in Uncertain Times"

• Michael Barnett, "Good Distances Make Good Neighbors: Coordinating Self-regulation in the Face of Our Communal Crisis"
• Nardia Haigh, "Using Scenario Planning to Prepare for Pandemics"

• Dr. Sarah Birrell Ivory, "What is Essential?"
• Glen Dowell, "Why Don't Businesses See This Coming?"

• Andrew Crane, "COVID-19 and the destitution of workers in global supply chains"
• Juan L. Senga & Geoffrey A. Chua, "Blood Banking in the Time of Coronavirus"
• Pete Tashman, "The Socioecological Systems Framework, COVID-19 and Organizations"
• Kirsten Martin, "Privacy In The Age Of A Pandemic"
• Dror Etzion, Bernard Forgues, & Emmanuel Kypraios, "Pandemic bonds: The financial cure we need for COVID-19?"
• Fabien Martinez, "Covid-19, business and faith: An intriguing field for research in (and the practice of) responsible"

• Vera Ferrón Vílchez, "Are companies Coronawashing? Ten pieces of evidence"
• Sandra Waddock, "There’s a Crack in Everything. That’s Where the Light Gets In"
• Ralph Hamann, "Coronavirus will have long-term implications for business leaders. Here are the top five"
• Jill Brown, "Will a Global Pandemic and Recession Hit the Reset Button for Corporate Governance and Business/Stakeholder Relationships?"
• Paul Appiah-Konadu and Oreva Atanya, "COVID-19: A Wake Up Call for Collaborative Action Towards a More Sustainable Nigeria"
• Anne S. Tsui, "COVID-19 crisis: A call for responsible leadership research"

• Farok J. Contractor, "What Does “Flattening the Curve” Mean? Will It Also Flatten the Global Economy?"
• Kenneth Amaeshi, "COVID-19 and philanthropy in Africa: a stitch in time?"
• Jaigris Hodson and Sarah Wolfe, "Stockpiling Bottled Water? Maybe Social Media is To Blame"
• Louise Curran, "The trade policy implications of COVID-19"
• Ilan Alon and Shaomin Li, "Is Authoritarian Response to Covid19 Superior?"
• Shaista E. Khiliji, "Could this be the ‘wake-up call’ that we need?"

April 15

• Carlos Martin-Rios, "Do-undo-redo: unlocking sustainable strategic renewal in services after the coronavirus"
• Ranjith PV and Uma Warrier, "Community kitchen for common man in the times of coronavirus"
• Klaus Meyer, Carsten Lund Pedersen, and Thomas Ritter, "The coronavirus crisis: A catalyst for entrepreneurship"
• Wendy Smith and Natalie Slawinski, "What can the Covid-19 crisis teach us about the importance of geographical communities to enable human connection?"
• Valentina De Marchi, "What about the toiletpapergate? Global pandemics and sustainability in a world of global value chains"
• Rajat Panwar, "Preventing future pandemics: A research avenue for corporate sustainability/social responsibility scholars"
• Ijeoma Nwagwu, "How Covid-19 is changing philanthropy and responsible business practices in Africa"
• Cynthia E. Clark, "Let values drive your board"

April 21

• Jonathan Doh, "Covid, culture, and political-economic systems"
• Luis A. Perez-Batres and Len J Treviño, "Exposure, black swans, and real options"
• Mette Morsing, "The return of the state"
• Frederick Ahen, "COVID–19: I saw it coming and was vilified for taking it serious!"
• Robert Sroufe and Marissa Mitzner, "Lifting the mask of materiality"
• Ilan Alon, "Covid-19 and international business: A viewpoint"
• Sophie Bacq, "The power of social entrepreneurship in the face of urgent grand societal challenges"

April 28

• Miguel Ángel López-Navarro, "Post-COVID-19. Reflections on the role of the firm in addressing environmental sustainability"
• Christopher Wickert, "Let´s also flatten the climate curve!"
• K.V. Sriram, "Post COVID 19: Economic and Social Impact in India"

May 4

• Arijit Paul, Romana Rauter, and Rupert J. Baumgartner, "‘Glocalization’ in a post-COVID-19 world"
• Smaranda Boroș, Anita Bosch, and Yuliya Shymko, "North meets South: A call for inclusive global research"

May 26

• Mark A. Clark, "Collaborating in a Pandemic: Coordination through Adaption and Information Sharing"
• Timo Busch and Sabine Döbeli, "Sustainable Finance in Corona Times"

June 2

• Dr. Anica Zeyen and Dr. Oana Branzei, ""Disabled" by COVID19?"

July 2

• Graeme Auld and Stefan Renckens, "Eco-Audits during Covid-19 Retain Credibility, Exacerbate Inequities"

July 30

• Tima Bansal, "What Business Professors Are Saying about COVID-19"

August 17

• Deserai A. Crow, Lindsay Neuberger, Danielle Blanch Hartigan, Rob DeLeo, and Tom Birkland, "Despite What You’ve Heard, Americans Support Wearing Masks and other Efforts to Reduce Exposure to COVID-19"

This forum brings together business school researchers from multiple professional societies:

• Organizations and the Natural Environment Division of the Academy of Management (ONE)
• Alliance for Research on Corporate Sustainability (ARCS)
• Group for Research on Organizations and the Natural Environment (GRONEN)
• Network for Business Sustainability (NBS)
• Responsible Research for Business and Management Network (RRBM)
• Social Issues in Management Division of the Academy of Management (SIM)