COVID-19-related supply chain disruptions: resilience and vulnerability of micro, small and medium enterprises

Cogent Business & Management, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 11(1)

Published: March 11, 2024

The COVID-19 outbreak created a global public health crisis to which governments responded with several measures, including lockdown on social and economic activities. This study assessed: (1) the supply chain disruptions caused by lockdown, (2) disruption effects performance of micro, small medium enterprises (MSMEs), (3) resilient strategies (responses) MSMEs adopted overcome challenges (4) how affected their responses varied across different MSME characteristics. Using descriptive statistics t-tests, found that reduced quantity, quality order lead time goods supplied. It also halted some other goods. Disruptions in MSMEs' reducing quality, variety stocked, reliability customers customer base. changing purchase arrangement, number employees, increasing product prices, closing businesses temporarily diversifying supplying essential products such as foods sanitary materials. Performance depending age, size, location, registration status, industry.

Language: Английский

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Spatial-temporal characteristics of agricultural economic resilience and spatial spillover effects of driving factors: evidence from provincial panel data in China

Frontiers in Environmental Science, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 13

Published: Jan. 31, 2025

Strengthening Agricultural Economic Resilience (AER) has become a crucial approach to ensuring food security and promoting sustainable social development, particularly in light of supply shocks such as limited resources, environmental pressures, stagnating agricultural profitability, diminishing demographic advantages. This study examines AER across 31 Chinese provinces from 2008 2020, analyzing its temporal evolution spatial distribution characteristics. Additionally, it assesses the spillover effects key driving factors using Spatial Durbin Model (SDM). The results indicate that China’s average rose 0.167 0.266 during period, showing marked upward trend gradual reduction regional disparities. Furthermore, exhibits strong positive correlation, with higher concentrations eastern central regions, while northeastern western areas show lower levels. Key market scale, GDP, inputs, research conditions, urbanization all shape AER. influence these on highlights presence effects. Notably, regression coefficient for is −0.001, significant at 5% level, indicating negative effect. In contrast, Market Scale, Agriculture Factor Inputs, Environmental exhibit effects, 5%. other are not significant. findings provide practical knowledge policy adjustments enhancing interregional coordination boost

Language: Английский

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Firm Performance During a Crisis: Effects of Adhocracy Culture, Incremental Product Innovation, and Firm Size

Journal of Hospitality & Tourism Research, Journal Year: 2022, Volume and Issue: 48(1), P. 153 - 183

Published: April 8, 2022

The government-mandated closure of U.S. restaurants for in-restaurant dining during the early stages COVID-19 crisis cast a spotlight on operators’ ability to effectively innovate, and re-imagine their product offerings. In this context, research draws resource-advantage theory competitive advantage, proposing that (1) an adhocracy culture is key internal resource operators can leverage drive rapid incremental innovation under forced change, (2) firm size contextual factor moderates degree innovation-firm performance relationship. Findings from two empirical studies indicate positively indirectly effects through innovation, effect moderated by size. Larger firms yield superior due access network interconnected resources diffusion in crisis.

Language: Английский

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The interplay of personality traits and motivation in leisure travel decision-making during the pandemic

Tourism Management Perspectives, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 46, P. 101095 - 101095

Published: March 1, 2023

COVID-19 has negatively affected the travel and tourism industry may continue to do so in future. Therefore, hospitality businesses need pay attention consumer reactions, concerns, motives for travelling this era. This study leverages stimulus-organism-behaviour-consequence (SOBC) model examine psychological factors that influence Japanese travellers' intention willingness premiums safe by analysing data from 790 respondents. The findings of reveal extraversion positively associates with introjected motivation amotivation. Neuroticism personality type amotivation motivation. Introjected perception during COVID-19, whereas a non-significant association COVID-19. Perception travel. Finally, no effect on These provide valuable theoretical managerial implications.

Language: Английский

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The Relationship of Corporate Social Responsibility with Business Performance—A Bibliometric Literature Review

Sustainability, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 16(7), P. 2637 - 2637

Published: March 22, 2024

The significant role of corporate social responsibility (CSR) in achieving sustainability and meeting the expectations stakeholders has been well documented. Using a collection 2173 publications on CSR its connections with business performance, this study conducted bibliometric investigation using Systematic Literature Network Analysis (SLNA) technique combined network visualizations to demonstrate current research trends, most topical themes developing areas interest growing field linkages performance for an approximate period from 2004 2023 as published Scopus database two decades. goal was explore gaps by analyzing cited authors impactful year, location, subject area document type. also outlined trends topic prevalence, commonly used keywords citation networks based co-occurrence co-authorship identify thematic gaps. results reveal mild rate growth scholarly around until 2022, where manifold increase recorded. An expanding focus human, organizational behavior, economic systems, financial leadership, stakeholder management science identified, although there is scarcity studies issues regarding countries, climate change, disclosure small businesses. These findings state offer interesting insights timely directions roadmap future studies.

Language: Английский

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Gastronomy and wine tourism transformation towards resilient destinations

Tourism Review, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: unknown

Published: March 14, 2024

Purpose The purpose of this study is to develop research questions and explore industry expert perceptions related the process transformative changes in post-COVID-19 gastronomy wine tourism. Design/methodology/approach To achieve purpose, authors applied individual collective brainwriting techniques using digital whiteboard, Mural. were answered within Mural's Sailboat template, which helped experts describe four situational areas their symbolic elements. These included change – island, strategies wind, challenges anchors strengths coral. exploration was conducted across interpersonal, organisational intra-destination levels. Findings This results yielded a know-how framework that synthesised insights experts. underscores importance sequential approach embrace mindsets, practices systems. It also advocates (new leadership style, business solutions community empowerment), potential (self-doubt, established culture inertia large systems) leveraging (personality traits, human resources interdependence) effectively navigate evolving tourism environment. Originality/value paper represents pioneering effort assessing key drawing parallels essential levels transformation required cope with upcoming uncertainties.

Language: Английский

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Innovating for impact: Proposing quality 4.0 integration to achieve sustainable development goals in microenterprises

Business Strategy & Development, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 7(2)

Published: April 22, 2024

Abstract In today's highly competitive global market, companies aim to improve their market position ensure competitiveness and survival. The adoption of Industry 4.0 technologies constitutes a good approach enhancing processes productivity while maintaining high‐quality standards. This is where Quality becomes crucial, as it focuses on boosting the quality organisational through integration disruptive from 4.0. Furthermore, are prioritising implementing environmentally friendly practices in that support sustainable development. Therefore, imperative evaluate how application can ease production improvements with minimal environmental impact also aligning development goals. article analyses these initiatives be used within food industry, specifically those dedicated sale product, evaluating microenterprise artisanal ice cream. A comprehensive framework proposed for its potential Using PDCA cycle, original situation evaluated later recommend strategies tools create enterprise.

Language: Английский

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Adoption of Sustainability Innovations and Environmental Opinion Leadership: A Way to Foster Environmental Sustainability through Diffusion of Innovation Theory

Sustainability, Journal Year: 2022, Volume and Issue: 14(21), P. 14547 - 14547

Published: Nov. 5, 2022

Environmental sustainability is a major challenge for the governments of various countries. The industrial sector and growth startups have created sustainable development, with little concept innovativeness environment sustainability. current research aims to foster environmental by adopting innovation opinion leadership in hospital industry. adoption along industry rarely studied literature. Particularly, this completely ignored context Pakistan. Quantitative approach employed study. A survey instrument form questionnaire was used collect data from respondents. Respondents study were employees working public hospitals Simple random sampling collection. analysis carried out using partial least square-structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM). findings concluded that role trialability, innovativeness, compatibility, simplicity, relative advantage must be considered when hospitals. practical theoretical implications are significant improvement

Language: Английский

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Identifying core “responsible leadership” practices for SME restaurants

International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management, Journal Year: 2022, Volume and Issue: 35(2), P. 419 - 450

Published: July 11, 2022

Purpose The purpose of this study is to identify the core responsible leadership (RL) practices that are most relevant small- and medium-sized enterprises (SME) restaurants. Furthermore, authors adapt scales measure these conduct a pilot evaluate their impact on business performance in such establishments. Design/methodology/approach Exploratory sequential mixed methods used fulfill research aims. In first phase, set definitions associated with RL derived from systematic literature review. Second, projective method data collection applied, involving panel 16 experts. Third, fuzzy cognitive map developed, which captures responses 40 owners or general managers SME Findings Twenty-five identified results show five match order importance assigned by experts: societal orientation, ethics, stakeholder involvement, power-sharing environmental orientation. relevance those validated explain restaurants’ financial innovation performance. Practical implications Innovation key advancing sustainability resilience, specific enable improvements be made among Originality/value This paper identifies particularly tourism field (specifically, restaurant industry), offers measurement for provides empirical evidence relationship between

Language: Английский

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SME resilience as a catalyst for tourism destinations: a literature review

Journal of global entrepreneurship research, Journal Year: 2022, Volume and Issue: 12(1), P. 23 - 44

Published: March 29, 2022

Language: Английский

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