ABSTRACT
Global business has been affected by several unprecedented and significant problems and threats in the recent past. This book offers comprehensive strategies for managing crises and disruptions to reinvigorate productivity and performance.
It discusses themes and issues like crisis management; consumer behaviour during crisis; emerging business models and trends in global business; and risks, impacts and mitigation strategies. The book provides an overview of business processes highlighting the unique challenges that the COVID-19 pandemic and other recent developments have wrought on businesses including disruptions in supply chains, health and safety risks for employees and economic and logistical vulnerabilities, among others. Including case studies from various sectors and industries, the chapters in this book provide solutions and interventions like adopting technological improvements and innovative labour practices for organisations to deal effectively with uncertainty and adapt sustainable and effective models for growth and performance for their businesses.
Lucid and topical, this book will be useful for scholars and researchers of business management, crisis management, finance and economics, as well as for business and corporate professionals.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|85 pages
Global business and crisis management
chapter Chapter 4|15 pages
A taxonomy of “technology venture – incumbent collaborations” during crisis
chapter Chapter 5|14 pages
Change in buying behaviour of Indian consumers post-COVID-19 crisis
part II|119 pages
Global business and industrial sectors during crisis
chapter Chapter 9|16 pages
Risks that impacted the agriculture supply chain during the COVID-19 pandemic
chapter Chapter 12|18 pages
Social resources and resilient workforce
chapter Chapter 13|14 pages
Does economic policy uncertainty and geo-political risk influence tourists' arrivals?
chapter Chapter 14|17 pages
Resistance mechanism of the Indian business environment during COVID-19 using the PEST framework
part III|30 pages
Case studies