Predicting factors affecting business operations during pandemic COVID-19

Abstract

PurposeThe global COVID-19 pandemic has rapidly overwhelmed our societies, shocked the global economy and disturbed normal business operations. While such impacts of COVID-19 are becoming clearer, the effects of the disease on business operations are more common. This study mainly focuses on identifying the factors that affect the smooth operation of businesses during a pandemic situation.Design/methodology/approachAnalytical hierarchy process (AHP) method was used to rate the result index. A total of 40 professionals and experts of different businesses were listed on stock exchanges, and asked to rank the key variables with relative indices and weighting methods.FindingsThe results of the AHP successfully assigned weighting scores to all key important factors during the COVID-19 pandemic situation that businesses should focus on, with economic factors receiving the highest score of 60%. Likewise, the other factors that impact values for business operations are reported as social (22%), legal (12.2%), technological (5.16%) and political (0.57%). The results of this study also match with the current policies adopted by different government and nongovernment agencies like the guidelines of the World Health Organization and some most recent research results.Originality/valueIn the hectic and growing environment under COVID-19 pandemic, more contributions are not enough, and it is helpful for the whole business industry and society by stipulating more views. This study aims to overview the global impacts and challenges of COVID-19 pandemic on business operations.

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Recent advancements in pharmacological strategies to modulate energy balance for combating obesity

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Human-beaver cohabitation in the Early and Mid-Holocene of Northern Europe: Re-visiting Mesolithic material culture and ecology through a multispecies lens

“…As Eitler (2014) reminds us, however, the role of animals cannot simply be cast as invariant and hence as a priori given – that is, as a mere consequence of supposedly essential species-level qualities (see also Haraway, 2003; Howell, 2018). There is a pressing need to historicize animal behaviour and affect in order to make space for the animals themselves as historical agents and contexts of action (Hussain, 2023c). To qualify the involvement of animals in human material, social, and cognitive pasts arguably requires detailed contextual analysis of historically specific conditions of interspecies encounter, negotiation, and facilitation (Haraway, 2003, 2008; Tsing, 2012), and therefore depends on multi-stranded, synthetic investigations that couple conceptual and data-driven analyses in bold yet powerful ways.…”

“…From an archaeological point of view, beavers frame a particularly interesting case of human-nonhuman intersection since they provide a paramount example of a species who acts upon and alters the ecology of its human co-inhabitants and in this way intercedes with human endeavours (Hjørungdal, 2019b; Hussain, 2023c; Riede, 2019). Another reason for focussing on the beaver is because previous research on the place of animal others in earlier prehistory has mostly privileged larger mammals – what Hjørungdal (2019b) has referred to as the ‘big hunter supremacy’ bias.…”