Technology enabled communication during COVID 19: analysis of tweets from top ten Indian IT companies using NVIVO

Abstract

The corona virus (COVID-19) pandemic has impacted industries across the globe. Lockdown was imposed to curb the spread of the deadly virus. This resulted in closure of the factories and manufacturing units. Few sectors switched to work from home (WFH) for the first time. The present study aims to understand and analyze the way in which Information Technology (IT) sector communicated on Twitter during the pandemic. The top ten IT companies in India were selected on the basis of net sales. Qualitative data analysis was employed to extract tweets, understand and analyze them. Tweets were extracted from the official Twitter handles of these top ten IT companies using N-Capture extension tool of NVivo 12 software from April 1, 2020 to April 30, 2021. To get insights out of collected data, Word Cloud, TreeMap and Sentiment Analysis of tweets were carried out using NVivo 12 software. The research found that IT companies focussed on digital transformation, business development, customer satisfaction and enriching customer experience, new product development for healthcare and insurance and organizational resilience. They also focussed on effective communication through Twitter in times of crisis. Most of the companies tweeted moderately positive. Very small numbers of tweets were found to be very negative.

Dataset Analysis of the Risks for Russian IT Companies Amid the COVID-19 Crisis

“…Unlike Chawla et al (2023); Sudershanaa et al (2021) and Sydorenko et al (2022), we proved that, despite the wide capabilities of automatization under the conditions of stability in the market environment, it is inaccessible or inexpedient for Russian IT companies under the conditions of the COVID-19 pandemic and crisis. This is why these companies should not reduce personnel.…”

“…Completely opposite variants are possible. One variant involves a reduction in the significance of human resources against the background of a crisis and the preference for reduction in personnel to retain the break-even situation of IT companies, i.e., reduction in the risk burden for companies (Chawla et al 2023). Another variant, on the contrary, is connected with assigning human resources a key role in the reduction in risks for IT companies amid an economic crisis (Błaszczyk et al 2022;Chen et al 2023;Li et al 2021;Pai et al 2022;Petermann and Zacher 2022;Skhvediani et al 2022;Tomer et al 2021;Zhang et al 2023).…”