Investigating the emerging COVID-19 research trends in the field of business and management: A bibliometric analysis approach

By Surabhi Verma, Anders Gustafsson. Journal of business research, 2020

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The COVID-19 pandemic has been labeled as a black swan event that caused a ripple effect on every aspect of human life. Despite the short time span of the pandemic—only four and half months so far—a rather large volume of research pertaining to COVID-19 has been published (107 articles indexed in Scopus and the Web of Science). This article presents the findings of a bibliometric study of COVID-19 literature in the business and management domain to identify current areas of research and propose a way forward. The analysis of the published literature identified four main research themes and 18 sub-themes. The findings and propositions of this study suggest that COVID-19 will be the catalyst of several long- and short-term policy changes and requires the theoretical and empirical attention of researchers. The offered propositions will act as a roadmap to potential research opportunities.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Strategy and Management

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Corporate Social Responsibility during COVID-19 Pandemic (2020, background): “The COVID-19 pandemic is one of the most impactful shocks worldwide [6,24] whose direct and indirect effects—derived from the security measures related to confinements, capacity of spaces, and social distance—expose the vulnerability of companies to extraordinary external forces, being able to encou”
Perceived social impacts of tourism and quality-of-life: a new conceptual model (2020, methodology): “Drawing from extant literature (Bian et al., 2020; Ramkissoon, 2020; Verma & Gustafsson, 2020), some examples of pro-social behaviours for residents as important stakeholders of the tourism industry could include: collective community tourism decision-making; maintaining a good online social…”
A Bibliometric Analysis of COVID-19 across Science and Social Science Research Landscape (2020, background): “[29]) and business and management (see Verma and Gustafsson [30]).”
Artificial intelligence and big data analytics for supply chain resilience: a systematic literature review (2022, background): “…latter have been observed due to the pervasive dissemination of false news that has caused further disrup - tion for businesses and everyday life (Verma & Gustafsson, 2020), to the tune of leading to what has been termed as an ‘infodemic’, spreading through online and mainstream media…”
Artificial intelligence in supply chain management: A systematic literature review (2021, neutral): “As a result of the discussions and following the recent trends in research (e.g. Byun et al., 2020; Kotler et al., 2019; Mahroof, 2019; Verma and Gustafsson, 2020), this study further recommends the following research propositions to be explored in future research.”