scholarly journals The Adoption and Utilization of Electronic Business in Response to Global Economy during COVID-19

2022 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 0-0
Keyword(s):  
Global Economy ◽  
Physical Contact ◽  
Business Organizations ◽  
Goods And Services ◽  
Doing Business ◽  
Top Managers ◽  
The Social ◽  
Rapid Spread ◽  
Community Transmission

The COVID-19 epidemic has triggered unmatched impairment to businesses globally. There are unmeasurable financial influences in the short-term and long-term and have causes intangible destruction within businesses. This study investigates the adoption and utilization of e-business during COVID-19 by both organizations and the general populaces. The study used a questionnaire-based survey to collect data from top managers of business organizations and their clients. SPSS was used to analyze the adoption factors. The outcomes presented that embracing e-business can assist to reduce the spread of COVID-19 and can reduce the physical ways of doing business. The findings of this study will help strategy makers, companies, and officials in making better decisions on the implementation of e-business. This will reduce the rapid spread of community transmission since ordering goods and services can easily be done virtually without physical contact, which goes in line with the social distance policy and in return boost the country’s economy

scholarly journals Lack of social touch increases anxiety and alters social behaviors in mice

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yu-Kai Ma ◽  
Pei-Yun Zeng ◽  
Yu-Hsin Chu ◽  
Chih-Lin Lee ◽  
Ching-Chuan Cheng ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Interactions ◽  
Animal Species ◽  
Social Behaviors ◽  
Physical Contact ◽  
Social Touch ◽  
The Social ◽  
Anxiety Levels ◽  
Long Term Observation ◽  
Different Levels

Abstract The importance of social interactions has been reported in different animal species. During the pandemic, although people can communicate through other sensory cues, social touch is mostly prohibited under different levels of social distance policies, which inspired us to explore the necessity of physical contact in mouse social interaction. In this study, we first conducted a long-term observation showing that pair-housed mice in a standard laboratory cage spent nearly half the day in direct physical contact with each other. Furthermore, isolation experiments demonstrated that, even with access to other sensations, prevention of social touch for one month significantly induced anxiety levels, changed social behaviors and increased interleukin-6 cytokine in the hippocampus and the serum of mice. Our study demonstrated the necessity of social touch for the maintenance of mental health in mice. This information could have important implications for human social interactions, especially the social policies during a pandemic crisis.

scholarly journals COVID-19: Recent updates on SARS-CoV-2 and Preventing its Community Transmission in India by 21 Days Lockdown

2020 ◽  
Vol 14 (suppl 1) ◽  
pp. 921-929
Author(s):  
Satyajeet K. Pawar ◽  
Shivaji T. Mohite
Keyword(s):  
Hubei Province ◽  
Hand Washing ◽  
Contact Tracing ◽  
Wuhan City ◽  
Social Distancing ◽  
First Case ◽  
Rapid Spread ◽  
Community Transmission ◽  
Almost All

The current pandemic of COVID-19 has caused havoc all over world since its emergence and rapid spread. Within three months the virus SARS-CoV-2 which was isolated from pneumonia cases in Wuhan City, Hubei Province, China in late December 2019, has affected almost all countries. India reported its first case of COVID-19 from state of Kerala on January 30, 2020, a student returned from city of Wuhan. Till date in India the disease had affected 12759 patients with 420 deaths. With every passing day the mysterious virus is been uncovered with its unique characteristics enabling the researcher to unfold the various methods including hand washing and social distancing to curtail the pandemic. Measures like 21 days lockdown to certain extent are effective but considering asymptomatic spreaders, extended measured lockdowns will be useful in the long term war against COVID-19. Till the vaccine and therapeutic solutions are derived, answer to pandemic and SARS-CoV-2 lies in lockdown, social distancing, contact tracing and containment.

Time and Business Sustainability: Socially Responsible Investing in Swiss Banks and Insurance Companies

2018 ◽  
Vol 59 (7) ◽  
pp. 1410-1440 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Risi
Keyword(s):  
Social Welfare ◽  
Socially Responsible Investing ◽  
Insurance Companies ◽  
Business Organizations ◽  
Socially Responsible ◽  
Business Sustainability ◽  
Responsible Investing ◽  
The Social ◽  
Sustainability Practices

Business sustainability aims to combine market logic with social welfare logic. In literature, it is commonly assumed that sustainability and the social welfare logic associated with it are characterized by a long-term orientation. However, this assumption is problematic because this principle may not apply in certain contexts. This qualitative study challenges this assumption and focuses on the mechanisms by which time affects the adoption of sustainability practices in the context of socially responsible investing (SRI) practices in Swiss banks and insurance companies. The article provides insights into the mechanisms associated with different time horizons and investigates their effects on the adoption of SRI in financial intermediaries. It also shows how the dimension of time shapes interactions between the two institutional logics underlying SRI in business organizations through specific mechanisms.

scholarly journals Labor Absenteeism Categorization: the Modern Concept of Working Time Assessment

2019 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 146-154
Author(s):  
Svetlana Sotnikova
Keyword(s):  
Working Hours ◽  
Working Time ◽  
Modern Concept ◽  
Competitive Advantages ◽  
Economic Resource ◽  
Goods And Services ◽  
The Social ◽  
Absence Rate

Working hours are the key economic resource necessary for production of goods and services and promoting increase in competitiveness at all levels of management. Development of the social and labor relations in the country has made impossible calculation of traditional indicators of assessment of working hours’ use. The article discusses the factors thanks to which the concept of working time efficiency is getting its new socio-economic content. The transition from attendance management at work to absence rate management made it impossible to calculate traditional indicators for evaluating the efficiency of working time. Labor absenteeism is considered as an indicator of assessment of working hours’ use. The paradigm shift makes it necessary to study labor absenteeism. Evaluation of labor absenteeism is meant to be the basis of a professional approach to investing in labor efficiency, the main stimulus for finding and implementing the long-term competitive advantages of a working time resource in an organization.The use in national literature of the term «labor absenteeism» is characterized by high uncertainty. The indicator of labor absenteeism is designed to be a guarantee of professional approach to investment into efficiency of work, the main incentive of search and realization of long-term competitive advantages of a resource of working hours in the organization. The article provides the interpretation of the concept «labor absenteeism», its socio-economic content and meaning. Classification of types of labor absenteeism and the system of his indicators is offered. We put forward classification of types and rating system of labor absenteeism.

scholarly journals The New Global Economy: Time-Space Compression, Geopolitics, and Global Uneven Development

2001 ◽  
pp. 133-154 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Agnew
Keyword(s):  
Global Economy ◽  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Global Scale ◽  
Time Space ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
Space Compression ◽  
National Governments ◽  
Transportation Technologies

Two ideas have dominated discussion in recent studies of the social andpolitical impacts of globalization by those who think that globalization has had real e?ects and is not simply a synonym for the neo-liberal policies insti-tuted by many national governments beginning in the 1980s. The ?rst is the idea that everywhere in the world is becoming alike economically and culturally as a consequence of globalization. This is a scaling up from the national to a global scale of the old idea of “modernization.” From this perspective, common global norms about conduct, consumption standards, and cultural practices are spreading everywhere (John Meyer at Stanford University [e.g. Meyer 1996] and his students are perhaps representative of this thrust). This global modernization is often seen as brought about by causes implicit in a second idea, although proponents of the second idea may well not endorse the ?rst or vice versa. This is that current globalization is about the shrinking of the world because of revolutionary changes in communication and transportation technologies. In the long-term this process of “time-space compression” will produce greater economic similarities across places but immediately this need not be the case. Rather, di?erences between places may in fact intensify as involvement in a world of ?ows makes the characteristics of this or that place make the place more competitive globally. In the end, however, di?erent places will establish niches for themselves within the global economy, even if there is dislocation in the short-term.

scholarly journals Escalation of global risks and threats in a pandemic condition: financial and macroeconomic aspects

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (10) ◽  
pp. 20-27
Author(s):  
Tamara PANFILOVA ◽  
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Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Economic Development ◽  
International Trade ◽  
Global Economy ◽  
Social Protection ◽  
Global Risk ◽  
Goods And Services ◽  
Socio Economic Development ◽  
Economic Landscape

Potentially threatening phenomena on the way to stabilizing and overcoming depressive trends in the global economy in the medium and long term in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic have been identified and systematized, taking into account the identification of areas of global risk. The reformatting of the global socio-economic landscape is substantiated, which is determined by the course of the pandemic, the different rates of decline and recovery of the economic growth in general and in individual industries, the destabilization of public finances, the exacerbation of social protection problems. This is confirmed by the dynamics of international trade in goods and services, the aggravation of the global debt problem. Emphasis is placed on the need to form in each country the anti-crisis potential on a scientifically sound basis in order to counter external and internal threats and stimulate sustainable socio-economic development.

scholarly journals Handshake habit amongst medical practitioners, need to abandon and embrace an alternative: analytical study in view of COVID-19 pandemic

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (6) ◽  
pp. 2352
Author(s):  
Abhinav Jain ◽  
Aqsa Shaikh ◽  
Kriti Malhotra
Keyword(s):  
Tertiary Care Hospital ◽  
Tertiary Care ◽  
Physical Contact ◽  
Care Hospital ◽  
Suitable Alternative ◽  
Medical Practitioners ◽  
Term Change ◽  
Community Transmission ◽  
Questionnaire Form

Background: Doctors are often ignorant of safeguarding their own health. The present COVID-19 pandemic has necessitated maintenance of social distancing. Handshake is one of the forms of greeting and physical contact to show empathy to patient, however it carries risk of transfer of microbes. The need of the hour is to find a suitable alternative to handshake. Aims was to study the knowledge, attitude and practice of medical doctors in an Indian tertiary care hospital towards hand shake.Methods: Study targeted 500 medical practitioners in a tertiary care hospital by presenting them with a google based questionnaire form. The questions were based on the practice of handshake amongst medical practitioners and the preferred alternatives. Statistical analysis used: Descriptive and analytic statistics.Results: Despite 100% respondents being aware about guidelines to avoid non-essential physical contact, 37.3% respondents shook hands. Out of the 85 respondents who had a handshake only 57.6% (n=49) washed hands after handshake. Namaste or Aadab followed by wave gesture are the most acceptable alternatives to handshake for medical practitioners.Conclusions: According to the study a large number of medical practitioners find it difficult to completely quit handshakes, mostly because of habit even in this pandemic emergency. Namaste or Aadab or hand waving are the best alternatives to handshake. A long term change of habit to a universally acceptable “wave” gesture needs to be developed to prevent possible community transmission of infectious diseases.

scholarly journals The COVID-19 Crisis: Implications for the Development and Growth of Agricultural Sector in EU countries and Russia

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 37-46
Author(s):  
Baira Faulks ◽  
Song Yinghua
Keyword(s):  
Global Economy ◽  
Agricultural Sector ◽  
The Body ◽  
Sustainable Growth ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Eu Countries ◽  
The Social ◽  
Demand Changes ◽  
National Economies

The COVID-19 crisis impacted negatively sustainable growth and the wellbeing of businesses and national economies. The economic outlook of 2020 and 2021 reflects a slowdown in the global economy, with poverty and unemployment rates ascending, national debts growing, and fiscal and monetary burden increasing. All the sectors of the economy have been affected across all of the EU countries, including the agricultural sector. Coronavirus posed unprecedented challenges for the agricultural sector, ranging from a labour shortage to demand changes. Lockdowns caused immense disturbances in farmers’ supply chains, causing them to doubt their long-term viability. Due to the social distancing and restrictions on social gatherings, marketplaces either closed or were devoid of customers. At the same time, the agricultural sector has proved quite resilient during the COVID-19 crisis. In this paper, we discuss the challenges which the agricultural sector has faced during the COVID-19 pandemic, and suggest that further growth and development can be sustained through innovation, more precisely, digital technology. The current conceptual research contributes to the body by exploring the effect of the novel COVID-19 virus on national economies and especially the agricultural sector.

Effect of ICT on the Social Dimension of Short-Term and Long-Term Alignment of the Participants in the Construction of a Knowledge Society

2012 ◽  
Vol 601 ◽  
pp. 508-513
Author(s):  
Luić Ljerka ◽  
Miroslav Bojović
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Global Economy ◽  
Common Knowledge ◽  
Knowledge Society ◽  
Social Dimension ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Higher Education System ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Republic

Information and communication technologies are also facilitating a rapid globalization of economic activity. In an increasingly global economy, where knowledge about how to excel competitively and information about who excels are both more readily available, the effective creation, use and dissemination of knowledge is increasingly the key to success, and thus to sustainable economic and social development that benefits us all. Innovation, which fuels new job creation and economic growth, is quickly becoming the key factor in global competitiveness. In order to realize the goals stated, a modelling method was used by setting causal models derived by applying the PATH analysis, as viewed from the aspect of the social dimension of short-term and long-term alignment, which were obtained by conducting research on a sample composed of 45 institutions from the higher education system of the Republic of Croatia and their managers in permanent (finance director, secretary) and elective positions (chancellor, vice-chancellor, dean, vice-dean). Research results abstract the conclusion which expresses a novel premise that strategic planning of the integrated business and information system significantly depends on long-term management alignment, directly influenced by common knowledge on domain and financing. The propounded premise represents a possible impulse for further in-depth research that should be undertaken longitudinally in this author’s view, using as large sample of international character as possible.

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