COVID-19 Challenges: Can Industry 4.0 Technologies Help with Business Continuity?

The COVID-19 pandemic has halted economic activities and made business dynamics much more challenging by introducing several additional operational, structural, and managerial constraints. The problem has affected global supply chains in many ways, and has questioned their long-term continuity. On the other hand, Industry 4.0 is an emerging phenomenon. However, there is a need to investigate how Industry 4.0 technologies may play a potential role in sustaining business operations to ease unprecedented causalities. The current research aims to investigate the potentiality of Industry 4.0 technologies to solve the COVID-19 challenges for long term sustainability. From an exploratory literature analysis coupled with the Delphi method, keeping in view the situation of the pandemic, ten challenge groups that have affected global business dynamics were identified. A questionnaire was developed with the aim of accumulating industrial and academic experts to evaluate the degree of influence and interrelationship among the identified challenges. The Decision Making, Trial and Evaluation Laboratory (DEMATEL) approach was deployed to further analyze the challenges for the categorization of these into causes and effects, further prioritizing them for better decision making. The prioritized challenges from the list of causes were governmental policies and support, followed by real access to customers and a lack of infrastructure. Additionally, these challenges were further evaluated through the expert opinion of Industry 4.0 systems experts and strategic-level supply chain experts to potentially gauge the potency of Industry 4.0 technologies to solve COVID-19-induced challenges. The outcomes of this research (which used Delphi integrated with a DEMATEL approach) are expected to support businesses in formulating strategies with the aim of business continuity in combating future disruptions caused by COVID-19-like pandemics.

Institution Building in Indian Business: Dynamics and Dilemmas

This article examines an ‘Institution’ and its distinguishing features from ‘Organisation’. It enquires into the dynamics generated when Western structural assumptions juxtapose with an Indian world view, more particularly in Indian Family Businesses, that seek to transform into institutions. In this transformation into a ‘Modern’ institution, several dilemmas, tensions and paradoxes emerge (often unseen) that have the risk of stalling progress, or in reducing the potential for institutional vibrancy and perpetuity. The integration depends on the wholesome cross-assimilation of these vastly different paradigms. This article delves into these invisible cross-currents and formulates a few hypotheses and recommendations for regeneration and vitality.

Efisiensi Pengungkapan Modal Intelektual dalam Perusahaan

The business dynamics of the 21st century have led to sudden changes. This sudden shift manifested itself as a shift from industry-based business to technology and knowledge. The purpose of this research is to understand various aspects that support the practice of intellectual capital disclosure, intellectual capital measurement methods, barriers and challenges to intellectual capital disclosure, as well as guidelines that can be used for intellectual capital disclosure. This research uses the library method. The type of information used in this research is secondary information sourced from previous literature. The results of the study indicate that the practice of disclosing intellectual capital is very important. This is because intellectual capital is important and relevant information that must be known by stakeholders. Intellectual capital is taken into account in the decision-making process, which can help companies manage assets more optimally. Basically, the guidelines regarding intellectual capital in Indonesia are implicitly stated in PSAK 19. Keywords: Efficiency, Disclosure, Intellectual Capital

Strategic Adaptive Leadership and Emerging Approaches to Online Marketing of a US Small Business Real Estate Firm in Response to COVID-19

The COVID-19 pandemic has changed the business dynamics for many organizations globally. This paper examines the demonstration of adaptable strategic leadership and marketing towards online and digital marketing approaches of a newly developed waterfront high rise condominium complex. As a result of COVID-19, business sales projections are off by 85%. This paper explores organizational development intervention practitioner-based applied qualitative action research that makes recommendations on the most resourceful options in which small businesses can attract customers and boost sales even with the pandemic. For this case study, the name Moreso, a fictitious name, will be used to respect the organization that provided the data used and approved the ability to publish these findings' privacy and intellectual capital. This research approach's value in this instance is built on the reality that many similar small businesses in the real estate industry experience these same dynamics because of COVID-19 but have no starting framework on how to respond.