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Aborode, A. T., A. A. Wireko, A. Mehta, T. Abdul-Rahman, E. P. Nansubuga, M. Kundu, M. Pustake, Q. Mehmood, and H. Tillewein. "Concern over Nipah virus cases amidst the COVID-19 pandemic in India." Thesis, Willey, 2022. https://essuir.sumdu.edu.ua/handle/123456789/87807.
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Nipah virus, a member of the paramyxoviridae family, is classified as a“virus of concern” by the World Health Organization (WHO).1,2 Nipahvirus is usually reported in Southeast Asia due to the geographicalprevalence of its natural host, thePteropusfruit bat.1,3It is a zoonoticinfection transmitted by direct contact with infected animals or viabodily secretions such as bat blood, saliva, and urine. The virus alsodemonstrates human–human transmission.4Nipah virus infectiongenerally affects the central nervous system in human hosts, causinginflammation of brain parenchyma (encephalitis) and can also causerespiratory symptoms.3Initial symptoms include fever, headache, later progressing to drowsiness, altered mental status, coma, andeven death.5As reported by Kenmoe et al. Nipah virus encephalitishas a pooled case fatality rate of 61%.6The current managementincludes symptomatic treatment due to lack of specific pharmaco-logical treatment for Nipah virus.
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Fahey, Nisha. "Epidemiology and Characteristics of Pediatric COVID-19 Cases Among UMass Memorial Health Care Patients." eScholarship@UMMS, 2021. https://escholarship.umassmed.edu/gsbs_diss/1140.
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Background: The epidemiology of SARS-CoV-2 infection in the pediatric population, with a focus on racial and ethnic disparities and impact of societal public health measures, remains poorly understood.
Methods: This large observational study used electronically abstracted data from pediatric (≤ 19 years of age) patients who received a molecular test for SARS-CoV-2 at a UMass Memorial Health Care (UMMHC) site between March 8, 2020 and April 3, 2021 which was further supplemented by manual chart review of a subset of pediatric SARS-CoV-2 cases. Multivariable logistic regression models with interaction terms were used to identify risk factors for SARS-CoV-2 infection. Segmented regression analysis using Poisson models was used to estimate the effect of public health measures on the weekly incidence of SARS-CoV-2 infection.
Results: A total of 25,426 unique pediatric patients were tested for SARS-CoV-2 among whom 2,920 (11.5%) tested positive. The average age of those who tested positive was 10.8 years (SD: 5.8) and 48.1% were female. In the subset analysis, nearly three-quarters (75.9%) of SARS-CoV-2 diagnoses occurred through a telephone encounter, meaning that the child was not physically examined by a provider prior diagnosis and only 2.0% were admitted for inpatient care at diagnosis. Results of multivariable regression revealed that children or parents who self-reported Black race, Hispanic ethnicity, and non-English primary language were associated with approximately twice the odds of testing positive in comparison with White or English-speaking patients. Furthermore, increasing age was associated with increased odds of testing positive for SARS-CoV-2 (aOR: 1.1 (1-4 years), 1.2 (5-9 years), 1.4 (10-14 years), 1.6 (15-17 years), 1.7 (18-19 years)). However, this association between age and positivity rate, varies by race/ethnicity and primary language such that Non-Hispanic Black, Hispanic, and non-English speaking children had markedly greater odds of testing positive during adolescence in comparison to Non-Hispanic White and English-speaking counterparts. Results from segmented regression analysis demonstrated a decline in weekly incidence of cases 9.9% (95% CI: 7.8 – 11.9) after the Massachusetts state mask mandate was implemented. During the winter holidays, the rate of increase in the weekly incidence of cases was 12.1% (95% CI: 11.9 – 12.3) in this pediatric population.
Conclusions: Many SARS-CoV-2 cases have been diagnosed at UMMHC sites and notable racial/ethnic disparities exist that vary based on patient age. Public health measures are effective at preventing transmission of SARS-CoV-2 among children.
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Shorikova, D. V. "COVID-19 infection and autoimmune vasculitis: clinical case." Thesis, БДМУ, 2022. http://dspace.bsmu.edu.ua:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/19628.
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Muzaffar, Aneela. "COVID-19 pandemic and social media : The Swedish case." Thesis, Högskolan i Halmstad, Akademin för hälsa och välfärd, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-42418.
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This thesis explains the role of social media in the COVID-19. It also discusses that what does the Swedish social media users think about the behavior of Sweden in this crisis situation. In depth interviews were conducted and results were analyzed qualitatively.
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Sotelo-Jiménez, Pedro Paolo, Navarro Enrique Moyano, Rodríguez Félix Tipacti, and Bravo Carlos Milla. "Spontaneous pneumomediastinum in patients with COVID-19. Case report." Instituto de Investigacion en Ciencias Biomedicas. Universidad Ricardo Palma, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10757/656799.
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Introducción: El neumomediastino es una patología poco frecuente y rara. Las manifestaciones radiológicas típicas en los pacientes en neumonía por SARS-CoV-2 consiste en la presencia de opacidades pulmonares bilaterales, de distribución periférica. En una reciente serie de pacientes con COVID-19 indica que el 1% de los pacientes pueden desarrollar neumomediastino espontáneo como complicación, generalmente es de curso benigno y no se aclara aún que ello puede suponer un indicador de agravamiento. Caso Clínico: Se trata de un paciente varón de 43 años que presentó un tiempo de enfermedad de 15 días caracterizado por dolor faríngeo, fiebre, dolor torácico y dificultad respiratoria, recibiendo múltiples esquemas de tratamiento tanto antiviral y antibióticos sin respuesta, por lo que acudió al Hospital Rebagliati donde se le encontró insuficiencia respiratoria, hipoxemia y sepsis. Su tomografía fue compatible con infiltrado en vidrio deslustrado, áreas de consolidación pulmonar bilateral y neumomediastino. No requirió tratamiento quirúrgico y evolucionó favorablemente a la neumonía con disminución de marcadores inflamatorios y remisión de neumomediastino en control tomográfico. Conclusión: Este reporte resalta que en la infección por COVID-19 las complicaciones pulmonares a tener en cuenta son la neumonía bilateral, coinfección bacteriana, sepsis y neumomediastino espontáneo.
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Widman, Cecilia. "Fostering Cooperative Resilience during the COVID-19 Pandemic : A case study on coffee cooperatives' operations during the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för samhällsstudier (SS), 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-100539.
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This study investigates the resilience of coffee cooperatives and producer organizations in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic and explores their adaptations to the context in relation to their livelihood capitals. The changes to their operations are analyzed through the contexts of shocks, trends and stresses and how they perceived these threats. The topic of research is relevant given the economic and social importance of cooperatives in these communities and potential impacts to their operations during COVID-19, which is likely to have long-term impacts locally and within the global setting.There is a lack of consensus regarding the classification of cooperatives as resilient organizations, with much of the previous research focusing on financial crisis or natural disasters. Furthermore, the COVID-19 pandemic has been an unprecedented event on a global scale with far-reaching impacts into social, economic and political spheres, and examining these effects is still a developing realm within academic research. The relationship of coffee producers and their organizations within the global commodity chains renders such organizations particularly vulnerable to the effects of COVID-19 and government policy interventions. Investigating how coffee cooperatives in Honduras have been operating throughout the COVID-19 pandemic assesses their potential capacity for resilience by examining how they have been impacted and the manners in which they have overcome these challenges. This further allows for increased understanding of cooperative resilience and ways in which cooperatives’ capital have the potential to impact their resilience.This research follows an abductive qualitative case study and utilizes semi-structured interviews from various coffee cooperatives and organizations in Honduras as primary sources with existing literature as secondary sources. The interviews were conducted remotely. The findings include accounts from cooperatives and producer organizations, which focus primarily on coffee production, in addition to reports from a privately owned coffee production enterprise and a cooperative member. The Vulnerability Context and Asset Pentagon, components of the Sustainable Rural Livelihoods Framework as described by the Department for International Development, were used to analyze the data, along with variables to assess organizational resilience. The study finds that investments to organizations’ human and social capital were prioritized and heavily relied upon during this crisis and the more established organizations had a larger range of resources from which to draw upon. Nevertheless, by continuing to develop and expand on human and social capital, cooperative organizations can increase their capacity for resilience.
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De, Lazzari Alessia <1997>. "Global Value Chains and Covid-19 challenges. Case study: Glass 1989." Master's Degree Thesis, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2022. http://hdl.handle.net/10579/21432.
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Il fine principale della tesi è quello di analizzare la situazione attuale delle catene globali del valore, di come abbiano dovuto affrontare nuove sfide a causa della pandemia la quale sta contribuendo all'affermazione del fenomeno delle regionalizzazioni.
In particolare, l'analisi vorrà evidenziare la fragilità del sistema dimostrata dal problema attuale che tutto il mondo si vede dover affrontare, ovvero il problema dell'approvvigionamento delle materie prime e dei loro costi.
A supporto dell'analisi verrà presentato il caso studio dell'azienda Glass 1989 srl; le difficoltà che la stessa sta ora ora affrontando sono le stesse che accomunano la gran parte delle aziende in tutto il mondo, le quali devono fare i conti con il problema dell'approvvigionamento delle materie prime e dei loro costi sempre più elevati, come quelli dei trasporti.
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Milojevic, Daniel, and Beka Katsadze. "Social Sustainability in COVID-19 Crisis : The Case of the Hotel Industry." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Företagsekonomiska institutionen, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-413340.
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The COVID-19 outbreak, travel restrictions, or other safety norms had a huge negative impact on the world hotel industry from the beginning of 2020. In response to the crisis majority of the hotels all around the world had decided to get closed temporarily. Such a deep crisis arose many social problems especially among the employees of the industry. However, there were still cases, when hotels decided to choose different strategies rather than closing their doors for their customers. One of us had a great opportunity to spend 14 days of quarantine in one of such hotels and to collect the valuable information from inside the hotel room, which had been converted into a quarantine zone after the virus outbreak. Besides, we also explored several more cases from 4 different countries about the hotels that have chosen to create social benefits in different ways. In this thesis, we have analyzed socially sustainable strategic solutions from the hotel industry, explored characteristics, and described the circumstances that encouraged such solutions.
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Rönningsberg, Olle, and Hove Sander ten. "COVID-19 and structural breaks : The case of the Swedish Housing Market." Thesis, Högskolan Dalarna, Institutionen för information och teknik, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:du-37703.
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This paper analyzes how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected the Swedish housing market, and in particular prices and shifts in trends. Different classes of housing objects in various counties are investigated. Combining web scraped housing data for the entirety of Sweden between 2016-01-01 and 2021-03-31, including economic, demographic, socioeconomic and locational data, a hedonic regression model is used to estimate how different variables influence the housing price. The base model is subsequently used to investigate if statistically significant structural breaks exist in relation to the COVID-19 pandemic for the different object types in the entire Swedish market and in certain specific counties. Structural breaks are found for the housing object types ‘Fritidshus’, ‘Lägenhet’ and ‘Radhus’ in the entire Swedish market and for “Villa” in Stockholm county shortly after the pandemic outbreak, suggesting there is evidence for a pandemic infused shift in housing price regime on the Swedish housing market for these object types in stated areas. Splitting the hedonic regression model into three, one pooled regression, one before and one after the identified breaks, and comparing the shifts in impact of the housing price determinants suggests different pandemic effects on different object types. The result indicates that for the object types ‘Lägenhet’ in the entire country and for ‘Villa’ in Stockholm county, living area has an increased impact on the price while the locational variable population density has a decreased impact after the breakpoint date compared to before. This could suggest that for permanent housing objects in these regions, living area might have become increasingly valued over location during the pandemic. The results further indicate the direct opposite effect on the shifted impact in living area and the population density for the price of the temporary housing type Fritidshus in entire Sweden. However, an indication for increased impact of the areas socioeconomic level is noted for all these three object types. These results hold as a ground for further research in the subject.
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Nickel, Bethany J. "High School Band Communities of Practice During COVID-19: A Multiple Case Study." Case Western Reserve University School of Graduate Studies / OhioLINK, 2021. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1623155976075894.
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Klinga, Maja. "Disease knows no borders : an online ethnographic case study during the Covid-19 pandemic." Thesis, Linköpings universitet, Institutionen för tema, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-170578.
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The aim of this thesis is to analyze the reactions and expressions towards the governmental regulations amongst Swedes in Spain during the Covid-19 pandemic. This is a qualitative online ethnographic case study where a online forum is analysed through a content analysis. The data has been understood through intersectionality theory, biopolitics as outlined by Michel Foucault and Sara Ahmed’s work on the cultural politics of emotions. The analysis identified various themes and as well as emotions circulating around these. Swedes in Spain are expressing their frustration and critique towards illogical and counterproductive regulations as well as showing irritation directed to their freedom of movement being taken away. Frustration and uncertainty are circulating in the discussions. Sociocultural categories such as class, nationality, gender and age as well as how they intensifie each other appear. The Covid-19 pandemic is affecting people in various ways, and the intersectional lens makes it possible to analyse how people depending on their privileges (or lack of) are able to cope with the regulations. This research shows on the importance of an feminist intersectional lens when evaluating the effects of the regulations during the Covid-19 pandemic in each country.
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Adamopoulos, Emmanouil, and Wasim Malik. "Crisis Management and Early-Stage Greek Startups : The case of COVID-19 pandemic crisis." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Industriell teknik, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-446437.
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The COVID-19 pandemic had a worldwide economic effect, and it seems to have produced a challenging economic climate for startups to work in. Thus, the aim of this degree project is to investigate how startups survived the financial and organizational crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, and what was the role of their employees during the crisis. The objective is to look at how early-stage startups in Greece are dealing with the COVID-19 crisis, whether they can utilize crisis management models, and how the crisis encourages creative destruction. Schumpeterian innovation theory has been merged with crisis management theories to achieve this goal. The thesis employs a qualitative methodology and uses a multiple case study design where cases are the individual startups interviewed. Semi-structured in-depth interviews were conducted with a top-management representative of each company. The results indicate that the startups under discussion are experiencing significant changes. At the beginning of the crisis, they faced a threatening disengagement and demotivation of their employees, which they managed to overcome by focusing on their wellbeing, coaching them, and guiding them through the crisis. The Caplanian model was utilized to analyze their approach. Based on the companies’ core competencies, they are actively pivoting to emerging business models and new markets. These companies are discovering new possibilities and innovating in a number of areas, following both the Schumpeterian evolutionary theories of creative destruction and creative accumulation. Overall, the findings suggest that in responding to the crisis, startups modified and strengthened their strategies. The shift in customer purchasing behavior was a major reason why businesses needed to develop their strategies. The modified consumer behavior was the outcome of actions taken by the Greek government and the Public Health Agency to avoid the spread of the virus such as social distancing, travel bans, and closed borders.
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Wang, Xiaoli. "Academic English editing in the era of COVID-19: A corpus-assisted case study." Master's thesis, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, 2021. http://amslaurea.unibo.it/22944/.
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This thesis aims to contribute to research on Academic English editing by examining the copy-editing and revision work on The Italian Economy after COVID-19: Short-term Costs and Long-term Adjustments, a collection of scholarly contributions on the socioeconomic and political consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic in Italy. The work was completed by three language professionals hired by the publisher, Bononia University Press (BUP). At the time, they were working for BUP as interns for the Digital Open Transformation (DOT) project, a collaboration between the publisher and the Department of Interpreting and Translation (DIT), University of Bologna. Through a corpus-based approach, this thesis seeks to reveal the possible cross-reviser inconsistencies due to individual inclinations and preferences in their editing and revision work and discuss the possible reasons behind them, thus providing evidence to the indispensability of well-defined rules and a functional workflow for Academic English editors and revisers.
In Chapter 1, previous literature, covering both research on editing and revision and genre-based research on Academic English, is reviewed. In Chapter 2, a brief account of the project setting, including information on the publisher, the revised book and the major participants in its publication process, the three revisers studied in this thesis, and their copy-editing and revision workflow, is provided. In Chapter 3, the methodology of this study is explained, along with the materials and tools used. In Chapter 4, the results of the analyses are presented and an attempt is made to discuss the possible reasons behind such inconsistencies based on previous literature, the revisers’ background information, and the project setting.
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Valerin, Niccolo' <1997>. "Supply chain disruption due to covid-19 pandemic (Morellato & Sector Ltd case study)." Master's Degree Thesis, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2022. http://hdl.handle.net/10579/21844.
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The aim of this paper is to provide a focus on the impact of Covid-19 pandemic on the supply chain of Morellato & Sector Ltd (the company where I recently experienced my working internship) and to see how the disruption brought by the virus has affected the business of the company since the pandemic hit from the beginning, after having provided the related literature background about the supply chain overall concept, its disruption phenomena and the role of the impact of the pandemic on global supply chains.
Starting with an overall representation of the problem by bringing a portrait of the background linked with the literature written above, the central part of the elaborate will cover the role of the covid-19 pandemic and then we will link to the case study: the paper will present both positive and negative sides related to the pandemic that affected the behavior of the company and how the latter dealt with and it is dealing with them, by concluding with the overall result gained at the moment.
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Hicintuka, Melissa, and Helin Öven. "Covid-19: How does it affect international e-commerce firms? : A qualitative case study about how the Covid-19 situation affects e-commerce firms and how they respond to it." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för organisation och entreprenörskap (OE), 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-96835.
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The purpose of this thesis is to investigate how Covid-19 affects international e-commerce firms. Covid-19 has been the source of changes in the international business environment across world from the beginning of year 2020. The effects on e-commerce firms are nearly unknown, therefore this research is unique. The aim of this study is to gain more knowledge on how international e-commerce firms are responding to the pandemic. By following a qualitative research method, the study will explore and conduct a deeper understanding on the e-commerce firms experience through a data collection. The literature review has been established, theories are mostly related to digital business environment and international value chain activities. The literature review has been summed up into a conceptual framework which illustrates the connections between the theories and Covid-19. Furthermore, the conceptual framework has been used to analyze the findings from the empirical data which was conducted in a multi-case study. The analysis chapter discusses similarities differences between the cases and connection to theory. Lastly, the conclusion chapter of this thesis concludes the findings and analysis, and it contains theoretical implications, recommendations, limitations and suggestions for future research.
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Carraro, Federica <1997>. "Monitoring, controlling and reducing absenteeism cost – a Luxottica case analysis during the Covid-19 Pandemic." Master's Degree Thesis, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10579/20323.
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Organizations are faced with a continual battle: doing whatever necessary in order to reduce costs and increase productivity. Several studies show that absenteeism is one of the greatest cost affecting businesses. With absenteeism is intended the cost related to employee’s absence, meaning all those days and working hours in which employees were supposed to be at work but for some reasons they weren’t. There are several reasons behind worker’s absence, from stress to personal and family issues, however this thesis will not focus only on the psychological reason behind the absenteeism problem. The main issues that it wants to deepen regard how firms are able to track and control absenteeism putting in place efficient absence management systems and how they are able to reduce it by developing new and innovative solutions. Moreover, even if the absence rate has always been tremendously high, companies nowadays during the covid-19 pandemic are struggling even more to try to monitor it, with the aim of avoiding further performance problem other than those brought by the pandemic. Thus, the real aim of this thesis is to show thanks to a case study of Luxottica, the company in which I have been working for the last 4 months, how the trend of absenteeism change and how this is connected to an increase in company costs. Moreover, I want to show how the cost has been strongly affected by the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic and how the company is putting in place solutions in order to limit its negative effects. The thesis will be started by looking at the literature review from google scholar, management journals and several surveys answered by firms on the topic both at the Italian and also at the international level. Then the topics will be deepened with the analysis of the Luxottica absenteeism trend. The focus will be on measuring the absenteeism cost in Luxottica and comparing it with financial results in order to see how strongly its impact on company performance is, giving also a taste of which are the main initiatives put in place by the company to reduce this problem (for example, change in smart working %, initiatives to foster presence at work and to protect employees while working during the pandemic period).
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Yáñez, Jaime A., Aldo Alvarez-Risco, and Jaime Delgado-Zegarra. "Covid-19 in Peru: From supervised walks for children to the first case of Kawasaki-like syndrome." BMJ Publishing Group, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10757/652436.
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Andersson-Junkka, William, and John Lystrand. "Covid-19: Balancing risk and reward in business : A multi-case research studying Covid-19’s effects Swedish based firms’ supply chains and whether firms’ risk management has been sufficient or not." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för ekonomistyrning och logistik (ELO), 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-96912.
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When global complications occur firms must possess the capability to work around the new obstacles and aim to proceed with their operations as normal as possible. With the Covid-19 situation escalating day by day, the worries regarding if the companies of the world grow consequentially. This research has then been conducted with multiple cases in order to understand if the supply chains for production firms as well as service supply chains for service firms has been compromised in any way. If this is the case, the authors also aimed to find out whether there were any specific measures within the supply chains that can be applied to lower the negative consequences. To gain another level of depth to the understanding of the situation, the authors also chose to analyze the risk management aspect of the selected firms, to see if a lack of risk management and risk preparedness can affect the issues for the firm. The findings of this paper ultimately reveal that cases with a high level of internalization and that are operating with a service supply chain are managing the urgent situation to a better degree, with fewer complications due to Covid19.
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Vernersson, Josef, and Al-Kilani Samer Zaid. "Education Management During COVID-19 : A Single Case Study of Swedish Higher Education Institute Jönköping University." Thesis, Jönköping University, Internationella Handelshögskolan, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-53090.
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Background:COVID-19 is the most discussed topic since the beginning of the year. Moreover, today's society faces various problems caused by the COVID-19 crisis requiring new knowledge and strategies since various social institutions are affected in different ways, and the education system is included between these institutions. In fact, higher education institutions witnessed a huge transition from traditional classroom-based teaching to a virtual approach and online education. While higher education may have transformed and moved to online due to COVID-19, it is unknown whether the transition resulted in a changeddirectionfor education management. Purpose:This study aims to take a deeper look into how students and teachers are affected by COVID-19 for a higher education institution in Sweden by seeking through how online platforms are used and how it is affecting the users of education. Moreover, the study aims to know what changed in management practices and grading strategies fora sustainable university education quality during pandemics and emergencies. Method:Fulfilling the purpose, qualitative research design gathering empirical data by conducting semi-structured interviews with both students and teachers and taking a single case study approach for Swedish higher education Institute (Jönköping University) using the benefit of various perspectives from different schools that Jönköping University has. Also, higher education in Sweden combines the perspective from both students and teachers as it is on the concept 'freedom with responsibility' with students mainly pursuing their studies on their own or in groups and not focusing on the teacher perspective only. Another unique asset for Sweden higher education is the possibility to access all data collected about schools and students, such as grades which are classified as secondary data. Conclusion:The results show that thetransition affected the education managementsince it impactedthe organizing and communicating. Thenresults showed some factors,such as an earlier experienceplayed a role inadapting education management changessincea new concept of teaching developed withinthis transition with adapted teaching strategies,and students responded to that byimproved learning plans. Anothermain finding ineducation management aspects is the grading strategieswhereit was found that the criteria did not change,but exams got modified,leading to changesin thegradepatternsthat can be described as unnormal. All of that was concluded in a frameworkaccording toour findings and research work.
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Tchiche, Douae <1996>. "The consequences of COVID-19 on the rentier state economy: a case study on Saudi Arabia." Master's Degree Thesis, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10579/18969.
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Il lavoro di ricerca mira ad analizzare le implicazioni economiche e politiche sul mercato petrolifero del regno saudita, derivanti dalla riduzione del prezzo del petrolio a causa dello scoppio della pandemia COVID-19. In particolare, si indagherà la risposta della monarchia in relazione ai piani di sviluppo a lungo termine previsti da Vision 2030 e l'impatto che lo scoppio del virus ha avuto sull'attuazione di questi progetti e sulla situazione politica interna. Il regno sta vivendo un momento critico, in cui è necessaria una trasformazione strutturale nei settori economico, sociale e politico. Dopo le numerose crisi e boom vissuti dal regno a causa dell'elevata volatilità e delle influenze esterne sui mercati petroliferi, è chiaro che la dipendenza dal petrolio non può più essere la fonte principale di rendita dello Stato. Vision 2030 attuata dal principe ereditario Muhammad Bin Salman, vuole affrontare questi temi, preparandosi ad un processo di trasformazione di 15 anni, con l'obiettivo di diversificare l'economia e superare la dipendenza dal petrolio. Tuttavia, diffusione della pandemia Covid-19 è una minaccia per i piani di sviluppo dello regno. La caduta dei prezzi del petrolio e la crisi sanitaria, causata dal coronavirus, probabilmente ritarderanno molte delle misure del piano. Analizzeremo in questo studio l'impatto della pandemia del 2020 sull'economia attuale e le ripercussioni che avrà sul successo di Vision 2030.
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Hedberg, Nilsson Lovisa, and Dennis Nordholm. "Conforming to the new normal : a case study of leading virtual teams during the COVID-19 pandemic." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Institutionen för informatik, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-186993.
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In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, more companies are allowing their employees to work from home and consequently, impacts leadership. The purpose of this study is to investigate how managers in IT consultancies have experienced distance management during COVID-19 and what their key takeaways for the post-COVID-19 era are. The thesis has used a case study consisting of seven case companies, to answer the research question where the focus is on carefully selected managers as interview persons. Furthermore, with the help of a systematic literature review we have identified five main areas which are the basis for our theoretical framework. Throughout the study, the collected data is related to five main areas, which are: leadership, communication, trust, collaboration, and meetings. The key takeaways are the difficulties of leading a team over distance. Communication is more important than ever. How you best create a trustworthy workplace where the staff stands firm, trusts each other as well as maintain their cooperation at a distance are important and what approaches should be taken when it comes to virtual meetings. Lastly, this thesis contributes to the theoretical knowledge with the new framework and to the practical knowledge by providing guidelines for managers of virtual teams.
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Friborg, Nadja. "Securitizing COVID-19 : A case study of negotiated securitization between securitizing actor & the public in Norway." Thesis, Försvarshögskolan, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:fhs:diva-9915.
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This thesis analyzed the securitization of COVID-19 in Norway as a negotiation of meaning between the public and Norway’s prime minister. By employing framing analysis and a sociological approach to securitization, this thesis breaks with the binary view of ‘audience acceptance’ in securitization theory’s original framework. Instead, it argues for the relevance of understanding securitization in the context of COVID-19 as an intersubjective process between securitizing actor and audience. While scholars have tended to overlook the audience’s role in securitization processes, this thesis analyzed both the securitizing actor’s and the audience’s perspective. This made it possible to reveal competing views regarding threat perception and emergency measures. The thesis contributed to the theoretical debate on the audience by highlighting the special ingrained role the public has been assigned in this particular securitization context. The nuanced analysis of audience acceptance showed that despite a general resonance regarding the threat perception, it revealed important tensions regarding the measures and the audience’s participatory role in the process. This questions whether COVID-19 in Norway can be considered to have been ‘successfully securitized’.
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Gustavsson, Simon, and Simon Larsson. "Marketing Innovation for SMEs during COVID-19 Pandemic : A case study of the hospitality industry in Norrbotten." Thesis, Luleå tekniska universitet, Institutionen för ekonomi, teknik och samhälle, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:ltu:diva-79426.
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As a global disaster, the COVID-19 pandemic (coronavirus) has an impact on the whole world economy. The pandemic threatens the survival of small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) globally and nationally. It appears inevitable that this pandemic has created a difficult business environment for small and medium sized enterprises to operate in. The COVID-19 pandemic has caused a chain of events that have led to an economic crisis. The driving factor have been the Swedish government’s recommendations to the population to stay at home and exercise social distancing. This has led to a declining household consumption in Sweden and thus also reductions in production in the country. Thus, the purpose of this degree project was to examine how three small and medium sized enterprises businesses adapted their way of marketing in order to survive the economic crisis that came with the COVID-19 pandemic. The research has been conducted within the context of three small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) in the hospitality industry in Norrbotten. To gain deeper knowledge on how SMEs in Norrbotten changed their way of marketing during this economic crisis, a qualitative research approach was pursued. A multiple case study was administered against three contrasting organizations in Norrbotten to collect data in order to delve into the chosen subject more. The gathered data was collected through interviews. The findings of this study proves that the three small and medium sized enterprises were affected by the economic crisis that came with the coronavirus. Overall, the main findings shows that the three SMEs adapted and improved their marketing mix as a response to the crisis. The key factor in why the three companies had to improve their marketing mix was the change of the consumer buying behavior. The changed customer behavior was a result of the Swedish government and the Public Health Agency measures to prevent the spread of the virus: social distancing, traveling restrictions and closed borders.
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Broker-Bulling, Fie. "Analyzing the resilience of tourism stakeholders during the COVID-19 pandemic: A case study of Bend, Oregon." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för samhällsbyggnad och industriell teknik, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-420909.
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As the world continues to globalize, the need for sustainability is becoming increasingly evident. In the tourism industry, an industry that employs 1 out of 10 globally, this is especially true. This industry is composed of a complex web of systems that ebb and flow in unison. The ripple effect of a crisis in this industry can be far-reaching and can negatively impact all global tourism systems. For this reason, tourism stakeholders need to prioritize sustainability, which will strengthen their resilience and ensure that they are well equipped to deal with complex challenges. This paper examines the immediate impact of COVID-19 on tourism stakeholders in Bend, Oregon. Semi-structured interviews were used to explore this subject and shed light on how resilience and adaptive capacity helped specific stakeholders cope during this crisis. This research revealed that the COVID-19 crisis severely impacted all of the tourism stakeholders that were interviewed. Though all stakeholders were impacted, their ability to cope with, adapt to, and innovate during this crisis significantly varied. This research highlights the importance of prioritizing resilience within the tourism industry to ensure that tourism stakeholders will be able to cope with the complex challenges that they encounter as our world continues to change.
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Rajaguru, Shashini. "Forced and Unplanned Digital Transformation of Education in Sri Lanka during Covid-19 Crisis: A Case Study." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Informationssystem, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-445657.
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Digital transformation has been an important, popular and revolutionary topic for research fordecades. Constant and rapid updating digital technologies and tools have mainly influencedthe phenomenon of digital transformation to remain interesting and evolving whileemphasizing the significant importance of other concepts related to digital transformationsuch as challenges and opportunities. However, when compared with the otherindustries/areas, digital transformation of education, has been a slow process; especially inthe developing countries. When Covid-19 crisis hit the world, the importance ofdigitizing/digitalizing/digitally transforming businesses was highlighted more than ever andmany organizations and institutes had no other option than accepting digitalization; includingmajority of educational institutes around the world.This thesis aim to understand the challenges faced by a primary school located in a relativelyrural area in Sri Lanka, when implementing digitalization of education within the school forthe first time from 13th March 2020 till 17th August 2020, due to the impact of Covid-19 crisisinfluenced temporary closure of the school. To answer the research question of this study,data was collected qualitatively using semi-structured interviews from carefully chosenrespondents. According to the collected data, it was emphasized that the main challengesfaced by the school when digitalizing education involved: digital literacy, infrastructure,internet and other related services, traditional structure of education, and economy relatedissues. During the analysis of the case study built based on the empirical results, it isdiscussed how the identified challenges affects self-efficacy of users and how thesechallenges can be addressed in order to improve digitalization od education in Sri Lanka.When analysing results in compliance with the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM), it wasinteresting to see how Covid-19 pandemic has acted as a strong external variable to influencethe traditional structure of TAM and its‘ components, causing perceived usefulness oftechnology to act solely as the primary factor that motivated technology acceptance by usersin the study setting. The findings also leave it questionable whether if it is still required in thefuture to address the existing challenge of ‗resistance‘ as one of the most importantchallenges related to digital transformation. This study also discusses how Covid-19pandemic impacted on the pace of digital transformation globally that it has become asubstantial experience to motivate digitalization of education in Sri Lanka and otherdeveloping countries.4The study suggests more extensive investigation on unheard digitalization stories in thedeveloping world and highlights the importance of contributing more varied case studies toliterature. This thesis also implies the relevant authorities of Sri Lanka to consider thefindings provided in this research, when planning the digital roadmap for the country‘seducation system and when restructuring the education system to improve the standard ofeducation towards the development of country. Key Words: Digital Transformation, Impact of Covid-19, Digital TransformationChallenges, Developing Countries, Education, Sri Lanka, Digitalization of Education,Technology Acceptance Model
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Tydesjö, Amanda. "Covid-19 and Ukrainian seasonal migrant workers in Poland : A case study of livelihoods and coping strategies." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för samhällsstudier (SS), 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-104804.
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The Covid-19 pandemic that erupted in 2020 has impacted most livelihoods and increased poverty levels worldwide. This thesis considers the impact which the Corona pandemic has had on Ukrainian seasonal migrant workers’ livelihoods in Poland. The societal travel restrictions’ short-term effects on the seasonal livelihoods are investigated along with the subsequent short-term coping strategies used by the seasonal migrant workers. The study draws on primary data from 10 semi-structured, digital interviews conducted with Ukrainian seasonal migrant workers from different sectors who worked in Poland during the pandemic period. Through the Sustainable Livelihood Framework, the cases were individually considered whilst also comparing within the sample groups from the sectors agriculture, construction, domestic services, culinary, and warehouse work. The findings of the study show that the seasonal migration livelihood strategy was resilient, lowered vulnerability, and allowed for sustainable livelihood outcomes despite the Corona pandemic. Travel restrictions and other institutional processes enabled or disabled the seasonal workers. Despite the Corona pandemic, the seasonal migration livelihood strategy was used as a short-, medium- and long-term strategy to alleviate poverty. The study increases the multidimensional understanding of the pandemic effects on Ukrainian seasonal workers in Poland. Therefore, this research provides an understanding of poverty alleviation, seasonal migration livelihood strategies, and resilience in a pandemic context.
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Schwarz, Patrick. "Prediction with Penalized Logistic Regression : An Application on COVID-19 Patient Gender based on Case Series Data." Thesis, Karlstads universitet, Handelshögskolan (from 2013), 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-85642.
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The aim of the study was to evaluate dierent types of logistic regression to find the optimal model to predict the gender of hospitalized COVID-19 patients. The models were based on COVID-19 case series data from Pakistan using a set of 18 explanatory variables out of which patient age and BMI were numerical and the rest were categorical variables, expressing symptoms and previous health issues. Compared were a logistic regression using all variables, a logistic regression that used stepwise variable selection with 4 explanatory variables, a logistic Ridge regression model, a logistic Lasso regression model and a logistic Elastic Net regression model. Based on several metrics assessing the goodness of fit of the models and the evaluation of predictive power using the area under the ROC curve the Elastic Net that was only using the Lasso penalty had the best result and was able to predict 82.5% of the test cases correctly.
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Femio, Giorgia <1995>. "Business model evolution in the Food&Beverage Industry during Covid-19 A multiple case study analysis." Master's Degree Thesis, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10579/20008.
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The purpose of this research paper is to analyse, with a backward analysis perspective integration, the impacted present and future scenarios of economic actors operating in Food and Beverage sector in the challenging pandemic context.
The adopted approach enables the integration of a systemic literature review with a framework of emerging trends in terms of adaptation of business models in response to changes, strengthening the contemporary view about the way of contributing to well-being in times of social and economic upheaval.
This research thesis investigates how businesses in agri-food industry have been coping with the disruptions caused by the pandemic and it is enriched by a poll of multiple case studies among a sample of seven respondents from Italian corporations of the sector. The study of interviews aims to give insights into innovation and competition drivers the sector has focused on and the technologies selected as a means to react to the global health and economic crisis.
From findings, it emerges firms must balance risks and rewards and respond to uncertainty with flexibility and high resiliency: digitalization acceleration and proximity as well as consumer centrism are key priorities.
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Benjamin, Amante Brittany, Alejandra Hernandez, Emily Lin, Amanda D. Martin, and Chao Zhao. "Exploring the Efficacy of the Helen B. Landgarten Art Therapy Clinic’s Transition to Telehealth During COVID-19." Digital Commons at Loyola Marymount University and Loyola Law School, 2021. https://digitalcommons.lmu.edu/etd/955.
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This research qualitatively explores the impacts of the Helen B. Landgarten Art therapy Clinic’s transition to art therapy telehealth services during the COVID-19 pandemic. The purpose of this research was to explore the efficacy of interventions and the clinical themes that emerged as a result of telehealth art therapy services delivered to marginalized communities through the Helen B. Landgarten Art Therapy Clinic. Data that was collected includes anonymous surveys from administrators, teachers, and caregivers of those receiving services and facilitators of services, semi-structured interviews with administrators, teachers, and caregivers of those receiving services, as well as a focus group with facilitators of services. Through the analysis of data several findings suggest that art therapy telehealth can provide a safe space for engagement in mental health and be more accessible to marginalized communities. These findings potentially open new doors for further inquiry into art therapy telehealth.
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Hieke, Sophie, and Christian Schmidkonz. "Jump starting e-learning: The impact of COVID-19 on perceived learning success: A real-time case study." TUDpress, 2020. https://tud.qucosa.de/id/qucosa%3A74151.
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The global upheaval caused by COVID-19 in 2020 has by many been considered as the biggest accelerator for digitalization in various areas, and Higher Education Institutions (HEI) are no exception to this. Universities had to abruptly shift to digital formats also termed e-learning. Some universities have been better prepared for online teaching than others, but for most within the educational community it has been a new experience to study or teach most if not all courses online without any further physical touch points. Due to the semester schedule, lecturers and students at Munich Business School had to adapt during an on-going semester and switch their way of teaching and learning more or less overnight, from offline teaching only to online teaching only. This situation has offered a unique opportunity to add to the literature on effective learning as well as e-learning by comparing exclusively offline and online learning environments across the same student population and measuring their impact on perceived learning success. This unique situation has further allowed for the development of a new model to explain possible drivers of perceived learning success under such circumstances. While an unexpected upheaval like COVID-19 may not happen in this exact same scenario again, new pandemics and global crises can easily impact future teaching environments in a similar manner, at least with regards to the limited time available to make such a switch. Consequently, the model presented here encourages further research and, if sufficiently validated in future research, has the power to provide insights into how to design an effective learning environment in HEI.
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Wehinger, Krafft Richard. "Cholera in Yemen post COVID-19 : A Case Study on the Challenges Humanitarian organizations Face in Ending Cholera." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Statsvetenskapliga institutionen, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-432710.
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Lampinen, Frida. "Challenging the authoritarian advantage in crisis management: a case study of the outbreak of COVID-19 in China." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Statsvetenskapliga institutionen, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-431700.
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2020 has been a year thoroughly marked by the global COVID-19 pandemic, and the ways in which different governments have sought to manage the crisis have sparked controversy. This paper aims to challenge and ultimately falsify the theory of “authoritarian advantage” in crisis management using a single-case study design of most-likely logic. This is done by performing a case study of the initial outbreak of COVID-19 in China based on the argument that contrary to suggestions made by previous research, the measures undertaken by the Chinese regime in the initial phase of the crisis do not exhibit the advantages expected of an authoritarian political system. The study goes on to reconstruct the chain of events during the initial response and analyzes whether the response unfolds as expected by set theoretical criteria of benefiting from China’s institutional preconditions. The analysis finds that the theory of “authoritarian advantage” loses credibility in this case, and further allows for the conclusion that any “advantages” of the regime are largely offset by critical “disadvantages”. This leads to a discussion opening up for the possibility that there is no single political system that is best suited for crisis management, as different systems enjoy different strengths as well as weaknesses. Understanding the circumstances of this is also recommended as a field of future research.
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Demuro, Cristina. "DESIGN THINKING AND SUSTAINABLE INNOVATION: A CASE STUDY ON THE HUSKY SLEDGING BUSINESS DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Industriell teknik, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-444970.
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Mushers, sledges, and husky teams run through Lapland for approximately 5000 years already to move goods, travel, and even military purposes. Nowadays, the mushing tradition has entered the local culture and evolved into a professional vocation for numerous entrepreneurs. Husky sledging companies of different sizes and business cultures meet the increasing touristic demand for sledging rides and safaris in the Finnish wilderness. Husky tours constitute a unique selling point for lots of Arctic destinations because part of the “to-do list” of every tourist exploring the extreme North. Despite the growing interests shown by visitors, the academic world has almost never focused any attention or resources to research the husky sledging industry. Since the covid-19 spread also in Lapland, the entire husky sledging business is condemned to face severe consequences and deal with wicked problems. This thesis aims to fill the research gap on the husky safari business and to offer husky tour companies support in mitigating the economic impacts caused by the pandemic outbreak. The investigation is based on the participatory action research realised in collaboration with Bearhill Husky, a dog sledging company operating in Rovaniemi. Design Thinking has been applied as a research methodology to develop sustainable solutions that could help the company survive the crisis. The aim is to prove that, under certain conditions, Design Thinking can succeed in this intent and to inspire other kennels to apply this methodology for developing resilience and sustainable innovation. This research looks at what has been destroyed and sees room for growth and progress and teaches that sometimes the problem is our approach towards it.
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Arnoldsson, Josefin, and Hanna Malak. "Managing from the comfort of your own home – a dream come true or an unproductive nightmare? : A single case study exploring how managers’ perceived team productivity has changed during COVID-19." Thesis, Jönköping University, Internationella Handelshögskolan, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-52888.
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This study explores how managers perceive the change in their teams’ productivity, as a result of moving from an office-based workspace to a virtual workspace. In the circumstances of the global COVID-19 pandemic, and its resulting restrictions and recommendations, there has been a mass relocation to working virtually from home. To establish if there has been any perceived change in employee productivity, several different factors such as communication, team unity, and trust were compared during two different time-points, before the start of the pandemic and 16 months into the pandemic. This is a hybrid study that makes use of both quantitative and qualitative properties, by first establishing a base of data through a survey, the initial observations were then explored further and to greater insight by interviewing a sample of the managers who took part in the survey. The findings of the study suggest that the pandemic reflects an overall negative outcome on team productivity as a result of working virtually. The most affected team factors include communication, conflict resolution, and planning. There are however other effects to factors such as team unity and trust that may bear relational consequences. Ultimately, the findings of the current study indicate a generally negative effect on team productivity.
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Ciampoli, Lorenzo. "La gestione della crisi pandemica da parte delle PMI: analisi su casi italiani." Master's thesis, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, 2021. http://amslaurea.unibo.it/24643/.
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La pandemia da covid-19 rappresenta una dei momenti più critici del ventunesimo secolo. Oltre a mietere moltissime vittime in tutto il mondo, ha paralizzato e continua a rallentare le principali economie del pianeta, con impatti importanti sulle relative catene di fornitura. Nel tempo queste ultime hanno infatti raggiunto un grado di complessità e di interconnessione molto elevato e questo non ha fatto che amplificare il problema rendendo le filiere ancora più fragili. La seguente tesi ha pertanto l’obiettivo di indagare l’ambito supply chain management nel contesto della crisi pandemica. A questo scopo la tesi presenta tre sezioni. La prima parte fornisce una panoramica di alcuni settori rappresentativi. Si prosegue nella seconda con una trattazione del risk management, disciplina centrale in questa dimensione di elevata incertezza. A questa sezione teorica segue infine l’analisi di tre casi studio scelti fra le PMI italiane che rappresenta il fulcro dell’elaborato.
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Blomkvist, Mattias, and Anton Eling. "Digital Maturity and Organizational Resilience during Crisis : An Exploratory Single Case Study within B2B Sales Interactions during COVID-19." Thesis, Luleå tekniska universitet, Institutionen för ekonomi, teknik och samhälle, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:ltu:diva-84920.
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Over the past decade, digitalization has played an increasingly important and prominent role in the competitiveness of businesses. The pace of digitalization is not slowing down and has only intensified rapidly over recent years. Because of this, businesses that invest a significant amount of resources toward digitalization could increase and strengthen their competitive advantage and develop their digital maturity, which can be described as the technological functions and visions available for a firm. In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, the pace of digitalization was intensified further, and many businesses were forced to adapt their business activities through digital channels to stay operational. Furthermore, a specific field affected by the governmental restrictions was B2B sales interactions, which has caused several problems for firms that do not have sufficient technological functions to adapt to digital channels, the digital capabilities can be described as sufficient. To counteract the pandemic effects, organizational resilience is an aspect that is activated to aid companies in parrying the effects of the sudden shock, in this case, caused by COVID-19 and can be described as the resources made available by management to respond and adapt to unexpected events. Hence, the purpose of this study is to investigate how sales interactions were impacted, by investigating the level of digital maturity and organizational resilience of one specific company, during the COVID19 pandemic. This was conducted through an exploratory single case study of a global biomaterials company where digital maturity was measured through a survey followed by an in-depth interview to assess the company’s organizational resilience.The findings suggest a clear link between the digital maturity level of a firm and how well it can be utilized in organizational resilience efforts when re-shaping the business landscape. Furthermore, the study highlights that digitalization is becoming a prominent factor in the way businesses and sales are conducted and even more in the times of crisis, thus, highlighting the importance of digital maturity. Based on the insights gained from the in-depth interview, a conceptual framework called digital activation of resilience within sales interactions was constructed. This framework highlights what was discovered in this single case to be the main influences on sales interactions and how digital maturity aids the activation of resilience.Under det senaste årtiondet har digitalisering fått en allt mer betydande roll inom företagande för att behålla konkurrensfördelar där takten av digital utveckling har accelererat frekvent. Detta har lett till att företag har investerat signifikanta summor i digitala hjälpmedel för att förbättra sina konkurrensfördelar och öka sin digitala mognad, där den digitala mognaden beskrivs som de tekniska resurser och vision som är tillgängligt för företaget. Till följd av pandemin fick intensiteten av digitalisering en massiv ökning då många företag tvingats att ställa om sin verksamhet och kommunikation till digitala kanaler. Ett affärsområde som drabbats hårt var försäljningsaspekten mellan företag (B2B) som till följd av regeringens direktiv tvingats ställa om sitt sätt att interagera med sina kunder. Företag som inte hade en väl utvecklad digitaliserad verksamhet drabbades hårt av detta. För att kunna hantera denna externa chock mot sin verksamhet krävs organisatorisk motståndskraft, som kan beskrivas som de resurser som finns tillgängliga för att hantera oförutsedda kriser och händelser som består av åtgärder som kan parera effekterna av kriser som COVID-19. Denna fallstudie var en undersökande studie där, en global koncern inom produkter och biomassa skulle generera svaren som behövdes för att mäta digital mognad och organisatorisk motståndskraft. Den digitala mognaden av företaget togs fram med hjälp av en enkät och svaren angående deras organisatoriska motståndskraft genererades med hjälp av en personlig intervju. Syftet med denna studie är därför att undersöka hur sälj interaktioner har förändrats baserat på grad av digital mognad och organisatorisk motståndskraft under pandemin. Resultatet av denna studie hänvisar till ett samband mellan nivån av digital mognad hos ett företag och hur väl denna mognad kan komma till nytta vid aktioner via organisatorisk motståndskraft när det kommer till utformandet av affärs interaktioner. Vidare så bidrar studien till att visa hur digitalisering är på väg att bli en vital faktor i genomförandet av affärer och sälj interaktioner i framtiden och därav framhäver vikten av att besitta god digital mognad. Baserat på insikten som uppkom från den djupgående intervjun så skapades en modell som lyfter fram de beståndsdelar av modellerna som påvisats ha en påverkan på sälj interaktioner och hur digital mognad stödjer den organisatoriska motståndskraften
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Lundell, Elvira, and Zsófia Varga. "Marketing Innovation During a Crisis : A case study on the responses of Swedish SMEs to the COVID-19 pandemic." Thesis, Jönköping University, IHH, Företagsekonomi, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-52689.
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Background: The economic crisis derived from the COVID-19 pandemic has an impact on the global economy and Swedish small and medium-sized enterprises are challenged to adapt their practices to the new consumer buying behaviour. As a response to economic crises, where consumer buying behaviour changes, companies are forced to innovate their marketing methods. Purpose: The purpose of this thesis is to investigate how Swedish SMEs manage the economic crisis derived from the COVID-19 pandemic through the relatively unexplored relationship between crisis management and marketing innovation. Method: This research is an exploratory qualitative study focusing on Swedish small and medium-sized enterprises where semi-structured interviews were held with seven participants who were marketing responsible. A thematic analysis was applied to analyse the empirical data. Conclusion: The empirical findings and the analysis suggest three main areas when answering the research question. 1) Marketing innovation improved the crisis management practice among the interviewed enterprises. 2) Marketing innovation is a common crisis management tool among the respondents of this study, and one reason why is because of the high capacity to innovate of the interviewees. 3) A new type of crisis management is arising because of the technological advancements and business climate.
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Mezones-Holguin, Edward, Ali Al-kassab-Córdova, Jorge L. Maguiña, and Alfonso J. Rodriguez-Morales. "Vaccination coverage and preventable diseases in Peru: Reflections on the first diphtheria case in two decades during the midst of COVID-19 pandemic." Elsevier Inc, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10757/655819.
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Maurer, Leonie, and Frederik Nagel. "The Support of Incubator and Accelerator Programs in the Entrepreneurial Ecosystem with COVID-19 : A Collective Case Study for Germany." Thesis, KTH, Industriell ekonomi och organisation (Inst.), 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-296611.
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The aim of this thesis paper is to analyse the support of incubator and accelerator programs inthe German entrepreneurial ecosystem with the impact of COVID-19. Incubator and accelerator programs have been established across multiple innovation hubs worldwide over the last decade. They have become a substantial support system for entrepreneurship providing help for young companies to innovate. The benefits offered usually include access to capital, network, mentorship and office space in exchange for equity or to simply foster innovation. With a lot of uncertainties deriving from the current pandemic, entrepreneurship has an increasingly relevant role to ensure a flourishing economy in the future. As the world is adapting to new circumstances, incubators and accelerators need to reevaluate their support to startups as well. The literature review consists of relevant literature by elaborating on the existing entrepreneurial ecosystem theories. It further discusses incubators and accelerators and the German entrepreneurial market before introducing the theoretical framework for the paper. As part of the research, this thesis uses a collective case study method by conducting interviews with startup founders and employees of incubator and accelerator programs in Germany. The qualitative data collection will undergo a deductive reasoning approach to analyse the research phenomenon and to contribute to the field of entrepreneurship. After introducing each company from the collective case study, the empirical findings systematically lay out the data from the interviews by separating the data into a section for incubators and accelerators and a section for startups. The data highlights relevant changes regarding the support of the programs with and without the impact of COVID-19. The discussion chapter points out the findings by comparing the data with the literature and the theoretical framework. The findings are broken down into subsections that point out the importance of the support programs as well as the proposed changes in the offerings. Concluded, changes can be made in the area of mentorships and coachings as there is a need for more individuality. Also regular feedback cycles, a higher capital support and the change to a hybrid model with a remote and on-site structure as well as the use of software to stay connected are possibilities for accelerators and incubators to help the startups.Syftet med denna uppsats är att analysera stödet av inkubator och accelerationsprogram i det tyska enterepenörella ekosystemet och hur det påverkats av COVID-19. Inkubator och acceleratorprogrammen har etablerats under olika innovationscenter över hela världen det senaste decenniet. De har blivit ett betydande stödsystem för entrepenörskap som ska ge stöttning åt nystartade företag för att hjälpa dom bli innovativa. Förmånerna är tillgång till kapital, nätverk, mentorsskap och lokaler, detta sker i utbyte mot delägarskap eller att bidra till att främja innovation. Med osäkerheten orsakat av den nuvarande pandemin, har entrepenörskap en mycket viktig roll för att säkerställa en uppåtgående ekonomi i framtiden. Då världen anpassar sig till nya omständigheter, behöver inkubationer och accelerationer se över stödet till startup företag. Litteraturöversikten innehåller relevant litteratur som utarbetarde redan existerande teorier inom det entrepenörella ekosystemet. Vidare diskuteras inkubatorer och accelerationer och den tyska entrepönerella marknaden, följt av introduktionen av det teoretiska ramverket för uppsatsen. Som en del av forskningen används en kollektivtfallstudie metod där det genomförts intervjuer med start up grundare och anställda på inkubator och accelerator program i Tyskland. Den kvalitativa inhämtningen av data genomgår ett slutligt resonemang för att analysera forskningsfenomenet och bidra till forskningsområdet entrepenörskap. Efter att ha introducerat varje företag för den utvalda fallstudien, visas datasystematisk med de empiriska resultaten från intervjuerna. Detta görs igenom att separera data i två sektioner. En för inkubatorer och accelationer, och en sektion för start ups. Uppgifterna belyser relevanta förändringar när det gäller stödet till programmen med och utan inverkan av COVID-19. I diskussionskapitlet pekas resultaten ut genom att uppgifterna jämförs medlitteraturen och den teoretiska ramen. Resultaten delas upp i under avsnitt som pekar ut stödprogrammens betydelse samt de föreslagna förändringarna i utbudet. Slutsatsen är att förändringar kan göras inom området mentorskap och coachning eftersom det finns ett behov av mer individualitet. Regelbundna feedbackcykler, ett högre kapitalstöd och en övergång tillen hybridmodell med en struktur på distans och på plats samt användning av programvara föratt hålla kontakten är möjligheter för acceleratorer och inkubatorer att hjälpa nystartade företag.
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Holesova, Gabriela. "The role of digital media in the dissemination of Covid-19 conspiracy theories: The case of Czech conspiracy theory believers." Thesis, Malmö universitet, Institutionen för konst, kultur och kommunikation (K3), 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-44407.
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The spread of the Covid-19 pandemic has been since its early beginnings accompanied by the spread of the so called 'infodemic' of misinformation and conspiracy theories about the virus in the media. This infodemic swiftly started to present a matter of significant concern especially in the dynamic landscape of digital media which due to an ease of sharing and content contribution allowed for Covid-19 conspiracy theories to continue to gain momentum. Because of the severe implications that the potential ill-informed actions of conspiracy theory believers could have on the public health, it is necessary to gain a better understanding of the conspiracy theory believers and the way that they spread Covid-19 conspiracy theories. With this in mind, this thesis through the use of qualitative interviews probed into the worldviews of Covid-19 conspiracy theory believers in the Czech Republic. The analytical scrutiny of the interviews through the lens of the theories of network society, context collapse and echo chambers provided important insights into how Czech Covid-19 conspiracy theory believers use digital media in order to learn about and disseminate Covid-19 conspiracy theories. Additionally, this thesis provides an understanding of how the way the conspiracy theory believers navigate context collapse on Facebook drives them to seek echo chambers on e-mail which strengthen their beliefs in Covid-19 conspiracy theories. Moreover, my thesis also sheds light onto how the echo chambers are instrumental in the individuals' distrust in traditional media.
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SIETSES, SAMANTHA, and FERIDE DIKME. "Client Relations on the Digital Workplace : A case study on how the consultant-client relationship is affected by remote work during Covid-19." Thesis, KTH, Skolan för industriell teknik och management (ITM), 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-300079.
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During the Covid-19 pandemic, employees all over the world were forced to work from home, meaning that consultants no longer could work physically present with their clients. As the consultant-client relationship is incredibly important for management consulting firms, it is interesting to investigate how these relationships have been impacted by the change and what the implications are for collaboration and performance. A qualitative method was used, where the authors conducted interviews with management consultants at an international management consulting firm in Stockholm, Sweden. The study found that remote working with already existing clients was functioning well. However, collaboration with new relations proved to be more challenging, which was mainly perceived to depend on the difficulty to create a personal trust and connection remotely, since digital communication made it difficult to understand the client’s needs. The digital way of working also revealed challenges with creativity, invisibility, onboarding, knowledge development and sales. Thus, the study concluded that collaborations and relationships will benefit greatly from a physical meeting early on. Nevertheless, the most beneficial working method would be to continuously balance the advantages of both remote and office working.Under Covid-19-pandemin tvingades anställda över hela världen att arbeta hemifrån, vilket innebar att konsulter inte längre kunde arbeta på plats hos sina kunder. Då kundrelationer är extremt viktiga för konsultföretag är det intressant att undersöka hur dessa relationer har påverkats av distansarbetet och vilka konsekvenser det har fört med sig för samarbetet och arbetskvalitet. För att undersöka detta användes en kvalitativ metod där författarna genomförde intervjuer med managementkonsulter på ett internationellt konsultföretag i Stockholm, Sverige. Studien visade att distansarbete med redan existerande kunder i allmänhet fungerade bra. Däremot visade sig samarbetet med nya kontakter vara mer utmanande. Detta ansågs främst bero på svårigheten att skapa ett personligt förtroende och en personlig relation på distans, då digital kommunikation försvårade möjligheterna att förstå sig på kunden och dess behov. Det digitala arbetssättet skapade också nya utmaningar vad gäller kreativitet, osynlighet, integrering av nyanställda, kunskapsutveckling samt försäljning. Slutligen, studien visade att samarbeten och relationer skulle främjas av att parterna träffas fysiskt i ett tidigt skede av projektet. Dock skulle den mest fördelaktiga arbetsmetoden vara att framöver balansera fördelarna av både distans- och kontorsarbete.
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Scarciglia, Matteo <1993>. "Operational risk management applied to the COVID-19 pandemic: the impact on the automotive sector and the KIA Motors Europe case." Master's Degree Thesis, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10579/18769.
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Covid-19 is one of the major plagues the world’s population has ever been confronted with and the purpose of this research will be to analyze the devastating economic impact of this pandemic through an operational risk management point of view.
Small firms couldn’t cope with the effects of the pandemic and SMEs in general still are trying to find a way to save the business after severe losses and forced closures.
Multinational companies, on the other hand, have to respond to this new crisis in a different and maybe more complex way. The strategies, both short and long term oriented, that companies and industries will follow in order to recoup, will have a huge impact on the national and global economies and also will define the future of the various sectors.
Risk management comes back to have one of the most important roles in the different business environments, both in terms of promptness of the response and effectiveness of the strategies put in motion.
After approaching the topic step by step, this analysis will highlight the impacts on the different industries, trying to give a panoramic of the main hit ones.
One of the most hit industries was the automotive. This sector is characterized by continues changes and also has been facing a remarkable shrinking in the past years. Covid-19 put the ultimate challenge, forcing the production sites to shut down and the businesses to quicken up their decision-making processes.
Kia Motors Europe will be taken as study case to understand the critical bullet points of how a company should face the problem, analyse the risks and take decisions to be able to keep the business under control. The factors involved in this process are several and there is of course no ex-ante proper way to confront with a crisis like the one created by the coronavirus. Furthermore, to go deeper in the firm’s mentality, some interviews to Kia’s managers will be presented and the key points highlighted.
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Scarciglia, Matteo <1993>. "Operational risk management applied to the COVID-19 pandemic: the impact on the automotive sector and the KIA Motors Europe case." Master's Degree Thesis, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10579/18770.
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Covid-19 is one of the major plagues the world’s population has ever been confronted with and the purpose of this research will be to analyze the devastating economic impact of this pandemic through an operational risk management point of view.
Small firms couldn’t cope with the effects of the pandemic and SMEs in general still are trying to find a way to save the business after severe losses and forced closures.
Multinational companies, on the other hand, have to respond to this new crisis in a different and maybe more complex way. The strategies, both short and long term oriented, that companies and industries will follow in order to recoup, will have a huge impact on the national and global economies and also will define the future of the various sectors.
Risk management comes back to have one of the most important roles in the different business environments, both in terms of promptness of the response and effectiveness of the strategies put in motion.
After approaching the topic step by step, this analysis will highlight the impacts on the different industries, trying to give a panoramic of the main hit ones.
One of the most hit industries was the automotive. This sector is characterized by continues changes and also has been facing a remarkable shrinking in the past years. Covid-19 put the ultimate challenge, forcing the production sites to shut down and the businesses to quicken up their decision-making processes.
Kia Motors Europe will be taken as study case to understand the critical bullet points of how a company should face the problem, analyse the risks and take decisions to be able to keep the business under control. The factors involved in this process are several and there is of course no ex-ante proper way to confront with a crisis like the one created by the coronavirus. Furthermore, to go deeper in the firm’s mentality, some interviews to Kia’s managers will be presented and the key points highlighted.
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Nguyen, Kieu Vi <1991>. "CRISIS OF PANDEMIC IN TOURISM INDUSTRY AND THEIR EFFECTS ON COGNITION OF TRAVELERS IN VIETNAM: A CASE STUDY OF COVID-19." Master's Degree Thesis, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10579/19468.
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Nowadays, tourism is one of the most economically important industries and also one of the most vulnerable to crises as Pandemic. This thesis tends to investigate cognition and behavior change of travelers caused by coronavirus 2020
This research tries to figure out the cognition of Travel after coronavirus Pandemic Crisis.
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Ingemarsson, Johanna. "EFL Teachers’ Experiences Teaching Online using ICT : A Case Study of the Transition from Classroom Teaching to Online Teaching during the COVID-19 Pandemic." Thesis, Karlstads universitet, Institutionen för språk, litteratur och interkultur (from 2013), 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-84446.
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The aim of this research project was to contribute to the knowledge about the teaching practices taking place during the COVID-19 pandemic, by investigating the use of information and communication technology (ICT) in online teaching by five EFL (English as a foreign language) teachers and their experiences of transforming from classroom teaching to online teaching during the pandemic. Furthermore, this study has also investigated how these teachers believe online teaching has affected their students’ English learning. The data was collected by using semi-structured interviews. The data were later analyzed by thematic analyses, and divided into themes, sub-themes and codes. It was concluded that teachers had both positive and negative experiences from teaching online. The fact that the education could be continued from home and that the teachers had improved their teaching practices was frequently expressed in positive opinions. However, the results from the study also revealed that the teachers had mostly negative experiences in terms of the actual process of teaching online, personal feelings, and the effects on students’ English learning. Issues such as technical difficulties, teaching online being time consuming and inhibited interactions are among the negative experiences regarding online teaching. In addition, suggestions have been made on how to improve distance education and how teaching online in the future requires teachers to be educated in how to implement effective ICT tools in their online teaching.Syftet med denna studie har varit att bidra till kunskap om den undervisning som har skett under COVID-19 pandemin, genom att undersöka användningen av IKT (informations och kommunikations teknik) i den onlineundervisning som bedrivits av fem EFL-lärare (English as a Foreign Language) och deras erfarenheter av övergången från klassrumsundervisning till onlineundervisning. Vidare har denna studie även undersökt hur dessa lärare tror att onlineundervisningen har påverkat elevernas lärande i ämnet engelska. Datan samlades in med hjälp av semistrukturerade intervjuer. Lärarnas svar analyserades senare med hjälp av tematiska analyser och delades in i teman, undertema och koder. Resultatet visade att lärarna hade både positiva och negativa erfarenheter av att undervisa online. Det faktum att eleverna kunde fortsätta sin utbildning hemifrån och att lärarna hade förbättrat sin egen undervisning uttryckets ofta i positiva åsikter. Resultat från studien visade däremot att lärarna hade mest negativa erfarenheter när det gällde den faktiska processen av att undervisa online, personliga känslor, och effekterna onlineundervisning har haft på elevernas lärande i ämnet engelska. Problematik så som tekniska svårigheter, att det var tidskrävande och att interaktionen mellan lärare och elever hämmades tillhör några av de negativa erfarenheter av onlineundervisning som lärarna vittnade om. Denna studie presenterar förslag på hur man kan förbättra distansutbildning och hur fortsatt undervisning online kräver att lärare utbildas i hur man implementerar effektiva IKT-verktyg i sin onlineundervisning.
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Svensson, David. "Motivation på distans : En kvalitativ undersökning av individers uppfattningar om motivation i distansarbete." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Sociologiska institutionen, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-187874.
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During a time of physical restrictions, a lot of people have been forced to work from home, also known as teleworking. A Sifo survey conducted in 2020 shows that 96% of Sweden’s teleworkers want to continue working from home, even after the Covid-19 pandemic. Therefore, understanding how their motivation has been affected by teleworking is important to employers and managers that will have to organize a working environment to foster motivation among their employees. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to investigate how individuals from the same work group, after the first year of the pandemic, perceive that their motivation has been affected by teleworking. The research questions are: “In what way has teleworking affected individuals’ motivation?” and “Which factors should be taken into consideration when continuing teleworking after the pandemic?”. Six semi-structured interviews were conducted, and the results show that the majority of the informants’ motivation had not been affected by teleworking, although there were more advantages than disadvantages to teleworking; This was due to the great significance of the disadvantage of not being able to meet your colleagues in real life. For the future after the pandemic, a combination of working partly from home and partly from the office was preferred, as a way to receive all the advantages of teleworking, while also satisfying their social needs.
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Badiale, Maria Eugenia. "The dynamics of communication in global virtual software development teams : A case study in the agile context during the Covid-19 pandemic." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Företagsekonomiska institutionen, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-413832.
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The increase of globalization of business led to the creation of global virtual software development teams in which communication plays an important role. The lack of recent studies raises the need to investigate communication in the context of agile and the current Covid-19 pandemic. This study identifies in literature three factors present in global virtual software development teams: technology, culture, and trust. It aims to explore how they influence internal communication. A qualitative method is conducted on a case study by combining data collected from semi-structured interviews and observations. The case study is a global virtual software development team which implemented the agile Scrum methodology. The findings provide a deep understanding of the positive and negative influences of the factors on communication, including their interrelations and context. Some of the main findings are: (I) the best set up for collaboration among global team members is the combination of synchronous and asynchronous communication through technological tools, (II) cultural diversity leads to differences in the ways members communicate, (III) trust is the precondition of working collaboratively and communicating effectively, (IV) global team members need to occasionally have in-person interactions to nurture their interpersonal relations, (V) the agile Scrum methodology influences internal communication positively, (VI) each communication factor is influenced by time; thus, the theoretical framework developed for this study is updated with this addition, (VII) the Covid- 19 pandemic affects communication to a certain extent.
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Linda, Onoh, and Patricia Schwarzbach. "A cross-case analysis of Swedish companies to investigate adaptations of the marketing mix to retain customers as a reaction to COVID-19." Thesis, Högskolan i Halmstad, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-44483.
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Holthaus, Annika. "The edible city: A concept for the sustainable and resilient city during the COVID-19 pandemic? : A case study of Andernach and Todmorden." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Kulturgeografiska institutionen, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-193843.
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The COVID-19 pandemic exposed the vulnerability of cities and set a new focus on planning sustainable and resilient cities. This thesis aims to assess the edible city, where edible plants are grown in public spaces, in terms of sustainability and resilience during the COVID-19 pandemic and evaluate its contribution to urban sustainability and resilience. Further, it explores the implications for planning an edible city. As part of this case study, 10 semi-structured interviews were conducted in two edible cities: Edible City Andernach, Germany and Incredible Edible Todmorden, England. The results of this study demonstrate that both edible cities contribute to sustainability, but each is skewed towards one sustainability dimension. Concerning resilience, the study illustrates that both cases are able to withstand the pandemic impacts and adapt particularly in their focus sustainability dimension. However, general resilience is negatively impacted by a stance of waiting-it-out. For planning an edible city, a combination of a top-down and bottom-up approach is recommended. In conclusion, this thesis shows that the edible city contributes to urban sustainability and resilience through the continuing provision of ecosystem services and co-benefits during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Pardos, I. Aybar Daniel. "The influence of COVID-19 on the trajectory of tourism businesses with respect to climate change mitigation : Case study: Northern Dalarna region, Sweden." Thesis, Högskolan Dalarna, Institutionen för kultur och samhälle, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:du-37711.
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This research study is based on the way COVID-19 has affected the tourism businessesof the northern Dalarna region, Sweden. Moreover, how they responded to the crisis andif this response involved reconsidering their way of selling their touristic products. WithCOVID-19 effectively suspending the operations of the tourism sector such as air travel,the positive implications for climate change mitigation have been noted. This led toseveral speculations by researchers about the tourism industry taking this moment toreconsider their way of operating. However, these speculated decisions the tourismindustry will take amidst COVID-19 remain unproven. Therefore, this study aims todetermine how COVID-19 has affected the tourism companies of Northern Dalarna.Moreover, how these effects relate to conscious responses regarding climate changemitigation. Ultimately, this study intends to identify the relationship between the impactsof the present crisis COVID-19 and the future crisis that is climate change through thelens of the interviewed businesses in Northern Dalarna that effectively represent thetourism industry.Semi-structured interviews were employed as the main method for data collection. Seveninterviews of a diverse range of tourism businesses were conducted. The findingsacquired from the interviews show how these businesses have successfully overcome theeffects of COVID-19 while remaining open. The study concludes with very diverseperceptions of climate change from the companies. Moreover, how these perceptionshave evolved since the onset of COVID-19. Nevertheless, these companies had acommon point where independently of their opinion about climate change, all of themtook some actions to mitigate it. It was found that, for the case of Dalarna, Sweden,COVID-19 did not result in a moment for tourism companies to transform theirbusinesses to focus more on climate change mitigation. Business proceeded as usual interms of climate change mitigation and in the presence of COVID-19.There are several hypothetical studies on this topic, however, very few empirical studieswere found. This research contributes by showing how COVID-19 was not a time toconsider climate change mitigation according to the interviewed companies of NorthernDalarna, Sweden but merely a moment for minor adaptions.