Socioeconomic Dynamics of the COVID-19 Crisis
By Nezameddin Faghih and Amir Forouharfar
Contents:
1 An Introduction to Socioeconomic Dynamics of the COVID-19 Crisis: Global, Regional, and Local Perspectives 1
Nezameddin Faghih and Amir Forouharfar
Part I Impacts on Entrepreneurship and Management Studies
2 Entrepreneurial Frugality in Crisis: An Interpretative Phenomenological Approach 19
Nezameddin Faghih, Mansoureh Vahabzadeh, and Mozhgan Danesh
3 The Future of International Entrepreneurship Post-COVID-19 45
Lasse Torkkeli, Anisur Faroque, and Hannes Velt
4 The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Development of Entrepreneurial Universities:
A Study of Higher Education Institutions in Turkey 63
Hiroko Kawamorita, Aidin Salamzadeh, David A. Kirby, and Kurşat Demiryurek
5 Opportunities and Threats Facing Early-Stage Digital
Startups During the COVID-19
Pandemic 83
Asef Karimi, Navid Mohammadi, and Shaghayegh Sakhteh
6 Developments and Changes in Organization and Management Research in the Post-COVID-19 Era:
A Foundationalist Approach 101
Adel Azar and Mahdi Azizi
Part II Shock Economy and Financial Dynamics
7 Lessons from COVID-19 and Its Impact on Reallocation of Resources: A Cross-Country
Comparison in Search of a Global Perspective 127
Jamshid Damooei
8 Financial Markets and COVID-19 175
Kunibert Raffer
9 Forecasting Monetary Policy Rates in the COVID-19 Era for South Africa 193
Thobeka Ncanywa and Ombeswa Ralarala
10 The Effectiveness of the COVID-19 Economic and Social Relief Package as a Poverty Alleviation Strategy in South Africa 215
Adrino Mazenda, Tyanai Masiya, and David Mandiyanike
11 Oil Price, Foreign Reserves, and Exchange Rate Nexus During COVID-19 231
Philip Ifeakachukwu Nwosa and Oluwadamilola Tosin Fasina
Part III Politics and Sociology of the COVID-19 Crisis
12 COVID-19 and China’s Quest for Global Hegemony 253
Angela Ajodo-Adebanjoko
13 COVID-19 and the Cultural Challenges of the Rights of Contemporary African Ancestors 269
Benson Ohihon Igboin
Part IV Psychology of the COVID-19 Crisis
14 Psychological Perspectives on COVID-19 291
Sara Hosseini-Nezhad, Saba Safdar, Pegah Hosseini-Nezhad, and Lan Anh Nguyen Luu
15 Incorporating the Outcomes of COVID-19 with Other Recent
Pandemic Outbreaks on Healthcare Workers: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis 327
Amrita Choudhary, Jay Kumar Ranjan, Payal Sharma, and H. S. Asthana
Part V The COVID-19 Crisis: Public Health and Biopolitics
16 The Spread of the Novel Coronavirus Disease-2019 in Polluted Cities: Environmental and Demographic Factors to Control for the Prevention of Future Pandemic Diseases 351
Mario Coccia
17 High-Performing Machine Learning Algorithms for Predicting the Spread of COVID-19 371
David O. Oyewola, K. A. Al-Mustapha, Asabe Ibrahim,
and Emmanuel Gbenga Dada
18 Perceptions and Coping Strategies to COVID-19 in a Rural Ghanaian Community 403
Peter Asare-Nuamah, Justina Adwoa Onumah,
Christopher Dick-Sagoe, and Kingsley Obeng Kessie
19 Government Policy Response to COVID-19 and Stock Market Return: The Case of Iran 423
Sakine Owjimehr and Ali Hussein Samadi
20 Request and Donation Efficiencies in a Crisis: Data Envelopment Analyses of a Philippine Web-Based
Emergency Response System 441
Jackson J. Tan and Richard L. Parcia
Part VI The COVID-19 Crisis: Food and Agriculture
21 How Did COVID-19 Reshape Food Procurement Around the Globe? Effective Operation and Redesign
of the Food Retail Industry in China, Portugal, Turkey, and the USA 465
Yiru Wang, Merve Yanar Gurce, Joao Nuno Lopes, Tite Xu, and Xiang Chen
22 COVID-19 Pandemic and Agriculture: Potential Impact on Legumes and Their Economic Value Chain 485
Mangena Phetole
Index 507