Abstract
Today, management science, like all other areas of human life, has been severely affected by the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) crisis. The challenges that the crisis have created for various areas of management have had many consequences and in many cases have led to the loss and bankruptcy of many businesses. Hence, management theorists and practitioners need to address each of these challenges and issues in detail. Therefore, the year of the COVID-19 crisis has created a critical and epoch-making year for management knowledge. Accordingly, a big picture of changes caused by the COVID-19 pandemic in the organization and management studies is important. Thus, the chapter has pursued this important goal in three parts. In the first part, we examine theoretical foundations of organization and management that have changed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The second part deals with organizational areas affected by the pandemic. In the last section, we will review the recommendations made by management theorists in the face of the pandemic. Finally, in the conclusion section, using the results of the studies conducted in these three sections, we focus on research currents in the organization and management studies faced with the pandemic. In this section, two research currents were identified: the revolutionary current and the developmental current. Each of these currents can totally transform the future of management theory and practice. Then, the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on collapse and creation of businesses were examined.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
Notes
- 1.
Foundationalism is an appropriate research strategy when examining the profound and far-reaching effects of a phenomenon on the dimensions of a knowledge (Azizi et al., 2017) – more details in research methodology.
- 2.
“The philosophy or practice of conducting the affairs of an organized group (as a nation) by planning and direction by professional managers” (Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary). The most prominent feature of this school is its greater emphasis on means than ends (Hendry, 2013).
References
Ali-Ahmadi Jeshfaghni, H. (2020). Philosophy of behavioral decision-making against the Corona virus epidemics prevalence (case study: The difference between macro-management models in combating COVID-19 in Iran and the United States). Journal of Marine Medicine, 2(1), 65–77.
Argenti, Paul A. (2020, March 13). Communicating through the coronavirus crisis. Harvard Business Review. URL: https://hbr.org/2020/03/communicating-through-the-coronavirus-crisis
Azizi, M., Adel, A., & Nayeri, M. D. (2020). Participatory decision making in the post COVID-19 period. Modern Research in Decision Making, 5(2), 165–192.
Azizi, M., Azizi, S. M., & Latifi, M. (2017). Investigating the effect of utilitarian school on decision-making theories and comparing it with the theory of Islamic growth. Journal of Islamic Management Research, 3.
Bapuji, H., de Bakker, F. G. A., Brown, J. A., Higgins, C., Rehbein, K., & Spicer, A. (2020a). Business and society research in times of the corona crisis. Business & Society, 59(6), 1067–1078. https://doi.org/10.1177/0007650320921172
Bapuji, H., Patel, C., Ertug, G., & Allen, D. G. (2020b). Corona crisis and inequality: Why management research needs a societal turn. Journal of Management, 46(7), 1205–1222. https://doi.org/10.1177/0149206320925881
Bradley, R. (2015). Decision theory with a human face. Cambridge University Press.
Business Human Rights Report, COVID-19 and Responsible Business Conduct. (2020). IRL: https://www.business-humanrights.org/sites/default/files/documents/OECD_COVID-19%20and%20Responsible%20Business%20Conduct_Full%20Note.pdf
Caligiuri, P., De Cieri, H., Minbaeva, D., Verbeke, A., & Zimmermann, A. (2020). International HRM insights for navigating the COVID-19 pandemic: Implications for future research and practice. Journal of International Business Studies, 1, 74–80.
Carlsson-Szlezak, P., Reeves, M., & Swartz, P. (2020, March 3). What coronavirus could mean for the global economy. Harvard Business Review. URL: https://hbr.org/2020/03/what-coronavirus-could-mean-for-the-global-economy
Chatterji, M. (2020). Caring management in the new Economy, socially responsible behaviour through spirituality. Journal of Management, Spirituality & Religion, 17, 1–6.
Corrêa, N. K. (2020). The automation of acceleration: AI and the future of society. arXiv preprint arXiv:2007.04477.
De Bakker, F. G. A., Matten, D., Spence, L. J., & Wickert, C. (2020). The elephant in the room: The nascent research agenda on corporations, social responsibility, and capitalism. Business & Society. Advance online publication.https://doi.org/10.1177/0007650319898196
de Caro, F., Hirschmann, T. M., & Verdonk, P. (2020). Returning to orthopaedic business as usual after COVID-19: Strategies and options. Sports Traumatology, Arthroscopy, (28), 1699–1704. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00167-020-06031-3
Dirilen-Gumus, O. (2011). Differences in system justification with respect to gender, political conservatism, socio-economic status and religious fundamentalism. Procedia-Social and Behavioral Sciences, 30, 2607–2611.
Dolan, S. L., Raich, M., Garti, A., & Landau, A. (2020, April 28). “The COVID-19 crisis” as an opportunity for introspection: A multi-level reflection on values, needs, trust and leadership in the future. The European Business Review.
Engel, M. (1992). Personal and doxastic justification in epistemology. Philosophical Studies, 67, 133–150. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00373694
Fleming, M. (2002, November). What is safety culture? Rail way safety ever green house. Sage.
Fleming, P. (2012). The end of corporate social responsibility: Crisis and critique. Sage.
Franke, R. H., & Kaul, J. D. (1978). The Hawthorne experiments: First statistical interpretation. American Sociological Review, 4(5), 623–643.
Friedman, S. D., & Westring, A. F. (2020, March 10). How working parents can prepare for coronavirus closures. Harvard Business Review. URL: https://hbr.org/2020/03/how-working-parents-can-prepare-for-coronavirus-closures
Ghaffari, G. (2010). The logic of comparative research. Iranian Journal of Social Studies, 3(4), 64–85. Winter 2009.
Gray, J. (2020). Goodbye to globalization. The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2001/feb/27/globalisation
Greig, F. (2020). Coronavirus symptoms explained: Meaning of a ‘persistent’ or ‘continuous’ cough, high temperature and loss of smell and taste. URL: https://inews.co.uk/news/health/coronavirus-symptoms-explained-persistent-continuous-cough-temperature-high-loss-smell-taste-anosmia-409092
Guillén, M., Ferrero, I., & Hoffman, W. M. (2015). The neglected ethical and spiritual motivations in the workplace. Journal of Business Ethics, 128(4), 803–816.
Haller, R. (1988). Justification and praxeological foundationalism. Inquiry, 31(3), 335–345.
Haren, P., & Simchi-Levi, D. (2020, February 28). How coronavirus could impact the global supply chain by mid-March. Harvard Business Review. URL: https://hbr.org/2020/02/how-coronavirus-could-impact-the-global-supply-chain-by-mid-march
Hendry, J. (2013). Management: A very short introduction. Oxford University Press. https://global.oup.com/ukhe/product/management-a-very-short-introduction-9780199656981?cc=gb&lang=en& Print ISBN-13: 9780199656981
Hitt, M., Ireland, R. D., & Huskisson, R. E. (2020). Strategic management: Concepts: Competitiveness and globalization (12th ed.). Cengage Learning.
Hofstede, G. (1991). Cultures and organizations: Software of the mind. McGraw-Hill.
Jang, Y. S., Steven Ott, J., & Shafritz, J. M. (2011). Classic readings in organization theory. Wadsworth Cengage Learning.
Kuhn, T. S. (2012). The structure of scientific revolutions. The University of Chicago Press.
Li, Y., Zhang, F. P., Yan, Y., Zhou, J. H., & Li, Y. F. (2019). Multi-source uncertainty considered assembly process quality control based on surrogate model and information entropy. Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization, 59(5), 1685–1701.
Lin, C. (2020, March 17). Delivery technology is keeping Chinese cities afloat through coronavirus. Harvard Business Review. URL: https://hbr.org/2020/03/delivery-technology-is-keeping-chinese-cities-afloat-through-coronavirus
Linton, T., & Vakil, B. (2020, March 5). Coronavirus is proving we need more resilient supply chains. Harvard Business Review. URL: https://hbr.org/2020/03/coronavirus-is-proving-that-we-need-more-resilient-supply-chains
Little, M., Lipworth, W., Gordon, J., Markham, P., & Kerridge, I. (2012). Values-based medicine and modest foundationalism. Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice, 18(5), 1020–1026.
Lu, L., Wu, H. L., & Cooper, C. L. (1999). Perceived work stress and locus of control: A combined quantitative and qualitative approach. Research and Practice in Human Resource Management, 7(1), 1–15.
Martin, L. L. (2006). Jeremy Bentham on organization theory and decision making, public policy analysis and administration management, handbook of organization theory and management, the philosophical approach. Taylor and Francis.
Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary. https://www.merriamwebster.com/dictionary/managerialism
Mintzberg, H., & Waters, J. A. (1990). Tracking strategy in an entrepreneurial firm. Family Business Review, 3(3), 285–315.
Monson, C. (2020, March 27). What small businesses need to survive the coronavirus crisis. Harvard Business Review. URL: https://hbr.org/2020/03/what-small-businesses-need-to-survive-the-coronavirus-crisis
Naqvi, Z. B., & Russell, Y. (2020). A Wench’s guide to surviving a ‘global’ pandemic crisis: Feminist publishing in a time of COVID-19. Feminist Legal Studies. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10691-020-09435-1
Nardi, B. A., & Whittaker, S. (2002). The place of face-to-face communication in distributed work. In Distributed work (pp. 83–112). Boston Review.
Neeley, T., & Beard, A. (2020). Adjusting to remote work during the coronavirus crisis. Harvard Business Review. URL: https://hbr.org/podcast/2020/03/adjusting-to-remote-work-during-the-coronavirus-crisis
Planken, B. (2013). Definitions of social responsibility. In S. O. Idowu, N. Capaldi, L. Zu, & A. D. Gupta (Eds.), Encyclopedia of corporate social responsibility. Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-28036-8_476
Reeves, M., Fæste, L., Chen, C., Carlsson-Szlezak, P., & Whitaker, K. (2020a, March 10). How Chinese companies have responded to coronavirus. Harvard Business Review. URL: https://hbr.org/2020/03/how-chinese-companies-have-responded-to-coronavirus
Reeves, M., Lang, N., & Carlsson-Szlezak, P. (2020b, February 27). Lead your business through the coronavirus crisis. Harvard Business Review. URL: https://hbr.org/2020/02/lead-your-business-through-the-coronavirus-crisis
Rescher, N. (1975). Foundationalism, coherentism, and the idea of cognitive systematization. The Journal of Philosophy, 71(19), 695–708.
Rice, J. B., Jr. (2020, February 27). Prepare your supply chain for coronavirus. Harvard Business Review. URL: https://hbr.org/2020/02/prepare-your-supply-chain-for-coronavirus
Roberts, M., & McCluney, C. L.. (2020). harvard business review, https://hbr.org/2020/06/working-from-home-while-black
Rutten, F. T., & Becker, J. (2020). Comprehending millennial motivation during a crisis-the perceived influence of the employee-leader relationship. Dissertation, Malmö universitet/Kultur och samhälle). Retrieved from http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-22701
Sagden, R., & Williams, A. (1978). Fundamentals of cost-benefit analysis. Oxford University Press.
Simon, H. (1946, Winter). The proverbs of administration. Public Administration Review, 6(1), 53–67.
Steup, M., & Ram, N. (2020). Epistemology. In E. N. Zalta (Ed.), The Stanford encyclopedia of philosophy (Fall 2020 edition). https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/fall2020/entries/epistemology
Susser, P., & Tyson, T. (2020, March 4). What are companies’ legal obligations around coronavirus? Harvard Business Review. URL: https://hbr.org/2020/03/what-are-companies-legal-obligations-around-coronavirus
Taket, A., & White, L. (2000). Partnership and participation: Decision-making in the multiagency setting. Wiley.
Tarki, A., Levy, P., & Weiss, J. (2020, March 20). The coronavirus crisis doesn’t have to lead to layoffs. Harvard Business Review. URL: https://hbr.org/2020/03/the-coronavirus-crisis-doesnt-have-to-lead-to-layoffs
Taylor, F. W. (1911). The principles of scientific management. Harper & Brothers.
Thomas, H., & Hatchuel, A. (2009). A foundationalist perspective for management research: A European trend and experience. Management Decision, 47, 1458–1475.
Velupillai, V. (2016). A pragmatic holist: Herbert Simon, economics and “the architecture of complexity”. In New approaches to economic challenges. OECD.
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Corresponding author
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2022 The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG
About this chapter
Cite this chapter
Azar, A., Azizi, M. (2022). Developments and Changes in Organization and Management Research in the Post-COVID-19 Era: A Foundationalist Approach. In: Faghih, N., Forouharfar, A. (eds) Socioeconomic Dynamics of the COVID-19 Crisis. Contributions to Economics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-89996-7_6
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-89996-7_6
Published:
Publisher Name: Springer, Cham
Print ISBN: 978-3-030-89995-0
Online ISBN: 978-3-030-89996-7
eBook Packages: Economics and FinanceEconomics and Finance (R0)