The existential threat to small businesses, based on their crucial role in the economy, is behind the plethora of scholarly studies in 2020, the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic. Examining the 14 contributions of the special issue on the "Economic Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on...

Although relative performance feedback can positively influence employee performance, its effect tends to be mixed for employees who underperform compared to their peers. We conducted a field experiment testing whether basing relative performance feedback on inputs, which is relative performance...