We investigate the relationship between political attitudes and prosociality in a survey of a representative sample of the U.S. population during the first summer of the COVID-19 pandemic. We find that an experimental measure of prosociality correlates positively with adherence to protective...

The current article explores and assesses the coming into being of new business culture characteristics due to the extreme conditions of Covid-19 pandemic. Based on conducted focus group with students in Organizational culture module and performed subsequent literature review of scientific and...

What is the relationship, if any, between economic freedom and pandemics? This paper addresses this question from a robust political economy approach. As is the case with recovery from natural disasters or warfare, a society that is relatively free economically offers economic actors greater...

This descriptive study aimed to estimate the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic crisis on cooperative in Indonesia and to explore crisis mitigation measures (CMMs) they undertake with the reference to saving and loan cooperatives (KSPs). This study was based on a literature study and a survey on 66...

The COVID-19 pandemic has reignited interest in trust in public institutions as the efficacy of public health interventions is predicated on trust in the institutions (different levels of government and health authorities). Using a unique micro-level dataset, I assess trust of Canadians in...

The goal of this article is to evaluate what the Czech and Slovak governments have done to protect their countries and try to assess why they have achieved different results for the first and second waves of the COVID-19 pandemic. The basis for such evaluation is the concept of collaborative...

While social capital is commonly held to support collective action, according to Putnam (2000) and Bourdieu (1986) social disparities may result in the formation of narrow social bonds that serve to exacerbate existing social cleavages and may serve as an impediment to effective collective...

As the covid pandemic spread in early 2020, global travel ground to a halt. For Airbnb, the San Francisco-based company providing accommodation rentals, the impact was both swift and severe as revenues plummeted by more than 70% year-over-year. Responding to the dramatic downturn was a challenge...

Pandemics are a recurring feature of human history. The COVID-19 virus has several features that mean it poses a particularly severe challenge. It threatens to cause a collapse of hospital systems through a high number of serious cases arising in a short period of time, and this, rather than...