Businesses: Resilience and Sustainability

In a world of unprecedented disruption and market turbulence, business transformation revolves around the need to generate new values, unlock new opportunities, drive new growth, and deliver new efficiencies.

The world is witnessing volatility in the environment, in technology, in the economy and in society. 'Business as usual' is no longer acceptable, and the pertinent question is how long can humanity continue pursuing consumption and growth predicated on ever-increasing efficiency. The Coronavirus pandemic has amplified concerns about the highly digitized, interconnected, and vulnerable state of the global economy, the relationship with nature, and the prospects for each living being on this planet, including people, to survive and to thrive. To navigate and survive the coming decade of transformative change, every business will need to harness all the ingenuity, creativity and imagination they can muster. Corporate leaders and entrepreneurs will be required to steer their businesses towards a new model of prosperity, based on green and regenerative principles. It is time for leaders in business to overhaul their purpose, plans and strategies for this new context and explore different futures, engage with new partners and create space for experimentation. The only way to prepare for the future is to explore how companies, especially medium and small enterprises as well as women led businesses can transform their future strategies to be more compatible with challenges such as cyber security, human security, ethical principles and financial transparency.

This book presents a collection of empirical and original research papers on evolving business strategies within a dynamic global environment to provide valuable insights to scholars, academicians, practitioners, policymakers and students.

Contents:

• The Virus and Disruption: Businesses' Resilience and Sustainability (Reena Marwah and Anshi Goel)

• Contemporary Business Developments:

  • Impact of Post-Covid Informal Political Dialogue on Stock Market Integration: Evidence From QUAD (Tanuja Puri)
  • The Impact of the Institutional and Environmental Factors on the Sustainable FDI: Evidence from ASEAN Economies (Reena Marwah and Neha)
  • Sustainability Reporting: Recent Trends, Present Scenario and the Way Ahead (Ameeta Motwani)
  • Relationship between Shadow Banking and Real Estate Bubble in China (Renu Gupta and Gurpreet Kaur)

• MSMEs in Asian Economies: Building Resilience:

  • COVID-19, Women Entrepreneurs and the Untold Stories So Far (Sampa Kundu and Arpita Singh)
  • Challenges Faced by MSMEs during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Way Ahead (Ruchi Bhalla)
  • The Impact of SMEs on Urban Poverty and Growth in Sri Lanka (Dushyanthi Imalka Herath and Sanika Sulochani Ramanayake)
  • Financing Micro and Small Enterprises in India through Mutual Credit Guarantee Schemes (Jacob John, Megha Jacob and Naveen Joseph Thomas)
  • Women's Contribution towards the Success of Small-Scale Business in Sri Lanka (Dinesh Thilakarathne and R A S Sandunika)

• Sustainable Strategies: Evidence through Case Studies:

  • Social Stock Exchange: The Way Forward for India (Priyanka Marwah, Anshi Goel and Saloni Arora)
  • Dawn of Environmentally Sustainable Strategies in Sri Lanka: A Case Study (V P K P M Bandara)
  • The Role of Women in Technology-Driven Economy during COVID-19 Pandemic: A Case Study of BPO Industry in India (Avdhesh Kumar)

Readership: Scholars, academicians, practitioners, students, and policymakers in the field of business and development; anyone interested to

Dettagli