Abstract

Goal: The aim of this study is to conduct a systematic literature review to identify opportunities to minimize Covid-19 impacts on businesses.
 Design / Methodology / Approach: The methodology used corresponds to a literature systematic review, covering bibliometric and content analysis. For this purpose, the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) was employed in the literature search. In total, 98 papers were selected to compose the bibliometric analysis, of which 14 are within the scope of the investigation (content analysis).
 Results: Bibliometric results present a grouping of keywords, authors' co-citation network, geographic distribution of publications and main journals. In the content analysis, trends for post-pandemic economy are pointed out, unveiling guidelines and opportunities to ensure the resilience of business proposals.
 Limitations of the investigation: The conclusions present limitations inherent to literature review papers, where filters are used to limit the search. In this work, the research was restricted to articles, published between 2015 and 2020 and written in English.
 Practical implications: This article proposes perspectives to react in a resilient way in the post-Pandemic period of Covid-19, in order to guarantee the permanence and competitiveness of the companies in the market.
 Originality / Value: Product-Service Systems and Circular Economy were found to be related to the trends and opportunities identified for the short-future economy.

Highlights

  • The coronavirus outbreak identified in Wuhan, Hubei province, China, in December 2019 (Zhang et al, 2020a) spread fast through the world, revealing challenges in healthcare, economic, environmental and societal fields (Chakraborty and Maity, 2020)

  • Originality / Value: Product-Service Systems and Circular Economy were found to be related to the trends and opportunities identified for the short-future economy

  • In order to answer the research question “What are the business tendencies to the post-outbreak period?”, this paper had the goal of conducting a systematic literature review to identify opportunities to minimize Covid-19 impacts on businesses

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Introduction

The coronavirus outbreak identified in Wuhan, Hubei province, China, in December 2019 (Zhang et al, 2020a) spread fast through the world, revealing challenges in healthcare, economic, environmental and societal fields (Chakraborty and Maity, 2020). A need for a new perspective in the offer of products and services, an intertwined supply chain with suppliers, stakeholders and market demands (Ivanov and Dolgui, 2020). Business models such as Product-Service Systems (PSS), commonly seen as models capable of guiding society into a Circular Economy (Halstenberg et al, 2019; Hankammer et al, 2019; Pieroni, et al, 2019), represent an opportunity to establish a synergic relationship between the environment and economic growth (Jia et al, 2020)

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