Sharma Amalesh, Borah Sourav Bikash, Moses Aditya C
Mays Business School, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, United States.
Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, Ahmedabad, India.
J Bus Res. 2021 Jan;122:597-607. doi: 10.1016/j.jbusres.2020.09.011. Epub 2020 Sep 10.
The ongoing COVID-19 outbreak has revealed vulnerabilities in global healthcare responses. Research in epidemiology has focused on understanding the effects of countries' responses on COVID-19 spread. While a growing body of research has focused on understanding the role of macro-level factors on responses to COVID-19, we have a limited understanding of what drives countries' responses to COVID-19. We lean on organizational learning theory and the extant literature on rare events to propose that governance structure, investment in healthcare infrastructure, and learning from past pandemics influence a country's response regarding reactive and proactive strategies. With data collected from various sources and using an empirical methodology, we find that centralized governance positively affects reactive strategies, while healthcare infrastructure and learning from past pandemics positively influence proactive and reactive strategies. This research contributes to the literature on learning, pandemics, and rare events.
持续的新冠疫情暴露出全球医疗应对方面的薄弱环节。流行病学研究聚焦于了解各国应对措施对新冠病毒传播的影响。虽然越来越多的研究致力于理解宏观层面因素在应对新冠疫情中的作用，但我们对推动各国应对新冠疫情的因素了解有限。我们借助组织学习理论和关于罕见事件的现有文献，提出治理结构、医疗基础设施投资以及从过去疫情中吸取的经验教训会影响一个国家在应对策略和主动策略方面的应对措施。通过从各种来源收集数据并采用实证方法，我们发现集中式治理对应对策略有积极影响，而医疗基础设施以及从过去疫情中吸取的经验教训对主动和应对策略均有积极影响。本研究为有关学习、疫情和罕见事件的文献做出了贡献。
