Foresight: Volume 24 Issue 3/4

Editorial: Business disruptions and innovations beyond COVID-19

Muhammad Imran Qureshi, Nohman Khan

Fostering sustainability: reinventing SME strategy in the new normal

Meng Kui Hu, Daisy Mui Hung Kee

This paper aims to deliberate the significant impacts caused by the COVID-19 pandemic on small and medium enterprises (SMEs). It also discusses SMEs’ practical approaches to…

Forecasting Euro against US dollar via combination of NARDL and Univariate techniques during COVID-19

Muhammad AsadUllah, Muhammad Adnan Bashir, Abdur Rahman Aleemi

The purpose of this study is to examine the accuracy of combined models with the individual models in terms of forecasting Euro against US dollar during COVID-19 era. During…

Respond to environmental turbulence sparks firm performance by embracing business model transformation: an empirical study on the internet service provider in Indonesia

Librita Arifiani, Harjanto Prabowo, Asnan Furinto Furinto, Wibowo Kosasih

This study aims to investigate solutions to answer several questions regarding the direct influence of the respond to environmental turbulence (ET) on firm performance (FP) and…

Innovation strategy beyond the COVID-19 pandemic: the role of trust under disruptive technology

Aluisius Hery Pratono

This paper aims to understand how firms promote innovation under disruptive technology by exploring the role of trust and risk-taking behaviour in enhancing product development…

Business adversity during the COVID-19 crisis and beyond: the way forward for small and medium enterprises in India

Saji Thazhungal Govindan Nair

The novel coronavirus (COVID-19) leaves Indian business teetering on the edge of survival. This paper aims to set out to assess the impact of the pandemic shocks on the small and…

Forced online experiment and its acceptance among the University students during pandemic in Pakistan

Iqra Abdullah, Shazia Parveen, Saif Ul Haq

This study aims to assess the acceptability of online classes among university students of Pakistan through the extension of the unified theory of acceptance and use of technology…

A novel extended design thinking approach and predicting antecedents of food friend application acceptance during the COVID-19 outbreak

Nattaporn Thongsri, Pattaraporn Warintarawej, Santi Chotkaew, Jariya Seksan

The purpose of this paper is to develop a prototype of Online Food Delivery Application that addresses the actual needs of the user and to study the factors affecting the…

The role of healthcare supply chain management in the wake of COVID-19 pandemic: hot off the press

Sriyanto Sriyanto, Muhammad Saeed Lodhi, Hailan Salamun, Sardin Sardin, Chairil Faif Pasani, Gulnaz Muneer, Khalid Zaman

The study aims to examine the role of health-care supply chain management during the COVID-19 pandemic in a cross-section of 42 selected sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries.

Potential disruptive innovation: online learning of public speaking courses in higher education

Bee Choo Yee, Abdullah Mohd Nawi, Tina Abdullah

The sudden pandemic of COVID-19 has caused disruptive innovation in all areas of business including education. Despite the educators’ and students’ acceptance and readiness in the…

Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the environment and socioeconomic viability: a sustainable production chain alternative

Halima Begum, Kashif Abbas, A.S.A. Ferdous Alam, Huaming Song, Mohammad Tayub Chowdhury, Ahmad Bashawir Abdul Ghani

The purpose of this study is to address the global COVID-19 pandemic related to its sustainability, such as environmental, economic and social concerns. The short study also…

Consumers’ sustainable online purchase behaviour during COVID-19 pandemic: the role of relational benefit and site commitment

Mohammad Rashed Hasan Polas, Mosab I. Tabash, Asghar Afshar Jahanshahi, Bulbul Ahamed

This study aims to investigate the factors that influence the sustainable online purchase intentions of consumers during the COVID-19 pandemic. This study also examines the role…

Managerial innovative capabilities, competitive advantage and performance of healthcare sector during Covid-19 pandemic period

Demetris Vrontis, Hani El Chaarani, Zouhour El Abiad, Sam El Nemar, Alissar Yassine Haddad

The purpose of this paper is to reveal the impact of dynamic managerial innovative capabilities on the competitive advantage (CA), financial performance (FP) and non-financial…

A study on entrepreneurial opportunities in digital health-care post-Covid-19 from the perspective of developing countries

Rahul Khandelwal, Ashutosh Kolte, Matteo Rossi

The Covid-19 pandemic encourages organized structures across health sectors to react to the outbreak and digital health technologies have been identified as promising pillars to…

Comparative study on performance of different artificial neural network methods for prediction of the Covid19

Alireza Sedighi Fard

This study aims to compare many artificial neural network (ANN) methods to find out which method is better for the prediction of Covid19 number of cases in N steps ahead of the…