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Surviving the Covid-19 Pandemic: The Role of Digital Innovation and Transformation

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The Covid-19 pandemic, by effecting businesses, is inciting inter- and intra-organizational challenges requiring firms to adopt and/or adapt approaches that facilitate in managing business operations. Confronting such epidemic and its related challenges are importantly based on efficient internal and external collaboration. Inter-organizational trust is also becoming fragile particularly in uncertain situations such as current pandemic. Therefore, firms are struggling to even survive as their whole supply chain has erupted and lacking trust on external partners. In such circumstances, digital transformation is preparing organizations to address these issues and can support them to provide the opportunities to cope up and bounce back. This means that digital innovation and transformation seem to be playing a crucial role in recovering from the effect of Covid-19. Therefore, this paper taps on the topical issue of the varying impact of Covid-19 on internal and external operations of firms and how digital innovation and transformation play a critical role to keep-up with ‘new normal’ routines.

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This research is a part of InnoDigi project funded by the Foundation for Economic Education (Liikesivistysrahasto) under grant number 190283.

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Shahzad, K., Imran, F. (2021). Surviving the Covid-19 Pandemic: The Role of Digital Innovation and Transformation. In: Kalra, J., Lightner, N.J., Taiar, R. (eds) Advances in Human Factors and Ergonomics in Healthcare and Medical Devices. AHFE 2021. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 263. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-80744-3_88

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