Covid-19 and Society: Socio-Economic Perspectives on the Impact, Implications, and Challenges

This timely book presents a collection of expert insights into the impacts of COVID-19 in a broader socio-economic context. In each chapter, the authors identify the current impact of COVID-19 by demonstrating transformative signals and project these signals to the future by considering their alternative futures and implications.

The book emphasizes that dealing with major global pandemics like COVID-19 requires all countries and regions to take different, but synchronized measures to decrease its socio-economic effects in the short, medium and long run. The consequences of COVID-19 will go beyond medicine to cover all other aspects of life and are bound to change the nature of organizations. Moving beyond the medical viewpoint, the experts in this book discuss the topic from multi-dimensional and multi-disciplinary angles by focusing on the domains of technology, business, finance, marketing, law, public administration, and education.

Mustafa Polat is a Professor of Strategy and Management at the OSTIM Technical University (Ankara, Turkey). His research interest lies mainly in the fields of strategy and management, and also includes organizational behavior, leadership, organizational development, and future of management. He has published book chapters and articles in different national and international journals.

Serhat Burmaoglu is a Professor of Health Services Management at the Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences of Kyrgyzstan Turkey Manas University (Biskek, Kyrgyzstan). His research interest is on the relationship between economic growth, productivity, competitiveness, innovation, and knowledge economy at the macro-economic level. He has published many book chapters and articles in different national and international journals.

Ozcan Saritas is a Professor of Innovation and Foresight at the National Research University Higher School of Economics (HSE, Moscow, Russia). He is the Editor-in-Chief of ＂Foresight＂ - The journal of future studies, strategic thinking, and policy. He is also an Honorary Professor at the Manchester Institute of Innovation Research, The University of Manchester (UK). His research focuses on innovation and policy research with particular emphasis on socio-economic and technological foresight. He introduced the ’Systemic Foresight Methodology’ and has produced a number of publications on the topic.