Productivity and the pandemic : challenges and insights from Covid-19 /: challenges and insights from Covid-19. (2021)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Philip McCann, Tim Vorley.
• Editors: McCann, Philip, 1964-; Vorley, Tim, 1980-
• Contents: Contents: Introduction xiii Philip McCann and Tim Vorley 1 The Covid-19 shock: the UK national and regional implications in the light of international evidence 1 Philip McCann and Raquel Ortega-Argilés 2 Frontier and 'laggard' firms: will there be significant changes to the distribution of productivity post-Covid-19? 16 Richard Harris 3 Firm strategies under Covid-19 induced uncertainty: implications for policy 32 Vania Sena and Sumon Bhaumik 4 Implications and impacts of the crisis on micro businesses and their future 46 Andrew Henley, Tim Vorley and Cristian Gherhes 5 The impact of Covid-19 on entrepreneurial ecosystems 59 Colin Mason and Michaela Hruskova 6 Financing an entrepreneur-led economic recovery: the impact of the coronavirus on business angel investing 73 Colin Mason 7 The implications of a crisis-driven societal shift to online consumption 88 Stuart Mills, Richard Whittle and Gavin Brown 8 The Covid-19 crisis and implications for skills development and the skills system 104 Anne Green 9 Good work and mental health in the post-Covid era 119 Daniel Kopasker 10 Business models, innovation and employees' experiences in the workplace: challenges for the post-Covid-19 economy 132 Patricia Findlay, Colin Lindsay and Graeme Roy 11 Transport, the economy and environmental sustainability post-Covid-19 147 Iain Docherty, Greg Marsden, Jillian Anable and Tom Forth 12 Sectoral and spatial impacts of the Covid-19 recession 160 Ben Gardiner, Richard Lewney and Ron Martin 13 Cities, innovation and behavioural change: how the machine is evolving 173 Robert Huggins and Piers Thompson 14 Raising productivity and housing the economy 191 Duncan Maclennan, Julie Tian Miao, Linda Christie and Jinqiao Long 15 The paradox of efficiency: why the second-best may help us hedging risks in uncertain times 205 Ekkehard Ernst 16 Seeing the Covid-19 crises through a Minskyian lens: austerity, stratification, and productivity 219 Gary Dymski and Hanna Szymborska 17 How will the effects of Covid-19 on macroeconomic demand and supply affect firm-level productivity? 237 Don Webber and Gary Dymski 18 From systems change to systems changed: assuming a systems-based approach in response to crisis 250 Jen Nelles, Tim Vorley and Adam Brown 19 Active labour market policy in a post-Covid UK: moving beyond a 'work first' approach 263 Katy Jones 20 Recovery and resilience: how can innovation policy support the response 277 Jonathan Cook and Tim Vorley 21 Understanding a pandemic: the power of administrative data 289 Elizabeth Waind, Felix Ritchie, Nick Bailey and the Administrative Data | Agricultural Research Collection project team: Paul Caskie, Sian Morrison-Rees, Sarah Lowe and Nick Webster Index 293.
• Publisher Details: Cheltenham : Edward Elgar Publishing
• Publication Date: 2021
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 338.06; Industrial productivity; COVID-19 (Disease) -- Economic aspects; COVID-19 (Disease) -- Social aspects
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781800374607
• Related ISBNs: 9781800374591; 9781800374614
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