Toward a strategic approach to studying COVID-19 pandemic

Purpose The purpose of this introduction is fourfold: (1) to articulate the reasons for special issue; (2) highlight some fundamental issues related management research on COVID-19; (3) introduce authors and summarize their contributions (4) provide suggestions future pertaining global challenges business in general. Design/methodology/approach This article introduces issue by addressing following four points COVID-19 pandemic: conceptualization crisis, role organizations, pandemic business–society relationships. We briefly relate papers these we conclude with thoughts how move forward domain. Findings has proven be one most important mankind organizations recent years, many have very resilient face this. Effective leadership, communication stakeholders, new organizational forms such as cross-sectoral collaborations all dealing crisis. They will also likely even more serious crises climate change other referred issue. Originality/value paper provides an overview summary implications As such, its originality derives mostly from contained