Global Business and COVID
This type of organization, also referred to by the abbreviation MNE, is a main focus of Dau and Moore's global COVID paper.
What is a Multinational Enterprise?
This international financial association reached a staff level agreement with Barbados in May of 2023.
What is the IMF/International Monetary Fund?
Lyon et al. introduce this new concept, abbreviated CPR, referring to a company's transparency about its political activities.
What is Corporate Political Responsibility?
Dau and Moore's local business recovery report focuses on this region.
What is New England?
This type of resilience focuses on how stable a company's ratio of revenue to costs is.
What is financial resilience?
This international organization, abbreviated WHO, is mentioned as a key player in coordinating a global pandemic response.
What is the World Health Organization?
"[Barbados's] economy grew strongly in 2022 and continues to expand in 2023 driven by the rebound in BLANK and related activities."
What is tourism?
This political activity, where companies spend money to influence lawmakers and public policy, is identified as potentially having more environmental impact than a company's own sustainability efforts.
what is lobbying?
Dau and Moore found that the pandemic disproportionately affected these two groups of people in terms of business impact.
What are women and minorities?
This article writes that this concept describes a company's long term commitment to environmental and social responsibility.
What is sustainability?
According to the article, this country's manufacturers were cited as nearly crippling production for companies like Proctor, Gamble and Adidas.
What is China?
This natural phenomenon is listed as one of the key risks to Barbados' economy, reflecting the country's vulnerability as a small island nation.
What are natural disasters?
This famous economist argued in 1970 that the only social responsibility of business is to increase its profits.
Who is Milton Friedman?
Dau and Moore found that this industry, which relies heavily on in-person events, was particularly threatened by COVID because it is impossible to move it online.
What is the tourism industry.
This type of resilience asks how vulnerable a company's network of producers and suppliers is.
What is supply chain resilience?
Dau and Moore recommend that this type of organization, which includes the WHO and the UN, should play a central role in coordinating a global pandemic response.
What is an intergovernmental organization?
The IMF visit to Barbados in 2023 was led by this IMF team leader.
Who is Pablo Morra?
The article mentions that some companies will engage in this unscrupulous behavior, publicly supporting sustainability but secretly lobbying against environmental policies.
This New England industry was severely impacted when restaurants closed during the pandemic.
What is the fishing industry?
This type of resilience asks how a company will fortify their ability to deliver product(s) to customers.
What is Operational Resilience?
Dau and Moore (2020) cited these as the top five challenges facing multinational enterprises during the COVID pandemic, name at least 3.
What are 1) Continued contagion and the domino effect; 2) Supply chain disruptions and forced localizations; 3) Closing of borders - work force issues & knowledge flow problems; 4) Decreasing confidence in international trade/sales and consumer spending; and 5) Institutional complexity/uncertainty.
This type of energy source is mentioned as gradually increasing its share in Barbados's energy supply as a part of its climate agenda.
What is renewable energy?
This 2010 Supreme Court case is mentioned in the article as making it easier for companies to spend unlimited amounts of money on politics without disclosure.
what is citizens united?
This technology infrastructure, lacking in many rural New England communities, was identified as a major barrier to businesses trying to go digital during the pandemic.
What is broadband?
This type of reporting framework, created in 1997, is one of the main tools used to measure corporate sustainability.
What is the GRI/Global reporting initiative.