Dear Colleagues,

While cases of COVID-19 soar and economic activity grinds to a halt, governments are right to throw all the resources they can at efforts to limit the pandemic’s human and economic costs. Most forecasters now expect global GDP to shrink this year, and some predict a contraction of fully 4%—twice the decline seen after the global financial crisis of 2007–09. Demand has collapsed for the commodities on which many emerging markets depend, from crude oil to fresh flowers, not to mention government debt, capital outflow, and firms' bankruptcy. The worst is yet to come.

What are the immediate causes and potential consequences of the crisis in the longer-term? What is the role that sustainable strategy can play for business to deal with the crisis? Sustainability welcomes you to submit papers to discuss in-depth analyses of particular facets and features and constructive reform proposals.

Topics of interest include (but are not limited to) the following:

• Understanding and analyzing the factors affecting sustainable business strategy with the pandemic;
• Modelling and evaluating the importance of sustainable development under the economic impacts of COVID-19;
• Adopting and exploring multiple-criteria decision-making methods and tools to examine different types of sustainable enterprise after the long-term halt of society;
• Leveraging hybrid approaches to identify the lessons learned for business sustainability in future crises.

Prof. Dr. Gang Kou
Prof. Dr. Enrique Herrera-Viedma
Prof. Dr. Yong Shi
Guest Editors

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• COVID-19
• sustainable business strategy
• decision-making
• hybrid approaches