The Implications of COVID-19 for Nonmarket Strategy Research

Abstract The COVID-19 virus ignited social and economic turmoil around the world Not since the Spanish Flu of 1918 had we seen a pandemic of such scale and severity The resultant global transformation of industries, supply chains, work, communication, and institutional frameworks suggests we are entering a period of non-ergodic change, in which the future cannot be extrapolated from the past (North, 1999) This means that we do not know the probability distribution or the outcomes from the virus So, we must find a way to coexist and build our resilience