Business Stability

For workers fortunate enough to have been working remotely during the pandemic amid historic layoffs, thoughts about a return to the workplace are not just centered around plexiglass dividers, sanitizer dispensers, and separated workstations.

Delta Air Lines’ latest outlook confirms Omicron probably won’t derail travel recovery, but recurrent Covid-19 setbacks still bad news for carriers. The Covid-19 pandemic is probably turning endemic, with long-lasting negative effects on the economy.

What is good for a country may not be good for its big businesses, at least recently. More turnover in top businesses correlates with faster per capita gross domestic product, productivity, and capital growth; supporting Schumpeter's theory of “creative destruction”—innovative firms blooming as stagnant ones wither.

In the face of the COVID-19 crisis, the County must strengthen its commitment to sustainability, equity, and resilience in order to create a pathway for investment in a safe, healthy, and inclusive future.

Counties on the County Monitoring List are under active monitoring by the state, and may receive targeted engagement and technical support from CDPH and other agencies and departments including the Business, Consumer Services and Housing Agency, the Department of Industrial Relations and the California Department of Food and Agriculture. Counties that do not demonstrate substantial progress at 14 days are candidates for reinstituting community measures.

California has a blueprint for reducing COVID-19 in the state with revised criteria for loosening and tightening restrictions on activities.

After a bit of last-minute legislative maneuvering, the list of propositions that California voters will be asked to weigh in on has been — more or less — finalized.

California lawmakers voted Friday to send Gov. Gavin Newsom a $202.1 billion budget that avoids deep cuts, despite a projected $54 billion deficit brought on by the coronavirus, by delaying some payments and using reserves.

Businesses are laying off workers, shutting their doors (some permanently), and struggling to react to the radical destruction that coronavirus (COVID-19) is doing to our society and communities. Most have already sustained massive damage, and we still have yet to see the scope of this global pandemic.

In 2022, people will still ask you as a business leader, “What did you do during the pandemic to serve your community?” If you don’t have a good answer now, it’s not too late to find your purpose as a business in this pandemic and create business/nonprofit partnerships that will last beyond this pandemic crisis.

As authorities consider giving the “all clear” for your business to reopen soon in some modified way, it’s time to plan how you’ll go beyond just opening your doors and re-engaging as a community leader. Invite your key stakeholders—your employees, vendors, customers, and community partners—back to the new normal that reaffirms and amplifies your role as a leader. With these six re-opening tactics for community engagement, you and your organization will come back stronger from the COVID-19 restrictions.

We review the history of packaging and address sustainability in e-commerce packaging. E-commerce packaging generates a huge amount of waste. Packaging needs to accommodate exponential business growth in e-commerce. Current materials and technologies that could mitigate this problem are revised. Life Cycle Assessment should guarantee the sustainability of new packaging approaches.

This paper seeks to identify the contributions of artificial intelligence (AI) to supply chain management (SCM) through a systematic review of the existing literature. To address the current scientific gap of AI in SCM, this study aimed to determine the current and potential AI techniques that can enhance both the study and practice of SCM.

Sustainability has emerged as an important industrial strategic outlook expanding beyond organizational boundaries to include the supply chain. Simultaneously, the industry has also been faced with supply chain resilience concerns. Research on the intersection of supply chain sustainability and resilience is nascent and is a consequence of their observed mutual influences.

Most of the theories that have dominated supply chain management (SCM) take a reductionist and static view on the supply chain and its management, promoting a global hunt for cheap labor and resources. As a result, supply chains tend to be operated without much concern for their broader contextual environment. This perspective overlooks that supply chains have become both vulnerable and harmful systems.

More than a decade ago, other fields started to challenge the equilibrium-focused meaning of resilience. They suggested that resilience does not just relate to the ability of a system to “bounce back” after an impeding event, but also to the capacity to adapt and transform. The operations and supply chain management literature remains surprisingly disconnected from these debates.

The ReSOLVE model is applied and tested in a real-world supply chain. The developed industry 4.0 solution is considered key enabler for circular economy. The circular economy ReSOLVE model is used to evaluate the proposed solution. Online bidding process and blockchain are used in a waste-to-energy application. Various improvements are presented towards circular economy.

The effect of COVID-19 on socio-economic implications and the impact of lockdown on the food supply chain and agri-business. We have analyzed some supply chain barriers due to COVID-19 and the economic effects of COVID-19 in real-estate firms, the tourism sector, or worldwide GDP growth. We have summarized some recovery strategies for the food industry that may reduce the food supply chain's economic losses in the pandemic situation. We discussed the public distribution system (PDS) under reviving strategy, and the recovery food supply framework is proposed to overcome COVID-19 impact by highlighting fundamental activities.

The e-commerce supply chain inventory pledge financing model based on Internet of Things (IoT) technology has effectively reduced the market risk of the supply chain. It is necessary to continuously strengthen the application of IoT technology in e-commerce supply chain finance. Supply chain of e-commerce platforms based on the IoT technology suffers less risk in losses.

The Covid-19 epidemic has strongly affected the lives and economies of the countries all over the world, generating numerous challenges for private, public, and business entities. Massive quarantines have been implemented globally that stopped most of the interactions between people, which is popularly referred to as social distancing.

As consumer shopping preferences shift from traditional retail channels toward e-commerce, the negative effects of e-commerce are easy to see and are often noted in the popular press. Yet, the benefits of this shift are often unseen. In this article, we first consider empirical evidence that suggests technological innovation is generally a net positive for society.

Factors for sustainable e-commerce development in the EU cities was indicated. A Promethee technic for measuring the sustainability of e-commerce was applied. An increase in online shopping in cities may affect environmental degradation. The e-commerce market in cities is currently one of the fastest-growing markets. By observing the current changes taking place in it, we have a unique opportunity to learn about its potential development directions in the future with great acceleration.

Examining how value dimensions shape mobile shoppers’ motivations across nine countries. Analyzing differential effects of hedonic and utilitarian motivations on mobile shopping behaviors. Examining the role of the mobile commerce readiness stage in intentional and habitual use of mobile commerce. Mobile--> commerce (m-commerce) has become increasingly important for organizations attempting to grow revenue by expanding into international markets.

The study seeks to answer the question of what strategic directions and opportunities we have for business in the midst of the info-communication changes of our time. In this research, we compare the results of non-representative primary research (cluster analysis and discriminant analysis) with the factors and latest methods of e-commerce or even mobile commerce and traditional commerce and their main differences.

There is an urgent need in the field of international entrepreneurship to elucidate how SMEs can pursue new opportunities in a digital international business environment. The purpose of this study is to examine, by using effectuation theory, the processes by which retail SMEs develop international e-commerce in foreign markets.

Cloud computing is one of the most powerful inventions that has grabbed the curiosity of technologists all around the world. Cloud computing has many advantages, but it also has a slew of security risks that no organization can afford to ignore. For a successful Cloud Computing adoption in a corporation, proper planning and awareness of emerging risks, threats, vulnerabilities, and potential solutions are necessary.

A seemingly endless supply chain crunch has fueled interest in tech that promises to track problems or predict where new ones might occur. THE SUPPLY CHAIN is in chaos—and it’s getting worse. Air freight warehouses at Shanghai Pudong Airport are log-jammed as a result of strict Covid testing protocols imposed on China’s biggest city following a local outbreak.

In order to quantify and better understand the impact supply chain incidents have on today’s consumers, Sisu commissioned The Harris Poll to ​​conduct a study of more than 2,000 US adults on Supply Chain Consumer Impact & Sentiment. The results were then explored and analyzed using Sisu’s Decision Intelligence Engine to reveal how supply chain issues impact consumer opinion as well as a few simple ways retailers can regain consumer loyalty.

Almost 100 days ago, California Gov. Gavin Newsom tapped Apple’s Tim Cook, Disney’s Bob Iger, former Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen and scores of other business and labor luminaries to chart the state’s economic recovery.

The public is still waiting for a road map.

Forget the notion of a V-shaped recovery. Unemployment leveled off around 16% in May, but a retreat to isolation and the end of some relief funds could lengthen the state’s economic recovery — and deepen inequality.

Sub-topics: New Revenues Without Raising Taxes; Support for Small Business; Protections for Working Families; Investments in our Green Economy

You better watch out, you better not cry, you better not pout—or maybe you should. Millions of dollars' worth of holiday presents and other goods Americans have ordered are stuck on giant container ships, waiting for a space to unload at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach. Call it a case of Freight Expectations. There's so much cargo arriving from Asia, that some of it has been diverted to other ports in the country.

Demand surges and an extraordinary breakdown in global supply chains are raising the cost of everything from fertilizers to silicon chips. Repairing and restructuring supply chains will take many months and major investments. But companies can use strategic pricing now to manage rising costs, product shortages and severe delays—while maintaining or even expanding margins.

As the Covid-19 pandemic shakes the global economy and disrupts the way we live, work, and conduct business, leaders are scrambling to manage the immediate fallout. But, as history proves, it’s also necessary to prepare for what’s next.

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Californians have been staying home and saving lives since the start of our statewide stay-at-home order issued on March 19, 2020. These efforts have allowed the state to move forward on our roadmap for modifying the statewide order.

On June 18, 2020, CDPH issued Guidance on the Use of Face Coverings, which broadly requires the use of face coverings in California when in public or common spaces. Complete details, including all requirements and exceptions to these rules, can be found in the guidance.

Throughout the response to the COVID-19 crisis, City, County and State governments have worked together to safeguard the lives and livelihoods of Angelenos and all Californians. Our goal is to help workers and businesses take responsible steps toward resuming work, serving customers and rebuilding our economy.

Gov. Gavin Newsom and California health officials on Monday released guidelines for places of worship to reopen amid the coronavirus pandemic, while “strongly” recommending that churches continue to hold services remotely.

Stay Home. Practice Physical Distancing. We are enlisting all Californians to help inform the development of guidance for sectors across our economy. This guidance will provide a framework for how to safely re-open.

Food systems are fundamental to human health and flourishing and constitute one of the major pathways of human impact on the environment.

The center has resources for businesses as well as employees to help during the COVID-19 emergency.

Currently Senate Republicans are offering a proposal to reduce this weekly $600 supplement to closer to $200. This is better than allowing the $600 benefit to go all the way to zero, but this would still lead to GDP that was lower by 2.5% a year from now, and, would lead to 3.4 million fewer jobs created over the next year.

The COVID-19 crisis is unlike any Canada has faced in the last century. It has forced all but the most essential in-person shared services and supports to cease and many workplaces have ceased work altogether.

The Golden State has no peers when it comes to expanding GDP, raising household income, investing in innovation and a host of other key metrics.

State lawmakers have just five weeks to come up with solutions to massive pandemic-related problems and prevent Californians of all stripes — tenants, landlords, small-business owners, essential workers — from falling off the edge of a cliff.

Enforcement of coronavirus orders is ramping up across California as the state broke its single-day record for deaths twice this week amid a series of outbreaks in essential workplaces.

In a modern turbulent economic environment, strengthening the principle of quasi-stability, globalization and competition, corporate social responsibility is becoming a driving force in establishing
market proportions and business development prospects.

Elected officials, union leaders, industry representatives and environmentalists are expressing concern about the hundreds of workers set to lose their jobs at California's fourth-largest refinery in the coming months.

California is monitoring COVID-19 closely in each local community and keeping the public informed. We’re teaming up with counties to fight it with every tool we have: current local data, testing, contact tracing, infection control, emergency supplies, containment measures, and more.

Blockchain technology can reduce transaction costs, produce distributed trust, and empower new business models.  In the financial industry, blockchain technology allows for the rise of decentralized financial services and business models.

Opening bars and bringing back football teams have lead to new outbreaks. Communities that evolved around campuses face potentially existential losses in population, jobs and revenue.