Gender Diversity and Resilience in Firms During COVID-19 Pandemic

The general objective of the paper is to identify how gender diversity can enable resilience in firms. The pandemic constitutes a sui generis contingency factor that had not yet been concretely taken into consideration in the research field of the relationship between gender diversity and resilience. Recently, the Covid-19 crisis has been a major concern for companies around the world. Specifically, what caught our attention were the distinctive features of the phenomenon compared to other traumatic events that have occurred in the past. On the other hand, companies have shown a different way and capacity to react and respond to the crisis generated by the pandemic. Therefore, many researchers are investigating the impact that the crisis has had and is having in different economic areas, in terms of costs, sectors affected, etc. This research work considers the implications of the pandemic on firms. From a methodological point of view, the analysis is carried out as a qualitative case study;the approach is particularly useful for responding to "how” and "why” questions about a contemporary set of events. The conclusion from this empirical study is open to interpretation. © The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022.

Cyber security in the age of covid 19 pandemic: An empirical model to manage the risk in banks

This paper examines cyber security issue in banks during Covid 19 pandemic. The objective of the work is to propose a model for the management and control of cyberisk, based on the identification of the most complete methods of evaluation, in qualitative and quantitative terms, and thus able to better describe the possible impacts of its manifestation on the bank's business. The document provides some answers to the issues of covid-19 impact on bank's cyber security and the possibility to define a cyberisk governance structure able to support the challenges and the new policies to include in the Risk appetite framework, for more incisive mitigation of cyberisk during the pandemic. This study applies a case study approach. It is based on quantitative data and qualitative information obtained through semi-structured interviews and questionnaires addressed to the chief risk officer and its officers for operational and IT risk. The research contributes to the literature by proposing a framework for the management and control of cyber risk based on a mapping of IT assets and operational risk and their relationships. © WMSCI 2021.All right reserved.