Gender Diversity and Resilience in Firms During COVID-19 Pandemic

ABSTRACT

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.