Academic contributions on the COVID-19 pandemic and its consequences continue apace. As with most disciplines, scholars working in the organization sciences have turned their attention to this extraordinary phenomenon and have offered an array of insights designed to assist our understanding and management of the altered circumstances and attendant complexity thrown up by it. Based on a preliminary analysis of a corpus of scholarship published in selected Management and HRM journals, in this presentation, Professor Michael Morley will landscape the contours of this evolving body of work and its underlying intellectual structure. Through a performance analysis, he will identify key elements of the anatomy of the knowledge base built thus far, while in a textual analysis he will outline focal topics and shared qualities characterizing the contributions. Following this exposition and classification of the scholarship, he will turn to the identification of a series of research opportunities designed to either deepen recently established lines of inquiry or open up new ones of relevance to addressing the ongoing work, workplace, and work-life challenges that have arisen from the Covid 19 pandemic.

Professor Michael Morley holds the chair in management at the Kemmy Business School, University of Limerick, Ireland. His research interests encompass international, comparative, and cross-cultural HRM, which he explores at different levels. He has published several books with, among others, Butterworth-Heinemann, Oxford University Press, Palgrave Macmillan, and Routledge. His journal articles have appeared in a range of outlets in international business, management, organizational psychology and human resource management including Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of World Business, British Journal of Management, European Management Journal, Group & Organization Management, Human Relations, Personnel Psychology, European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology, Human Resource Management, Human Resource Management Journal, Human Resource Management Review, and the International Journal of Human Resource Management. He is the current editor-in-chief of European Management Review, the journal of the European Academy of Management, and serves on the Editorial Boards of several other journals. He was elected as the 2007–2010 chair of the Irish Academy of Management and the 2012–2014 president of the International Federation of Scholarly Associations of Management. He is a Fellow of the Irish Academy.

Moderator: Maral Muratbekova-Touron, Professor, Department of Management, ESCP Business School, Paris, France.