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      The impact of COVID-19 on small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs): empirical evidence for green economic implications

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          Small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in China have been hit hard by the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak, which has jeopardized their going out of business altogether. As a result, this research will shed light on the long-term impacts of COVID-19 lockdown on small businesses worldwide. The information was gathered through a survey questionnaire that 313 people completed. Analyzing the model was accomplished through the use of SEM in this investigation. Management and staff at SMEs worldwide provided the study’s data sources. Research shows that COVID-19 has a significantly bad influence on profitability, operational, economic, and access to finance. In the study’s findings, outside funding aids have played an important role in SMEs’ skill to persist and succeed through technological novelty than in their real output. SME businesses, administrations, and policymakers need to understand the implications of this study’s results.

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            Nexus between air pollution and NCOV-2019 in China: Application of negative binomial regression analysis

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              Perception-based influence factors of intention to adopt COVID-19 epidemic prevention in China

              Munir Ahmad, Khadeeja Iram, Gul Jabeen (2020)
              Background The researches investigating the influence factors of epidemic prevention are not only scarce, but also provide a gap in the domain of perception-based influence factors of intention to adopt COVID-19 epidemic prevention. Objective This work has attempted to examine the perception-based influence factors of individuals’ intention to adopt COVID-19 epidemic prevention in a modified behavioral framework. Theoretical framework A behavioral framework composed of the theory of reasoned action and the theory of planned behavior is developed to incorporate some additional perception-based influence factors. Methods A partial least square-based path analysis has been employed to estimate the path coefficients of those factors in terms of drivers, barriers, and neutral factors based on questionnaire data of 302 respondents from six universities and two hospitals in China. Results Among the perception-based influence factors, governments’ guidelines on epidemic prevention is found to be the most important and influential factor, which was followed by risk perception. Finally, attitude towards epidemic prevention exhibited the least degree of impact on individuals’ intention to adopt epidemic prevention. Moral norms did not show any contribution to individuals’ intention to adopt epidemic prevention. Conclusion Concerning importance ranking, the governments’ guidelines on epidemic prevention, risk perception, and epidemic knowledge are revealed as the top three drivers of individuals’ intention to adopt epidemic prevention, while the perceived feasibility to adopt epidemic prevention is found to be a barrier. Moreover, moral norms is identified to have an insignificant influence on individuals’ intention to adopt epidemic prevention. Given the empirical results, dissemination of Governments’ guidelines on epidemic prevention, proper risk perception, and knowledge about epidemic would help prevent the COVID-19 pandemic outbreak within China and worldwide.
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                Contributors
                Lijie Du: dulijie@yahoo.com
                Asif Razzaq: asifrazzaq@mail.dlut.edu.cn
                Muhammad Waqas: maharwaqas67@gmail.com
                Journal
                Journal ID (nlm-ta): Environ Sci Pollut Res Int
                Journal ID (iso-abbrev): Environ Sci Pollut Res Int
                Title: Environmental Science and Pollution Research International
                Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg (Berlin/Heidelberg )
                ISSN (Print): 0944-1344
                ISSN (Electronic): 1614-7499
                Publication date (Electronic): 2 August 2022
                Pages: 1-22
                Affiliations
                [1 ]GRID grid.495269.5, Sichuan Tourism University, ; Chengdu, China
                [2 ]GRID grid.445020.7, ISNI 0000 0004 0385 9160, Faculty of Business, , City University of Macau, ; Macau, China
                [3 ]GRID grid.30055.33, ISNI 0000 0000 9247 7930, School of Economics and Management, , Dalian University of Technology, ; Dalian, 116000 People’s Republic of China
                [4 ]GRID grid.411501.0, ISNI 0000 0001 0228 333X, Schools of Economics, , Bahauddin Zakariya University, ; Multan, Pakistan
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                Responsible Editor: Philippe Garrigues

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                Publisher ID: 22221
                DOI: 10.1007/s11356-022-22221-7
                PMC ID: 9344445
                PubMed ID: 35917071
                SO-VID: b429e911-fcc2-494f-be3b-8f3e5f8dde85
                Copyright © © The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature 2022, Springer Nature or its licensor holds exclusive rights to this article under a publishing agreement with the author(s) or other rightsholder(s); author self-archiving of the accepted manuscript version of this article is solely governed by the terms of such publishing agreement and applicable law.
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                This article is made available via the PMC Open Access Subset for unrestricted research re-use and secondary analysis in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for the duration of the World Health Organization (WHO) declaration of COVID-19 as a global pandemic.

                History
                Date received : 4 June 2022
                Date accepted : 21 July 2022
                Categories
                Subject: Research Article

                ScienceOpen disciplines: General environmental science
                Keywords: covid-19,sustainable business practices,sme,technology innovation,access to finance
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                ScienceOpen disciplines: General environmental science
                Keywords: covid-19, sustainable business practices, sme, technology innovation, access to finance

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