Macro level factors influencing strategic responses to emergent pandemics: A scoping review.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Strategic planning is critical for successful pandemic management. This study aimed to identify and review the scope and analytic depth of situation analyses conducted to understand their utility, and capture the documented macro-level factors impacting pandemic management.

Methods

To synthesise this disparate body of literature, we adopted a two-step search and review process. A systematic search of the literature was conducted to identify all studies since 2000, that have 1) employed a situation analysis; and 2) examined contextual factors influencing pandemic management. The included studies are analysed using a seven-domain systems approach from the discipline of strategic management.

Results

Nineteen studies were included in the final review ranging fr

SUBMITTER: Zhu NJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8248748 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature