Guest editorial: Sustainable business resilience and development in the pandemic economy: insights from organizational and consumer research

Businesses can survive or flourish in this unstable and fragile environment only if they get fresh insights about how the new marketplaces function and how to successfully operate in them (Öberseder et al., 2013). [...]for all organisations hoping to endure and grow in the post-pandemic climate, organisational resilience, based on market knowledge, is a desired, if not an essential, feature. [...]Soultana Anna Toumpalidou and Kleopatra Konstantoulaki, in their paper, tap on the new form of higher education provision in the pandemic economy; more specifically, the authors investigate the effect of attitudes towards distance learning as a drive of university students’ decision-making. To this end, they study 1,550 university students in Greece and reveal three equally sized clusters, namely, technology mature, technology conservatives and sceptics of e-learning, pertaining to their attitudes towards online services provision in the higher education sector. [...]Kavita Sharma and Emmanuel Elioth Lulandala in their comprehensive research explore the impact of Covid-19 on the consumption of Over the Top (OTT) media services in India. [...]Miftachul Huda in his qualitative study examines the initiative of a low-price hotel in Malaysia to restore the financial sustainability through empowering the digital marketplace strategy in the tourism resilience sector during the Covid-19 pandemic.