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Food Retail Resilience Pre-, during, and Post-COVID-19: A Bibliometric Analysis and Research Agenda
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This paper aims to conduct a bibliometric mapping and systematic review of the food retail industry's resilience strategy in the context of COVID-19. Specifically, we aim to identify relevant research gaps in the industry during the pre-, during, and post-pandemic periods and highlight the differences between B2B and B2C sectors. We analyzed articles in the Scopus database from 2019 to 2022 using the PRISMA method for article selection, resulting in a total of 69 articles. We employed a VOS viewer for bibliometric mapping. Our analysis revealed that most studies focused on the impact of COVID-19, with only a few examining the pre- and post-pandemic periods critically. In the B2C context, we identified two major topics: changes in purchasing and consumption behavior, and food waste and safety. In the B2B sector, the two most recurrent subjects were retailers' strategies and supply chain management. This study provides valuable insights for policymakers by exploring industry trends and for scholars by highlighting future research agendas based on the identified topics.
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“with heightened health consciousness emerging as a key driver of purchase decisions [1,2,3,4,5,6]”
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“Additionally, the Technology Acceptance Model [20], can serve as a valuable tool for analyzing changes in consumer behaviors.”
MethodFirm Resources and Sustained Competitive Advantage
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BackgroundSoftware survey: VOSviewer, a computer program for bibliometric mapping
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Preferred reporting items for systematic reviews and meta-analyses: The PRISMA statement
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“To achieve this goal, we followed the PRISMA guidelines introduced by Moher et al. [7].”
MethodBurgos, D., & Ivanov, D. (2021) · Transportation Research Part E Logistics and Transportation Review · doi:10.1016/j.tre.2021.102412 · Cited by 490 · cited 2×
“The German behind is the article by Burgos and Ivanov [11], entitled ‘Food retail supply chain resilience Food Online Retail’ by Dannenberg [10] has received the highest number of citations, with a total of 138 according to SCOPUS data, yet no reciprocal links were found.”
How Technology is Changing Retail
Shankar, V., Kalyanam, K., Setia, P., Golmohammadi, A., Tirunillai, S., Douglass, T., Hennessey, J., Bull, J. S., & Waddoups, R. (2021) · Journal of Retailing · doi:10.1016/j.jretai.2020.10.006 · Cited by 438 · cited 1×
“Studies on purchasing behavior have explored the adoption and usage of new technologies, particularly delivery services, that were necessitated by the pandemic [15,16,53,83–85], as well as identifying factors that have influenced changing consumer behavior [62,68,70,73,86,87].”
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Digital Transition by COVID‐19 Pandemic? The German Food Online Retail
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“…begun to increasingly use online delivery services and the leading retail players have been able to deliver goods through their delivery services or third-party on-demand courier companies, consumers’ buying power has decreased and they have tried to save and plan their daily purchases [4, 18-20].”
Unveiling the Impacts of Food Security on Community Health: A Scoping Review
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“The approach enables thorough investigation into literature, giving a complete assessment of bibliographic data (Pop et al. 2024, Catrina and Ghigiu, 2024).”
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“Topics such as organic food, food waste, sustainable development and food security, purchasing or consumption conduct (Pop et al., 2024), organic products, the effect of a sustainable diet on the food chain, carbon footprint then greenhouse gas emissions from food production and consumption,…”
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“Even more advanced techniques, such as reinforcement learning (RL), typically are applied in solitary applications, such as inventory optimization or dynamic pricing and are seldom combined within a unified framework [9].”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Pop, R.-A., Dabija, D.-C., & Pocol, C. B.
- Affiliations
- Babeș-Bolyai University (RO)
- University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine of Cluj-Napoca (RO)
- Corresponding author
- Dabija, Dan-Cristian
- Pocol, Cristina Bianca
- Venue
- Foods
- Publisher
- MDPI AG
- Published
- 2024-01-13
- Volume
- 13
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 257
- ISSN
- 2304-8158 (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC10815137
- OpenAlex
- W4390879978
- Cited by
- 12
- References
- 91
- Citations by year
- 2026: 4 · 2025: 3 · 2024: 5
- FWCI
- 1.32
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- gold
- doi.org
- Licence
- Locations
- Foods (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion, cc-by-sa)
- Funders
- CNCS-UEFISCDI (PNIII-RU-TE-2021-0795)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Economics, Econometrics and Finance › Economics and Econometrics › COVID-19 Pandemic Impacts
- Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Strategy and Management › Supply Chain Resilience and Risk Management
- Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Marketing › Consumer Retail Behavior Studies
- Keywords
- food retail, business resilience, COVID-19 pandemic, consumer purchasing behavior, food waste, food safety, supply chain management, retail strategy, research gaps
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