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A pandemic is dynamic: Viewing COVID-19 through an adaptation lens

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 May 2021

Sjir Uitdewilligen*
Affiliation:
Maastricht University, The Netherlands
Ramón Rico
Affiliation:
Department of Business Administration, University Carlos III de Madrid, Madrid Department of Management and Organisations, University of Western Australia
Marie Thommes
Affiliation:
Maastricht University, The Netherlands
Mary J. Waller
Affiliation:
Neeley School of Business, College of Business, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, USA
*
*Corresponding author. Email: sjir.uitdewilligen@maastrichtuniversity.nl

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© The Author(s), 2021. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology.

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Footnotes

Research was sponsored by the U.S. Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences (ARI) and was accomplished under Grant Number W911NF-16-1-0545. The views and conclusions contained in this document are those of the authors and should not be interpreted as representing the official policies, either expressed or implied, of the U.S. Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences (ARI) or the U.S. Government.

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