E-Business in Pandemic Context - A Systematic Literature Review

Barros, Miguel; Mesquita, Anabela

The world changed with the spreading of the new Coronavirus, considered by the World Health Organization as a Pandemic. Economies stopped, hospitals and morgues got overcrowded, economic indicators abruptly deteriorated, people found themselves confined to their houses. This times challenge organizations by guiding them to reinvent themselves in order to survive. This study focuses on the identification and explanation of the Systematic Literature Review Methodology, to survey the State of the Art regarding the adoption of E-Business Models by Portuguese Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises, forced to rethink their activity, given the restrictive measures taken to face the Pandemic. It is explained how the works in this area will be researched, selected and referred in the future study of investigation. The aim of the study is to evaluate the idea of how an e-business model can become vital, if implemented, in a Portuguese SME, with the current situation.