Purpose

This study aims to explore the effects of the COVID-19 outbreak on exports of goods and services, logistics performance, environmental management system (ISO 14001) certification and quality management system (ISO 9001) certification in top affected Asian countries of India, Iran, Indonesia, Philippines, Bangladesh and Pakistan.

Design/methodology/approach

A novel grey relational analysis models’ approach is used to examine the inter-relationship between COVID-19 economic growth and environmental performance. Moreover, the authors applied a conservative (maximin) model to investigate which countries have the least intensifying affected among all of the top affected COVID-19 Asian countries based on the SS degree of grey relation values. The data used in this study was collected from multiple databases during 2020 for analysis.

Findings

Results indicate that the severity of COVID-19 shows a strong negative association and influence of COVID-19 on the exportation of goods and services, logistics performance, ISO 9001 and ISO 14001 certifications in all the six highly affected countries during a pandemic outbreak. Although the adverse effects of COVID-19 in exporting countries persisted until December 31, 2020, their magnitude decreased over time in Indonesia and Pakistan. During the COVID-19 outbreak, Pakistan showed comparatively better performance among the six top highly affected Asian countries due to its smart locked down strategy and prevents its economy from severe damages. While India and Iran export drastically go down due to a rapid increase in the number of COVID-19 cases and deaths.

Research limitations/implications

The research findings produce much-required policy suggestions for leaders, world agencies and governments to take corrective measures on an emergent basis to prevent the economies from more damages and improve their logistics, environmental and quality performance during the pandemic of COVID-19.

Originality/value

This study develops a framework and investigates the intensifying effects of COVID-19 effects on economic growth, logistics performance, environmental performance and quality production processes.

中文翻译：

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COVID-19 对经济增长、物流绩效、环境可持续性和质量管理的强化影响：来自亚洲国家的证据

目的

本研究旨在探讨 COVID-19 疫情对印度、伊朗等亚洲受影响最大国家的商品和服务出口、物流绩效、环境管理体系 (ISO 14001) 认证和质量管理体系 (ISO 9001) 认证的影响，印度尼西亚、菲律宾、孟加拉国和巴基斯坦。

设计/方法/方法

一种新颖的灰色关联分析模型方法用于检查 COVID-19 经济增长与环境绩效之间的相互关系。此外，作者应用了一个保守（最大）模型，根据灰色关联值的 SS 度值，调查在所有受影响最大的 COVID-19 亚洲国家中哪些国家的影响最小。本研究中使用的数据是在 2020 年期间从多个数据库中收集的，用于分析。

发现

结果表明，在大流行爆发期间，COVID-19 的严重性表明 COVID-19 对所有六个高度受影响国家的商品和服务出口、物流绩效、ISO 9001 和 ISO 14001 认证具有强烈的负面关联和影响。尽管 COVID-19 对出口国的不利影响一直持续到 2020 年 12 月 31 日，但其在印度尼西亚和巴基斯坦的影响随着时间的推移而下降。在 COVID-19 爆发期间，由于其明智的锁定战略并防止其经济遭​​受严重损害，巴基斯坦在六个受影响最大的亚洲国家中表现出相对较好的表现。而印度和伊朗的出口由于 COVID-19 病例和死亡人数的迅速增加而急剧下降。

研究限制/影响

研究结果为领导人、世界机构和政府提供了急需的政策建议，以便在 COVID-19 大流行期间紧急采取纠正措施，以防止经济遭受更多损害并改善其物流、环境和质量绩效。

原创性/价值

本研究制定了一个框架，并调查了 COVID-19 对经济增长、物流绩效、环境绩效和质量生产过程的影响的强化影响。