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标题：Innovations in the T&L (Transport and Logistics) Sector during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Sweden, Germany and Poland
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作者：Monika Klein ; Ewelina Gutowska ; Piotr Gutowski 等
期刊名称：Sustainability
印刷版ISSN：2071-1050
出版年度：2022
卷号：14
期号：6
页码：3323
DOI：10.3390/su14063323
语种：English
出版社：MDPI, Open Access Journal
摘要：Innovation is one of the most important factors stimulating the economy. It plays a special role in the Transport and Logistics (T&L) sector as it enables the acceleration of meeting needs process. During the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic, many industries were and still are facing a tough economic test. The recession is also noticeable in transport, freight forwarding and logistics. However, how does this sector cope with the existing problems? Has the adoption rate of innovation been stopped in this sector? Do T&L developers see the potential of innovations and do they see them as a remedy and response to the pandemic threat? These issues have been thoroughly considered in the presented publication. The paper presents conclusions and selected results from a study on the adoption of innovations by companies in the transport and logistics sector during the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic in Sweden, Germany and Poland. As many as three research hypotheses were adopted, which after being subjected to statistical fractional verification and evaluated substantively on the basis of the literature review and conclusions of research conducted, proved to be true. The aim of this paper was to verify the principles and determinants of innovation policy in T&L enterprises in selected countries during the pandemic crisis. Moreover, the paper contains an analysis of the entrepreneurs’ experiences in the context of improving and developing their activities during economic crises, e.g., in 2008. It also presents the motivation and methodology of research. In addition to standard quantitative summaries, the authors conducted identification of correlations between the studied phenomena using the Cramer’s V method and chi-square statistics. Obtained results allowed to better understand the processes taking place and to determine the general state and prospects of further innovation development in the T&L sector during the pandemic and ubiquitous restrictions.