Agile Learning and Management in a Digital Age

Chapter 10 Agile learning and management in times of crisis in the digital age Actor-reality construction in the COVID-19 pandemic

Tuomas Korhonen, Fabio Magnacca, Ossi Heino, Teemu Laine, Jakob Liboriussen, and Hanne Nørreklit

DOI: 10.4324/9781003188728-12

Introduction

While the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic are felt virtually everywhere and by everyone, there is no common body that would define and coordinate all the necessary responses. The problem is global, but the responses are both global and local. This means we need both generic and particular sense-making, learning, and responses regarding the pandemic. The generic ones – provided by worldwide organizations such as the World Health Organization and researchers of medicine ...