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ArticleCanadian public policy. Analyse de politiques2022

A Machine-Learning Analysis of the Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Small Business Owners and Implications for Canadian Government Policy Response.

Diane A Isabelle, Yu Jade Han, Mika Westerlund

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Article in Canadian public policy. Analyse de politiques, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3citing papers in PubMed
3.6field-weighted citation impact, top 7% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed, 13 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Diane A IsabelleSprott School of Business, Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, and Department of Business Management, School of Management, University of Johannesburg, Johannesburg, South Africa.
Yu Jade HanFaculty of Business Administration, University of Regina, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada.
Mika WesterlundSprott School of Business, Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
Carleton University · CAUniversity of Johannesburg · ZAUniversity of Regina · CA

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This study applies a machine-learning technique to a dataset of 38,000 textual comments from Canadian small business owners on the impacts of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Topic modelling revealed seven topics covering the short- and longer-term impacts of the pandemic, government relief programs and loan eligibility issues, mental health, and other impacts on business owners. The results emphasize the importance of policy response in aiding small business crisis management and offer implications for theory and policy. Moreover, the study provides an example of using a machine-learning-based automated content analysis in the fields of crisis management, small business, and public policy.

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CanadaCOVID-19 crisis managementimpactssmall businesstopic modelling

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PMID36039356
PMCPMC9395163
OpenAlexW4206770589

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