Covid Effects on Sales, Size, and Industry in the Minho Border Area

This paper analyses the effect that the COVID pandemic had on border areas due to international border closures, specifically on the ‘Galician wet border’ of the international Spanish-Portuguese border. This research focuses on how the pandemic affects sales, and the factors that condition sales in...

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Autores: Jardón, Carlos, Martínez-Cobas, Xavier, Trillo Santamaría, Juan Manuel, Paül Carril, Valerià
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2025
País:España
Institución:Universidad de Santiago de Compostela (USC)
Repositorio:Minerva. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Santiago de Compostela
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:minerva.usc.gal:10347/41613
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/10347/41613
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:COVID-19
Cross-border region
Industry Effect
Resource-Based View
Regional economy
Spain/Portugal
54 Geografía
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Sumario:This paper analyses the effect that the COVID pandemic had on border areas due to international border closures, specifically on the ‘Galician wet border’ of the international Spanish-Portuguese border. This research focuses on how the pandemic affects sales, and the factors that condition sales in border areas. The results show that, although COVID had a significant impact on sales in all the municipalities analysed, there are no significant differences between border and non-border municipalities. They also suggest that in the case of pandemics, the industrial organisation theory offers a better paradigm for action than the resource-based view theory.