The behavioral aspects of innovation in the age of pandemic

In nowadays’ ever-changing business environment, innovation plays a critical role in enabling organizational growth and adaptability to sustain the competitive advantages of businesses. A moving-forward business spirit and philosophy, filled with innovativeness, surpasses the thresholds of perceptible functionality and enhances the ability of businesses to adapt to the disruptive environment of the last decades. Innovative strategic reorientation is deemed necessary in business management to support a total transformation in organizational culture. This outcome can be realized through multiple approaches, including the collaboration of technology and human capital.Following the call by extant research to discover new ways of overcoming the theorizing and methodological fetishism that span various domains, our management focus section sought to promote the knowledge on the behavioral aspects of innovation in organizations within the context of the pandemic, with particular emphasis on its precursors and outcomes, with the key goal of shedding light on the aforementioned relationships and laying groundwork for theorizing at both the micro- and the macro-levels.Our editorial showcases four articles that illustrate organizational arrangements intended to foster organizational innovation, talent acquisition techniques during global disruptions and changes, factors that promote the innovative work behavior in turbulent eras, the governmental policies during the COVID-19 crisis to support entrepreneurial growth, and finally which are the leadership styles that allow concentration on innovative work, shedding light on the integration of management and human resources collaboration.