The research is devoted to topical issues related to the organisational and economic support of public administration as a process of preparation, adoption, and implementation of management decisions in a pandemic. The research aims to reveal the peculiarities of management decision-making and public administration in general. The primary methods used to study this issue are analysis, synthesis, thesis and antithesis method, and generalisation. To achieve the research aims, the main issues related to existing innovations in the field of public administration; the importance of organisational and economic support  or public administration in a pandemic; modernised principles and methods of organising the process of preparing, making, and implementing management decisions were addressed. The main directions of the study are determined by the insufficient theoretical and methodological developments of this issue and its growing importance. The study identified the key characteristics of public administration as a process of preparation, adoption, and implementation of management decisions during a pandemic.

Highlights

• The aims of the article are to examine the peculiarities of management decision-making and public administration in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, address the importance of organizational and economic support for public administration during a pandemic, explore existing innovations in public administration, and propose modernized principles and methods for preparing, making, and implementing management decisions.