Economic crises, natural disasters, armed conflict and infectious disease outbreaks,
amongst others, present interlinked challenges for small businesses and have generated a …

Businesses are increasingly subject to disruptions. It is almost impossible to predict their
nature, time and extent. Therefore, organizations need a proactive approach equipped with …

Problem, research strategy, and findings: The process of long-term recovery, if done well,
can minimize post-disaster disruption, address problems that existed before the disaster …

The study of postdisaster recovery is in its infancy, and there is as yet no body of theory to
guide researchers (Alesch 2005; Smith and Wenger 2007; Olshansky and Chang 2009) …

Hurricane Katrina created a catastrophe in the City of New Orleans when the storm surge
caused the levee system to fail on August 29, 2005. The destruction of housing displaced …

The context in which planning operates has changed dramatically in recent years. Economic
processes have become increasingly globalised and economic fortunes have fluctuated …

Exogenous, non-normative shocks to small businesses such as natural disasters have been
understudied. Moreover, most disaster research on small businesses has focused on …

Natural disasters may be windows of opportunity for policy change and learning by local
governments, which are the entities primarily responsible for the recovery and rebuilding …

Shortly after the second major earthquake in Canterbury, New Zealand in 2011, an inventory
of the activities and initiatives of community groups and NGOs was conducted. Another two …

Pakistan suffered large‐scale flooding in summer 2010 that caused damage amounting to
approximately USD 43 billion, claimed the lives of at least 1,700 people, and negatively …