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Community resilience to natural disasters: the role of disaster entrepreneurship

Abstract

Purpose The paper aims to examine the conditions under which disaster entrepreneurship contributes to community-level resilience. The authors define disaster entrepreneurship as attempts by the private sector to create or maintain value during and in the immediate aftermath of a natural disaster by taking advantage of business opportunities and providing goods and services required by community stakeholders. Design/methodology/approach This …

Authors

Linnenluecke MK; McKnight B

Journal

Journal of Enterprising Communities People and Places in the Global Economy, Vol. 11, No. 1, pp. 166–185

Publisher

Emerald

Publication Date

March 13, 2017

DOI

10.1108/jec-01-2015-0005

ISSN

1750-6204