Community business resilience: adaptation practice of micro- and small enterprises around the Pearl River Estuary
Community business resilience: adaptation practice of micro- and small enterprises around the Pearl River Estuary
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社区商业韧性：珠江口周边小微企业的适应实践
DOI：
10.1007/s10584-019-02562-y
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发表时间：
2019
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影响因子：
4.8
通讯作者：
L. T. Cheung
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作者：
A. Lo;Alice S. Y. Chow;Shuwen Liu;L. T. Cheung
小型社区企业首当其冲地受到气候变化的影响。对这类企业的脆弱性和复原力的研究主要集中在公司一级的特点和组织问题上。这篇文章解决了缺乏个人层面的考虑。它探索了一种分析方法，利用社会资本和地方感的概念来理解社区企业对极端天气的适应能力。一项实证研究被用来调查这些概念的属性是否以及如何与适应实践相关。这项研究是基于对珠江口周围暴露在风暴潮中的不同地点的社区企业进行的结构化问卷调查。这些发现部分支持了这样一种假设，即当社会资本强大时，更有可能采取行动。当社区企业的所有者或经营者感觉到社会期望较高时，他们更有可能采取适应策略，但当他们与周围的人关系更好时，他们不太可能这样做。这项研究指出了良好社会关系驱动的道德风险的可能性，并支持了对小型社区企业作为企业和社会代理人在应对气候变化影响方面的理解。有必要认识到小企业在适应和风险调整方面的合理性的社会层面，并通过社会机构加强它们对社区适应的参与。
Small community businesses bear the brunt of climate change impacts. Studies of the vulnerability and resilience of such businesses predominantly focus on firm-level characteristics and organizational issues. This paper addresses the lack of individual-level considerations. It explores an analytical approach that draws upon the concepts of social capital and sense of place for understanding community businesses’ resilience to extreme weather. An empirical study was conducted to investigate whether and how the attributes of these concepts are related to adaptation practice. This study is based on a structured questionnaire survey of community businesses at various locations around the Pearl River Estuary that are exposed to storm surges. The findings partially support the hypothesis that action is more likely to be taken when social capital is strong. Community businesses are more likely to adopt adaptation strategies when their owners or operators perceive a higher level of social expectation, but are less likely to do so when they have better relationships with the people around them. This study indicated the potential for moral hazard driven by good social relationships and supported the understanding of small community businesses as firms and social agents in responding to climate change impacts. There is a need for recognizing the social dimensions of small businesses’ rationality in their adaptation and hazard adjustment, and strengthening their engagement with community-based adaptation through social institutions.