Business Disruption, Preparedness And Recovery: Lessons From The Northridge Earthquake
Business Disruption, Preparedness And Recovery: Lessons From The Northridge Earthquake
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1997
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K. Tierney;James M. Dahlhamer
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作者：
K. Tierney;James M. Dahlhamer
私营企业如何受到地震和其他灾害的影响以及如何试图从地震和其他灾害中恢复，很少得到经验性的探讨。关于灾害对商业影响的研究结果一般是基于个别案例研究或有限公司的数据，而不是基于大规模调查，研究往往使用有目的或方便的样本，而不是系统地选择样本。然而，在过去的几年里，灾害研究中心一直在开展一项关于企业和灾害的研究计划，其中包括对惠蒂尔海峡地震后小企业管理局贷款决策等主题的大规模研究（Dahlhamer，1992年）;备灾（Tierney和Dahlhamer，1995年; Dahlhamer和D 'Souza，即将出版，1997年）; 1993年中西部洪水后的商业影响和恢复（Tierney，Nigg，and Dahlhamer，1996）;以及商业对灾害引起的生命线服务中断的脆弱性（Tierney and Nigg，1995）。由于其范围和严重性，北岭事件提供了一个机会，以进一步探讨企业对灾害的脆弱性和影响企业灾难恢复的因素。
The ways in which private businesses are affected by and attempt to recover from earthquakes and other disasters have seldom been addressed empirically. Research findings on the business impacts of disasters have generally been based on data from individual case studies or from a limited number of firms, rather than on large-scale surveys, and studies have tended to use purposive or convenience samples, rather than systematically selected ones. Over the past few years, however, the Disaster Research Center has been carrying out a program of research on businesses and hazards that has included large-scale studies on such topics as Small Business Administraton loan decision making following the Whittier Narrows earthquake (Dahlhamer, 1992); disaster preparedness (Tierney and Dahlhamer, 1995; Dahlhamer and D'Souza, forthcoming, 1997); business impacts and recovery following the 1993 Midwest floods (Tierney, Nigg, and Dahlhamer, 1996); and business vulnerability to disaster-induced lifeline service interruption (Tierney and Nigg, 1995). Because of its scope and severity, the Northridge event provided an opportunity to further explore business vulnerability to disasters and the factors that affect business disaster recovery.