SESAME: Exploring small businesses' behaviour to enhance resilience to flooding
SESAME: Exploring small businesses' behaviour to enhance resilience to flooding
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SESAME：探索小企业的行为以增强抵御洪水的能力
DOI：
10.1051/e3sconf/20160708011
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2016
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Coates G
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Coates G
在英国，中小企业 (SME) 约占企业总数的 99.9%、就业人口的 60% 和年营业额的 47%。然而，尽管中小企业对经济做出了重要贡献，但对这种规模的企业的研究仍然不足，在理解从洪水事件发生到“恢复”正常运营期间洪水造成的破坏如何对中小企业产生影响方面存在很大差距。业务连续性管理是一种公认的增强组织应对重大干扰的弹性的方法（ISO 22301、2012）。然而，文献中尚未充分探讨这种在中小企业中建立这种抵御能力的战略方法，可供借鉴的经验数据范围有限。本文概述了由英国工程和物理科学研究委员会资助的跨学科研究项目 SESAME，该项目研究中小企业对洪水的运营响应和准备情况。此外，SESAME 包括四个研究领域，汇集了许多学科，包括基于代理的建模和仿真、洪水建模、业务连续性管理、经济建模和行为科学。本文概述了 SESAME 项目中旨在增强中小企业抗洪能力的不同研究立场。
In the United Kingdom, small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) account for approximately 99.9% of businesses, 60% of the working population and 47% annual turnover. However, despite the important contribution that SMEs make to the economy, this size of business remains under-researched with a significant gap in understanding how the disruption caused by flooding impacts on SMEs from the time at which a flood event occurs through to the ‘return’ to normal operations. Business continuity management is a recognised approach for enhancing organisational resilience to major disruptions (ISO 22301, 2012). However, this strategic approach to building such resilience in SMEs is under-explored in the literature with a limited range of empirical data to draw on. This paper presents an overview of an inter-disciplinary research project funded by the UK’s Engineering and Physical Science Research Council, called SESAME, which examines SMEs’ operational response and preparedness to flooding. Furthermore, SESAME consists of four stands of research which bring together a number of disciplines including agent based modelling and simulation, flood modelling, business continuity management, economic modelling and behavioural science. This paper provides an overview of the different research stands within the SESAME project aimed at enhancing SMEs’ resilience to flooding.