Business recovery from disasters: Lessons from natural hazards and the COVID-19 pandemic.

ABSTRACT: This paper compares economic recovery in the COVID-19 pandemic with other types of disasters, at the scale of businesses. As countries around the world struggle to emerge from the pandemic, studies of business impact and recovery have proliferated; however, pandemic research is often undertaken without the benefit of insights from long-standing research on past large-scale disruptive events, such as floods, storms, and earthquakes. This paper builds synergies between established knowledge on business recovery in disasters and emerging insights from the COVID-19 pandemic. It first proposes a disaster event taxonomy that allows the pandemic to be compared with natural hazard events from the perspective of economic disruption. The paper then identifies five key lessons on business recovery fr

SUBMITTER: Chang SE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9300585 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature