Login
Guest
Search for:
Browse:
Product Information:
Resources:
International Research in the Business Disciplines
ISSN: 1074-7877
Series editor(s): Professor Craig S. Galbraith
Subject Area: Management Science/Management Studies
Content: Series Volumes | 
Current Volume RSS
Options: To add Favourites and Table of Contents Alerts please take a Emerald profile
Document request:
Disasters and Entrepreneurship: A Short Review
| Title: | Disasters and Entrepreneurship: A Short Review |
|---|---|
| Author(s): | Craig S. Galbraith, Curt H. Stiles |
| Volume: | 5 Editor(s): Craig S. Galbraith, Curt H. Stiles ISBN: 978-0-76231-358-7 eISBN: 978-1-84950-452-2 |
| Citation: | Craig S. Galbraith, Curt H. Stiles (2006), Disasters and Entrepreneurship: A Short Review, in Craig S. Galbraith, Curt H. Stiles (ed.) Developmental Entrepreneurship: Adversity, Risk, and Isolation (International Research in the Business Disciplines, Volume 5), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, pp.147-166 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/S1074-7877(06)05008-2 (Permanent URL) |
| Publisher: | Emerald Group Publishing Limited |
| Article type: | Chapter Item |
| Extract: | It is well recognized that disasters, whether naturally occurring or the result of human invention, affect a region on many levels. Not only are disasters felt within the painful context of human tragedy, loss of life, and physical suffering, but disasters can also destroy the immediate socio-economic fabric of the affected population as well as the ability of a region to sustain itself during the slow process of recovery and reconstruction. As Newton (1997) notes, “disasters are not isolated from the social structure within which they occur; rather, they are social phenomena” (p. 219). |
Fulltext Options:
Purchase
Downloadable; Printable; Owned
HTML, PDF (175kb)
To purchase this item please login or register.
Recommend to your librarian
Complete and print this form to request this document from your librarian
|
|
