Organisational Resilience to Compound Events: Wildfire and the COVID-19 Pandemic in the Sierra Nevada Region of California

IF 2.6 3区管理学 Q3 MANAGEMENT

Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management Pub Date : 2025-03-27 DOI:10.1111/1468-5973.70041

Kristin VanderMolen, Tamara U. Wall

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The years 2020 and 2021 mark the two largest wildfire seasons in recorded California state history and the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. This article employs the resilience as meta-capability framework in the study of small- and medium-sized enterprise (SME) response to and recovery from these compound events in the Sierra Nevada region of California, with three aims. The first is to advance understanding of organisational resilience to compound events. The second is to motivate a theoretically informed body of work that moves SME climate-related impact studies beyond empirical description of outcomes and towards understanding of how resilient organisations might be built. The third is to support increased SME resilience through the identification and dissemination of the key capabilities and conditions that enabled response and recovery. Findings, based on semi-structured interviews with 32 Sierra Nevada SMEs, suggest that the resilience as meta-capability framework is helpful towards achieving those ends.

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2020 年和 2021 年是加利福尼亚州有史以来最大的两个野火季节，也是 COVID-19 大流行的开始。本文在研究加利福尼亚内华达山脉地区中小型企业（SME）对这些复合事件的响应和恢复时采用了 "复原力即元能力 "框架，目的有三。首先是加深对组织应对复合事件能力的理解。第二个目的是推动有理论依据的工作，使中小企业与气候相关的影响研究超越对结果的经验性描述，进而了解如何建立具有抗灾能力的组织。第三，通过识别和传播有助于应对和恢复的关键能力和条件，支持提高中小企业的抗灾能力。根据对 32 家内华达山脉中小企业的半结构式访谈得出的结果表明，作为元能力的复原力框架有助于实现这些目标。

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Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management MANAGEMENT-

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期刊介绍： The Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management is an invaluable source of information on all aspects of contingency planning, scenario analysis and crisis management in both corporate and public sectors. It focuses on the opportunities and threats facing organizations and presents analysis and case studies of crisis prevention, crisis planning, recovery and turnaround management. With contributions from world-wide sources including corporations, governmental agencies, think tanks and influential academics, this publication provides a vital platform for the exchange of strategic and operational experience, information and knowledge.