Earthquake Impacts, Organizational Resilience and Recovery of the Accommodation/Food Services Sector in Canterbury, New Zealand: A Comparative Assessment

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University of Canterbury. Management, Marketing, and Entrepreneurship
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2015
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Prayag, G.
Orchiston, C.
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The purpose of this study is to analyse the felt earthquake impacts, resilience and recovery of organizations in Canterbury by comparing three business sectors (accommodation/food services, Education/Training and Manufacturing). A survey of the three sectors in 2013 of Canterbury organizations impacted by the earthquakes revealed significant differences between the three sectors on felt earthquake impacts and resilience. On recovery and mitigation factors, the accommodation/food services sector is not significantly different from the other two sectors. Overall, the survey results presented here indicate that the Accommodation/Food Services sector was the least impacted by the earthquakes in comparison to the Education/Training and Manufacturing sectors. Implications for post-disaster management and recovery of the accommodation sector are suggested.

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Prayag, G., Orchiston, C. (2015) Earthquake Impacts, Organizational Resilience and Recovery of the Accommodation/Food Services Sector in Canterbury, New Zealand: A Comparative Assessment. Auckland, New Zealand: 13th Asia Pacific Council on Hotel Restaurant and Institutional Education Conference (APCHRIE), 10-13 Jun 2015.
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organizational resilience, disaster management, accommodation, earthquake impacts, mitigation factors, industry sectors
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Field of Research::17 - Psychology and Cognitive Sciences::1701 - Psychology::170107 - Industrial and Organisational Psychology
Fields of Research::35 - Commerce, management, tourism and services::3507 - Strategy, management and organisational behaviour::350710 - Organisational behaviour
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