What is it about?
This research shows what kind of communities are more resilient to disasters, and how a specific form of disaster (a deadly contagious disease) reduced the founding of new organizations for decades after the disaster.
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Why is it important?
We have long focused on entrepreneurs as a source of new businesses, but this has led us to ignore how communities differ in their ease of starting organizations. We now have a series of papers showing that communities differ in their ability to sustain founding of organizations, and these differences can be traced back to events that build organizing capacity or tear it down.
Perspectives
Small communities have often been overlooked by researchers. Somehow they are too big for those who focus on individuals, and too small for those who focus on societies. But, for entrepreneurs, communities are immensely important. I want more research on how community capabilities are grown and help organizational founding and growth.
Professor Henrich R Greve
INSEAD
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This page is a summary of: Disasters and Community Resilience: Spanish Flu and the Formation of Retail Cooperatives in Norway, Academy of Management Journal, February 2018, The Academy of Management,
DOI: 10.5465/amj.2016.0054.
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