A research agenda for disaster entrepreneurship

Daniel P. Aldrich ()
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Daniel P. Aldrich: Northeastern University

The Review of Austrian Economics, 2018, vol. 31, issue 4, No 5, 457-465

Abstract: Abstract This paper addresses questions raised by Storr, Haeffele-Balch and Grube in their book Community Revival in the Wake of Disaster: Lessons in Local Entrepreneurship (2015). I review the reasons why the book is timely, especially the rising number and costs of disasters globally and the shifting norms on the role of government in disaster management. Social capital serves as a critical engine for resilience to crisis, and I move to demonstrate its importance in the mitigation and recovery stages. Then, I raise a research agenda based on their writings, focusing on building quantitative evidence to match the qualitative data already gathered by the authors. Specifically, I focus on testing claims about the definition and density of entrepreneurs, the role of polycentricity, and the public policy pools that would build entrepreneurial talent in vulnerable communities.

Keywords: Social capital; Exit vs. voice; Signal to noise; Entrepreneurs; Disaster; Tohoku (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: B53 D71 L26 Q54 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1007/s11138-017-0393-0

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