Natural Disaster and Organizational Change: A Comparative Analysis of Three Cities
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1970
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Disaster Research Center
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The body of this report is a descriptive analysis of organizational activities in natural disasters and organizational change in post-disaster environments. The question, therefore, to which this report addresses itself is the effect of natural disasters on various community organizations: Do such organizations, in effect, learn anything as a result of analytic framework within this question is broached is comparison of disaster and post-disaster experiences of fifty-six organizations in three American cities impacted within the last seven years.
Keywords
Topeka Tornado, Idianapolis Coliseum explosion, organizational change, Hurricane Betsy, natural disaster