Business resilience to natural disasters

  • What it is

    Mobility experience with a research focus

  • Who it’s for

    Post Doc

Department

Department of Economics "Marco Biagi"

Main research activities/topics/projects

The research aims at investigating the resilience capacity of businesses to face natural disasters (earthquake, flood, pandemics). In particular the post-doc student will be involved in a current research project on the topic in order to identify the antecedents and outcomes of business resilience, especially for SMEs.  The study is based on surveying a sample of firms hit by different kind of natural disasters. To this aim, a structured questionnaire will be administered. Future avenues of joint-research can bring to perform a multigroup analysis comparing a sample of Italian and Brazilian businesses.

Working language

English

Special entry requirements

Multivariate statistics, SEM (Lisrel or PLS)

Duration in months (min-max)

Post Doc: 6-12

Contacts

Main scientific contact person

Elisa Martinelli

+39 0592056858

Write an e-mail

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