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This is a case study of three small businesses that uncovers management and employee reactions to natural or mechanical disasters and the recovery processes. The study explores Weick's Theory of Sensemaking to determine managers' and employees' perceptions of job changes post cr…

When governments are unable or unwilling to provide necessary relief to communities, local faith-based congregations (FBCs) step in and fill the gap. Though shown to provide for so many needs following disaster, FBCs have largely been left out of the institutional emergency mana…

The devastation that Hurricane María caused in Puerto Rico and the deteriorating conditions in its aftermath triggered a crisis migration that displaced thousands of Puerto Ricans to the United States mainland. Many Puerto Ricans arrived in Central Florida while other crisis mig…