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Corporations Can Increase Resilience by Mobilizing Resources to Disasters
September 9, 2008 5:11 PM
In 2006 and 2007, InterCEP undertook a major research project focused on the mobilization of corporate resources to disasters. Some of the findings from this research effort appeared recently in the International Journal of Technology, Policy and Management, in a Special Issue on Developments in Business Resiliency and Disaster Recovery, guest edited by Dr. Holmes E. Miller of Muhlenberg College.
The article, "Mobilizing Corporate Resources to Disasters: A Comparative Analysis of Major Initiatives" was co-authored by InterCEP Associate Director Dr. Matt Statler, Executive Director Bill Raisch and Dr. Peter T. Burgi, Senior Consultant with Research International. The article includes an in-depth comparative analysis of six different resource mobilization programs, including: 1) Business Executives for National Security (BENS) and its Business Response Network (BRN); 2) The Disaster Resource Network (DRN), sponsored by the World Economic Forum (WEF); 3) the United Nations Impact Program, involving the World Food Programme (WFP) and Citigroup; 4) Global Partnership for Preparedness (GPP), sponsored by Disaster Recovery Institute (DRII) International; 5) National Emergency Response Registry (NERR) sponsored by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, and currently deactivated in its original form and moved to FEMA; and 6) Private Assets and Logistics Management System (PALMS), organized by the New York City Office of Emergency Management as a subset of the previously- established Citywide Assets and Logistics Management System (CALMS) program. Data from these programs is analyzed and used to develop a theory that frames the mobilization of corporate resources to disasters as an attempt to develop interdependent resilience as a shared, intangible asset.
Click here for a link to the International Journal of Technology, Policy and Management website