Showing papers on "Disaster recovery published in 1969"
01 Sep 1969
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors conducted a field study on the long-term effects of the March 27, 1964 Alaska earthquake on a sample of twenty-three organizations and found that organizations tended to undergo longterm change when the earthquake significantly altered their environments and when it engendered or heightened internal problems such as organizational strains.
Abstract: : The report discusses the findings of a year and a half field study on the long-term effects of the March 27, 1964 Alaska earthquake on a sample of twenty-three Anchorage organizations. Seventeen of the organizations studied experienced some long-term change as a result of the earthquake. In some cases the disaster facilitated the emergence of new patterns of change and in others it accelerated preexisting trends. Organizations tended to undergo long-term change when the earthquake significantly altered their environments, for example, by creating new demands, and when it engendered or heightened internal problems such as organizational strains.
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