Microbusiness Collaboration as a Strategy to Increase Resilience in Natural Disasters: The Case of Coastal El Niño in Peru 2017

Jorge Vargas-Florez; Eliseo Vilalta-Perdomo; Martin Hingley; Rosario Michel-Villarreal

doi:10.4018/978-1-5225-8160-4.ch017

Microbusiness Collaboration as a Strategy to Increase Resilience in Natural Disasters: The Case of Coastal El Niño in Peru 2017

Jorge Vargas-Florez, Eliseo Vilalta-Perdomo, Martin Hingley, Rosario Michel-Villarreal

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Abstract

Microbusiness, MB, importance for the global economy is uncontestable; they have huge participation of the world's production. In Peru, small-and medium-enterprises, SMEs, are 99% of the total of existing companies and contribute approximately 47% of the country's GDP; MBs are grouped within SMEs. They are the greatest generators of employment, although this may be informal and of poor quality. MBs confront difficulties, mainly due to their limited human and financial resources. Theories around how to deal with it have been developed mainly with big enterprises in mind, and this has little connection with what happens inside MBs. Accordingly, this chapter offers collaboration as a response strategy in case of a disruptive event to support MB resilience construction. This is contextualized from the experience of the Peruvian Costal El Niño 2017 and illustrated through the actions that a MB case (a beekeeper) took to deal with it.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Handbook of Research on Urban and Humanitarian Logistics
Editors	Jesus Gonzalez-Feliu, Mario Chong, Jorge Vargas Florez , Julio Padilla Solis
Publisher	IGI Global
Chapter	7
Number of pages	17
ISBN (Electronic)	9781522581611
ISBN (Print)	9781522581604
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-8160-4.ch017 https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-8160-4.ch017
Publication status	Published - 28 Jun 2019

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humanitarian logistics
disaster management
Peru

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Vargas-Florez, J., Vilalta-Perdomo, E., Hingley, M., & Michel-Villarreal, R. (2019). Microbusiness Collaboration as a Strategy to Increase Resilience in Natural Disasters: The Case of Coastal El Niño in Peru 2017. In J. Gonzalez-Feliu, M. Chong, J. V. Florez , & J. Padilla Solis (Eds.), Handbook of Research on Urban and Humanitarian Logistics IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-8160-4.ch017, https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-8160-4.ch017

Vargas-Florez, Jorge ; Vilalta-Perdomo, Eliseo ; Hingley, Martin et al. / Microbusiness Collaboration as a Strategy to Increase Resilience in Natural Disasters : The Case of Coastal El Niño in Peru 2017. Handbook of Research on Urban and Humanitarian Logistics. editor / Jesus Gonzalez-Feliu ; Mario Chong ; Jorge Vargas Florez ; Julio Padilla Solis. IGI Global, 2019.

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Vargas-Florez, J, Vilalta-Perdomo, E, Hingley, M & Michel-Villarreal, R 2019, Microbusiness Collaboration as a Strategy to Increase Resilience in Natural Disasters: The Case of Coastal El Niño in Peru 2017. in J Gonzalez-Feliu, M Chong, JV Florez & J Padilla Solis (eds), Handbook of Research on Urban and Humanitarian Logistics. IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-8160-4.ch017, https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-8160-4.ch017

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Vargas-Florez J, Vilalta-Perdomo E, Hingley M, Michel-Villarreal R. Microbusiness Collaboration as a Strategy to Increase Resilience in Natural Disasters: The Case of Coastal El Niño in Peru 2017. In Gonzalez-Feliu J, Chong M, Florez JV, Padilla Solis J, editors, Handbook of Research on Urban and Humanitarian Logistics. IGI Global. 2019 doi: 10.4018/978-1-5225-8160-4.ch017, 10.4018/978-1-5225-8160-4.ch017

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