How do (combinations of) factors contribute to business recovery after the Great East Japan Earthquake?
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2025-06-18
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This research has looked at the Great East Japan earthquake and what led to businesses recovering. In the theoretical background, five factors were found to have a positive contribution to business recovery. These five factors are being part of the Construction and manufacturing sector, being Part of a franchise, having a Low disaster impact, having a Big business size, and having Good pre-disaster financial conditions. The QCA method is applied in six steps like calibrating the fuzzy scores into crisp ones, Necessity analyses, making a Truth table, Sufficiency analyses, and a Robustness test. Eventually, three solutions have been found. The first solution is that companies with not good pre-disaster financial conditions are more prone to recover after the earthquake. Secondly, companies that are part of the construction and manufacturing sector and have a high disaster impact, have a higher chance to recover. Lastly, companies which are part of the construction and manufacturing sector and have a big business size, are more likely to recover. In the discussion, the solutions are reviewed by comparing them to the expectations and existing literature. Afterwards, the theoretical and practical implications as well as the limitations and suggestions for future research are discussed.
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Faculteit der Managementwetenschappen