A review of construction workforce health challenges and strategies in extreme weather conditions

S Karthick, S Kermanshachi… - … of occupational safety …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Construction sites continue to operate despite inclement weather, exposing workers to
unpleasant working circumstances that can lead to various physical and mental health …

Small & medium-sized enterprises, organizational resilience capacity and flash floods: Insights from a literature review

A Skouloudis, T Tsalis, I Nikolaou, K Evangelinos… - Sustainability, 2020 - mdpi.com
From a managerial standpoint, sustainability poses numerous challenges for the business
community. One of the prominent concerns in the context of organizational sustainability is …

[图书][B] Risk management in small and medium enterprises

C Crovini - 2019 - taylorfrancis.com
This book offers a fresh method of assessing and managing risks in SMEs, by adopting a
multidisciplinary approach. In small and medium companies, the risk management process …

Small businesses and flood impacts: the case of the 2009 flood event in C ockermouth

G Wedawatta, B Ingirige… - Journal of Flood Risk …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Flooding can have a devastating impact on businesses, especially on small‐and medium‐
sized enterprises (SMEs) who may be unprepared and vulnerable to the range of both direct …

Leveraging business failure to drive eco‐innovation adoption: An integrated conceptual framework

J Amankwah‐Amoah - Corporate Social Responsibility and …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Despite a growing body of research on business failure and eco‐innovation, these two
streams of research have developed in isolation, thus lacking an organizing framework to …

A conceptual framework for understanding resilience of construction SMEs to extreme weather events

G Wedawatta, B Ingirige - Built Environment Project and Asset …, 2016 - emerald.com
Purpose Small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs), which form a significant portion in
many economies, are some of the most vulnerable to the impact of extreme weather events …

Making the construction industry resilient to extreme weather: lessons from construction in hot weather conditions

MN Alshebani, G Wedawatta - Procedia Economics and Finance, 2014 - Elsevier
The construction industry is susceptible to extreme weather events (EWEs) due to most of its
activities being conducted by manual workers outdoors. Although research has been …

[HTML][HTML] Analysis of business interruption risk factors of Chinese enterprises during flood disasters based on social network analysis

L Ma, L Yang, X Jiang, D Huang - Climate Risk Management, 2021 - Elsevier
Global warming has led to frequent flood disasters, which pose great uncertainty and risk to
the normal operation of enterprises. To identify the key risk factors of business interruption …

Putting policy initiatives into practice: Adopting an “honest broker” approach to adapting small businesses against flooding

B Ingirige, G Wedawatta - Structural Survey, 2014 - emerald.com
Purpose–Amidst the current economic climate, which places many constraints on expensive
flood defence schemes, the policy makers tend to favour schemes that are sympathetic to …

Use of new models of construction procurement to enhance collaboration in construction projects: the UK construction industry perspective

RJ Atkinson, M Tennakoon… - Journal of Financial …, 2022 - emerald.com
Purpose The lack of collaborative working within the UK construction industry is a long-
standing issue that has often been highlighted. As a result, the construction industry in the …