Riding the Storm: Entrepreneurship, Innovation, and Strategy in Navigating Natural Disasters—A Multi-Level Study

Climate change has led to a growing number of natural disasters. This dissertation examines how firms create, innovate, and survive in those disasters. If firms do not survive, how do we promote failed entrepreneurs to reentry into entrepreneurship? And how complex social, cognitive, and resource environments mitigate the aforementioned relationships? By integrating social capital theory, behavioral theory of the firm, and prospect theory, this dissertation constructs a framework for understanding the multifaceted relationships between natural disasters and firm/personal behaviours. In doing so, this dissertation provides actionable insights that help organizations thrive in disasters and support policymakers in fostering more resilient entrepreneurial ecosystems.