Abstract
- Access to government funding is one of the most effective ways to enhance the resilience for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SME) community after a disaster. Along these lines a major focus of SME resiliency research has been on examining factors needed to keep an SME open after a disaster. This research makes sense as SMEs are critical to community recovery. It seems logical that the severity of a disaster would indicate the impact to a community. We hypothesize that this linear correlation breaks down at some point, causing the community to quickly spiral into trouble. This paper presents an agent-based model to test our hypothesis. The results indicate the impact to a community becomes much more extreme after a threshold or “tipping point” is crossed.