TY - JFULL AU - A. Skouloudis and K. Evangelinos and W. Leal-Filho and P. Vouros and I. Nikolaou and T. Tsalis PY - 2022/7/ TI - Assessing Organizational Resilience Capacity to Flooding: Index Development and Application to Greek Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises T2 - International Journal of Urban and Civil Engineering SP - 175 EP - 180 VL - 16 SN - 1307-6892 UR - https://publications.waset.org/pdf/10012591 PU - World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology NX - Open Science Index 186, 2022 N2 - In this study a composite index of factors linked to the resilience capacity of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to flooding is proposed and tested. A sample of SMEs located in flood-prone areas (n = 391) was administered a structured questionnaire pertaining to cognitive, managerial and contextual factors that affect the ability to prepare, withstand, and recover from flooding events. Through the proposed index, a bottom-up, self-assessment approach is set forth that could assist in standardizing such assessments with an overarching aim of reducing the vulnerability of SMEs to floods. This is achieved by examining critical internal and external parameters affecting SMEs’ resilience capacity which is particularly important taking into account the limited resources these enterprises tend to have at their disposal and that they can generate single points of failure in dense supply chain networks. ER -