Continuidad de negocio y gestión del riesgo de desastres en la educación de negocios: el caso York University
| Autor | Ali Asgary |
| Cargo | Associate Professor, Disaster & Emergency Management, School of Administrative Studies |
| Páginas | 49-72 |
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Business Continuity and Disaster Risk Management in
Business Education: Case of York University
Continuidad de negocio y gestión del riesgo de desastres en la educación de negocios:
el caso York University
1 Associate Professor, Disaster & Emergency Management, School of Administrative Studies, Faculty
of Liberal Arts and Professional Studies, York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Email. asgary@
yorku.ca
ALI
ASGARY
JEL: H, M, Q
Received: 18/03/2016
Modified: 2/06/2016
Accepted: 10/06/2016
DOI: 10.17230/ad-minister.28.3
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ABSTRACT
Increasing levels of business disruptions and disaster events on one hand while local, national and in-
ternational campaigns on the other have increased businesses’ awareness, attention and demand for
the need for business continuity management. As more and more businesses are looking to integrate
disaster risk and business continuity management into their business operations and decision making
processes, the need for such expertise has also increased. Despite these needs, many business schools
around the world have not fully identified, realized or addressed them. While there are several models
for integrating disaster risk and business continuity management in business education, York University
has established undergraduate and graduate level disaster and emergency management programs in a
business school setting to address these growing needs. Through this integration, considerable numbers
of business students enroll in disaster risk management, and business continuity courses. Knowledge
and skills that students acquire through these courses make them informed and knowledgeable players
in business continuity management teams in their varied work places.
KEYWORDS
Business continuity management; York University; business education; disaster risk management.
RESUMEN:
Mientras que por un lado los niveles de disrupciones en los negocios y los eventos desastrosos son crecien-
tes, por el otro, las campañas locales, nacionales e internacionales han incrementado la consciencia, aten-
ción y demanda de las empresas con respecto a la necesidad de la gestión de la continuidad de negocio.
En la medida en que más empresas buscan integrar la gestión del riesgo de desastres y de la continuidad
de negocio en sus operaciones y procesos de toma de decisiones, la necesidad de dicho conocimiento
también ha aumentado. Sin embargo, a pesar de estas necesidades, muchas escuelas de negocios alre-
dedor del mundo no las han identificado, no se han dado cuenta de ellas, ni las han abordado. Si bien hay
diferentes modelos para integrar la gestión del riesgo de desastres y de la continuidad de negocio en la
educación de negocios, York University ha establecido programas de pregrado y posgrado sobre la gestión
de desastres y emergencias en una escuela de negocios para hacer frente a estas crecientes necesidades.
A través de esta integración, un número considerable de estudiantes de negocios se matriculan en cursos
de gestión del riesgo de desastres y de continuidad de negocio. El conocimiento y las capacidades que los
estudiantes adquieren a través de estos cursos, los convierten en actores informados y conocedores para
los equipos de gestión de la continuidad de negocio de sus diferentes lugares de trabajo.
PALABRAS CLAVE
Gestión de la continuidad de negocio; York University; educación de negocios; gestión del riesgo de
desastres.
AD-minister Nº. 28 enero-junio 2016 pp. 49 - 72 · ISSN 1692-0279 · eISSN 2256-4322
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Ali Asgary
Business Continuity and Disaster Risk Management in Business Education: Case of York University
INTRODUCTION
Businesses like other facets of the society are at risk for a large number of dynamic,
natural, technological, and human made hazards. Increasing business complexity,
government and industry-specific regulations, corporate governance requirements,
stakeholders push, media and public scrutiny, demand an integrated approach to
business risk and continuity management (Shaw & Harald, 2004). Moreover, as the
number of large disruptive disasters is increasing businesses are becoming more
and more concerned with disaster-induced direct and indirect losses in their supply
chains, along with the fall in output, revenue, and profitability (Desai & Sarmiento,
2015) and therefore seek to prepare business continuity plans (Sarmiento et al., 2015).
Considering that significant amount of critical infrastructure, wealth, investment,
employment, and income sources rest with private sector companies, it is important
to make sure that the educational support for disaster risk management and busi-
ness continuity is available to businesses for risk reduction and business continuity.
The Global Assessment Report (UNISDR, 2013) highlighted some of the key is-
sues in this area with particular emphasis on disaster risk considerations in private
sector’s investment decisions. In order to address these issues, national and interna-
tional agencies have embarked on a number of initiatives to shift the focus from the
government and public sectors to the private sector. New standards in business con-
tinuity and risk management have been released by national and international stan-
dard agencies, new educational programs and academic journals have been created,
global campaigns such as the United Nations Global Compact have been initiated
and the UNISDR Sendai Framework for Action (SFA) has paid significant attention
to the role of private sector in disaster risk reduction and business continuity.
This paper examines the development of business continuity in business education
using York University’s disaster and emergency management program as a case study.
It is argued that disaster risk reduction and business continuity management should
be an integral part of business education if the objectives of the Sendai Framework for
Disaster Risk Reduction in private sector’s role in disaster risk reduction at both corpo-
rate and wider levels are going to be achieved by the year 2030. The rest of this paper is
organized as follows: Section two reviews the need for business continuity and disaster
risk management education in general and in business education in particular. Section
three presents four contemporary approaches and models for dealing with business
continuity and disaster risk management in business education. Methodology of the
paper is explained in section four. Section five describes York University’s approach to
integrating business continuity and disaster risk management in business education
in detail. Finally, section six concludes with some recommendations.
DISASTER RISK AND BUSINESS CONTINUITY MANAGEMENT IN
BUSINESSES EDUCATION
Disaster risk and business continuity management aim to integrate risk and busi-
ness continuity management into corporate, strategic, tactical and operational man-
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