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This book examines the growing role and importance of 'Protection Gap Entities' (PGEs). The authors use practical examples from different countries to explain how PGEs step in to maintain disaster insurance and how their work can, but does not always, improve financial and physical resilience to disaster.
About the author
Paula Jarzabkowski is a Professor of Strategic Management at the University of Queensland and City, University of London. Her research examines the practice of strategy and markets in complex, pluralistic, and paradoxical contexts and she is noted for her innovations in large-scale qualitative, ethnographic methods. She is the co-author of Making a Market for Acts of God (OUP 2015) and co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of Organizational Paradox (OUP 2017; paperback 2019).
Konstantinos Chalkias is a Senior Lecturer in Management at Birkbeck, University of London. He studies strategizing within organizations and markets, and is also interested in interorganizational contexts that are described by paradoxical tensions. His research has been published in journals such as The British Journal of Management and Strategic Organization.
Eugenia Cacciatori is Senior Lecturer in Management at Bayes Business School, City, University of London. Her research explores the organizational processes of innovation, with a focus on organizational solutions - particularly digital technologies - that allow diverse expertise to be brought to bear on complex problems within and across organizations. Her work has been published in journals including Journal of Management Studies and Organization Studies.
Rebecca Bednarek is Associate Professor at Victoria University Wellington. She studies strategic tensions (or paradoxes) and strategizing practices and has explored these in the global reinsurance market as well as in the science sector; she is also an expert in qualitative methods. She is the co-author of Making a Market for Acts of God (OUP 2015).
Summary
This book examines the growing role and importance of 'Protection Gap Entities' (PGEs). The authors use practical examples from different countries to explain how PGEs step in to maintain disaster insurance and how their work can, but does not always, improve financial and physical resilience to disaster.
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Disaster Insurance Reimagined: Protection in a Time of Increasing Risk is a must-read book for all catastrophe insurance professionals and all others interested in the role insurance can play in dealing with the growing loss from both the rise in exposure and climate change. Clever and easy to read, this work provides framework, sets the issues at stake and makes explicit the underlying philosophy by which catastrophe insurance is provided in very different jurisdictions.
