Return of the inoperability
College
Ramon V. Del Rosario College of Business
Department/Unit
Economics
Document Type
Article
Source Title
Economic Systems Research
Volume
31
Issue
4
First Page
467
Last Page
480
Publication Date
10-2-2019
Abstract
© 2018, © 2018 The International Input--Output Association. There has been unrest in the research community investigating the inoperability of an economic system under disaster situations. The inoperability input–output model (IIM), which is very popular in the risk management field, has become a center of argument, particularly from the input–output researchers, that IIM is a straightforward application of the standard Leontief input–output model. This paper revisits the concept of inoperability, rather than IIM, and proposes its new role in disaster impact analysis using a conventional tool, i.e. the RAS method, for illustrating how the inoperability of an economic system in the aftermath of disaster can be evaluated. The proposed framework is employed to examine the inoperability of industries resulting from the 1995 Kobe earthquake. The findings of the analysis reveal the usefulness of inoperability concept that can even incorporate resilience (gained operability) using the proposed framework of this paper.
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Digitial Object Identifier (DOI)
10.1080/09535314.2018.1510383
Recommended Citation
Okuyama, Y., & Yu, K. (2019). Return of the inoperability. Economic Systems Research, 31 (4), 467-480. https://doi.org/10.1080/09535314.2018.1510383
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