EDITORIAL

EDITORIAL

Maria Alejandra Gonzalez-Perez

AD-minister's Editor-in-chief Universidad  EAFIT.  Medellín, Colombia.

While the evidence is compelling that disaster risk management (DRM) creates value and increases business competitiveness, it should follow that its savvy implementation should guide investment decisions. Yet worldwide, it has been observed that there are very few companies with strategies and mechanisms with integrated DRM, and further the theme hasn't yet become a priority in business schools around the world.

This special international issue aims to confront that startling observation by highlighting the impor- tance of local contexts, regional realities and global trends. As an important academic collaborative, it endeavours to contribute to a variety of curricular issues including: (i) identifying teaching opportunities and curricula development (i.e. co-creation and co-development of teaching materials in DRM for business related programs; promotion of business start-ups; integration of experiential learning in DRM in business education); (ii) designing professional development and executive education programs (i.e. identification of specific skills and competencies needed for DRM in management; creation of a job market in the busi- ness community for those with specific skills and competencies in DRM); and (iii) establishing avenues for future research and publication (i.e. identifying the ''business case'' of DRM, mapping existing sources, and defining the state of the art in DRM, conducting specific case studies; developing a critical review and understanding of DRM in business, and business resilience; dissemination of a knowledge frontier and cross-fertilisation, and, developing evidence-based research of business and DRM).

This special issued, co-edited by Dr. Juan Pablo Sarmiento, Mr. Neil McFarlane, and Dr. Maria Alejan- dra Gonzalez-Perez consists of 13 papers authored by 30 academics from 11 higher educations institutions from 10 different countries (Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, India, Indonesia, Jamaica, Mexico, Peru, and United States). Given its international scope, this body of papers offers complementary perspectives from diverse disciplines and geographical and institutional backgrounds in addressing DRM and business continuity in business education.

AD-minister seeks to disseminate research on local and international developments in business ad- ministration, International Business, Accounting, Marketing and Organizational Psychology. The opinions of the authors are theirs alone. They do not necessarily reflect those of EAFIT, the Business School, the Editorial Committee or the sponsoring agencies.

AD-minister is under Creative Commons license. The international standard serial number (ISSN) for AD-minister is 1692-0279 and the electronic international standard serial number (eISSN) is 2256-4322. All rights in this document are reserved by the United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS). The doc- ument may nevertheless be freely reviewed, abstracted, reproduced or translated into any other language (but not for sale or for use in conjunction with commercial purposes) provided that full acknowledgement is given to the source.

This publication is based on the Disaster Risk Management (DRM) in Business Education Workshop held in Toronto, Canada In March 23-24, 2016. The DRM in Business Education is an initiative led by Florida International University's Extreme Events Institute, under the United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS), Grant Support Agreement GSA/2016/005, funded by the Federal Government of Germany's Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), in support of the ARISE Initiative.

The editors and Universidad EAFIT would like to acknowledge that this special issue was sup- ported by Florida International University's ''Disaster Risk Reduction in the Americas Program,'' under the Cooperative Agreement # AID-OFDA-A-13-00041 with the United States Agency for International Development's Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance  (USAID/OFDA).

AD-minister and Universidad EAFIT consider it an honour to have been chosen as the official outlet for publishing this special issue dedicated to Disaster Risk Management & Business Education: Sustainable and Resilient Business.