Designing and Arranging a Small Businesses Recovery Model after the Kermanshah Earthquake Crisis

The present qualitative research was designed with the aim for arranging a model for Post-Crisis Small Businesses Recovery after the Kermanshah earthquake in 2017, using the grounded theory and a systematic approach of Strauss and Corbin. For this purpose, semi-structured interviews were conducted with help of theoretical sampling and snowball methods with 56 Owners of various damaged and destroyed urban and rural businesses and government officials. The sample size was dependent on the theoretical saturation of the data. In order to assess the validity and quality characteristics of the research, accreditation, accuracy and robustness of the data, the four criteria of Lincoln and Guba such as Credibility, Transferability and Fittingness, Dependability and Conformability have been used. The reliability of the study was calculated using Holstie's reliability formula and 82% was obtained. The results of data content analysis, through three open, axial and selective coding procedures, resulted in the identification of 555 codes, 332 concepts, and 58 categories. Finally, a paradigm model of small business Recovery was presented in which "Post-Crisis Small Businesses Recovery" was selected as the pivot phenomenon influenced by the causal factors of research. Grounded and interventional Factors, along with the pivotal phenomenon, formed the strategies, and the consequences were identified such as economic consequences, social and cultural consequences, political and administrative consequences. According to the research findings, the Priority or simultaneous Recovery of small businesses with other dimensions of reconstruction, can provide the basis for livelihood and income for the survivors of the accident and accelerate the process of physical reconstruction and other aspects of reconstruction.