Conceptual Model And Evidence Based Research

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Conceptual Model and Hypotheses
Conceptual Model - The role of the conceptual model is to translate theoretical constructs, such as organizational preparedness, into operationalized visual representations (Van de Ven, 2007) to guide further study and research. An integrative conceptual model that operationalizes the performance consequences of coping with terrorism in business is displayed in Figure 7. The representation shows how a business applies past terrorism experience in building the capacity and ability to bounce back from systemic discontinuities and new risk environments (Starr, et al., 2003) due to terrorism. The conceptual model depicts and identifies the relationship between the observed variables (Van de Ven, 2007) in the model. …show more content…

START is a University of Maryland based research and education center at the comprised of a network of international scholars (Global Terrorism Database, 2015). Moreover, START is a Department of Homeland Security Center of Excellence and has been tasked by the Department of State to collect statistical data on terrorism in support of the annual Country Reports on Terrorism required by Title 22, Section 2656f of the United States Code. The Country Reports of Terrorism 2014 (2015) provides comprehensive country level quantitative and qualitative risk data and trends. Since 2001, START has maintained the Global Terrorism Database (GTD), which is a publicly available, unclassified excel based event database comprised of detailed quantitative numeric data and descriptive text systematically gathered from open-source reports of terrorist attacks (Global Terrorism Database, 2015). GTD (2015), accompanied by an instructive codebook, contains 141,967 rows and 108 columns of data categorized and coded into fields, as shown in Table 5. The GTG (2015) can be easily accessed, sorted, filtered and graphed using pivot tables in excel. For example, the GTD (2015) reveals that property value damage to business from terrorism is the 2nd highest target accounting for over 22% of all