“…Their dyadic relationships are affected by capabilities, roles, and authorities. Although organizations pursue a shared goal, the differences in resources and authority will complicate the situation (Nightingale, 2004). One of the most important aspects of EM is the interpersonal communication.…”
PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to analyze scholarly discussions and findings regarding collaborative emergency management (CEM). Several aspects such as leadership, decision making, intergovernmental and interorganizational relations, technology applications in CEM have been investigated.Design/methodology/approachLiterature review was conducted using three popular search data bases, Academic Search Premier, Academic OneFile, and Info Track OneFile using the following keywords: CEM, collaborative and emergency and management, collaborative networks, emergency networks, emergency network, interorganizational networks, Interorganizational and networks, intergovernmental and networks, and National Emergency Management Network (NEMN).FindingsThe paper emphasizes that high expectations of public and stakeholders in emergency and disaster management require effective use of resources by collaborative networks.Practical implicationsEmergency and disaster managers should be able to adopt their organization culture, structure and processes to the collaborative nature of emergency management.Originality/valueThe paper focuses on a very important subject in emergency and disaster management using NEMN as example.
“…Their dyadic relationships are affected by capabilities, roles, and authorities. Although organizations pursue a shared goal, the differences in resources and authority will complicate the situation (Nightingale, 2004). One of the most important aspects of EM is the interpersonal communication.…”
PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to analyze scholarly discussions and findings regarding collaborative emergency management (CEM). Several aspects such as leadership, decision making, intergovernmental and interorganizational relations, technology applications in CEM have been investigated.Design/methodology/approachLiterature review was conducted using three popular search data bases, Academic Search Premier, Academic OneFile, and Info Track OneFile using the following keywords: CEM, collaborative and emergency and management, collaborative networks, emergency networks, emergency network, interorganizational networks, Interorganizational and networks, intergovernmental and networks, and National Emergency Management Network (NEMN).FindingsThe paper emphasizes that high expectations of public and stakeholders in emergency and disaster management require effective use of resources by collaborative networks.Practical implicationsEmergency and disaster managers should be able to adopt their organization culture, structure and processes to the collaborative nature of emergency management.Originality/valueThe paper focuses on a very important subject in emergency and disaster management using NEMN as example.
“…This study was guided by social network analysis in that it examines and attempts to illustrate the relationships that formed between various organizations in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Nightingale () states that:…[t]he theory behind network analysis is that one can identify the patterns of linkages between and among individuals, institutions, or agencies using systematic constructs about the connections between pairs of organizations, allowing one to define the scope of the network, the actors within it, and the key hubs (primary actors) (p. 217).…”
Section: Literature Reviewmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…This study was guided by social network analysis in that it examines and attempts to illustrate the relationships that formed between various organizations in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Nightingale (2004) states that:…”
The purpose of this study was to examine how well organizations that could have potentially aided in the response to Hurricane Katrina were integrated into the relief effort following the disaster using a social network analysis framework. It was hypothesized that a number of organizations were kept isolated from or peripheral to mitigation efforts. Quantitative content analysis of media reports and government documents was performed to test this hypothesis, which was confirmed. The results of this study suggest that if relief efforts are to be more successful in the future, organizations with valuable resources must be included in the interorganizational networks of responders before and immediately after disasters take place.
“…This study was guided by social network analysis in that it examines and attempts to illustrate the relationships that formed between various organisations in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Nightingale (2004) states that:…”
The purpose of this study is to discover how coordination and communication between the government and service organisations responsible for the relief effort following Hurricane Katrina contributed to the poor outcomes for the communities impacted by the storm. Two hypotheses were tested in this study: communication was positively correlated with the degree of coordination immediately following Katrina; and miscommunication was negatively correlated with the degree of coordination after the storm. Quantitative content analysis of media reports was used to analyse the data and test the hypotheses. Both communication and miscommunication were found to be positively correlated with coordination. The results of this study suggest that increasing interorganisational communication and establishing clearly defined roles for organisations must be a high priority in revamping organisational protocol on disaster response if any new approach is to be successful.
scite is a Brooklyn-based organization that helps researchers better discover and understand research articles through Smart Citations–citations that display the context of the citation and describe whether the article provides supporting or contrasting evidence. scite is used by students and researchers from around the world and is funded in part by the National Science Foundation and the National Institute on Drug Abuse of the National Institutes of Health.
