Crisis management revisited: A new agenda for research, training and capacity building within Europe

Hart, Paul ‘t; Sundelius, Bengt

doi:10.1177/0010836713485711

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“…This article aims to fill some of the gap, by investigating organizational structures and coordination mechanisms in central government. Crisis research has tended to concentrate on technical/managerial or strategic/political security perspectives ('t Hart and Sundelius ; Boin et al ). Organizational studies focusing on crisis management in the public sector are less common.…”

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Comparing Coordination Structures for Crisis Management in Six Countries

Christensen

Danielsen

Lægreid

et al. 2015

Public Administration

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The article analyses organizational structures and coordination mechanisms for crisis management in six European countries, focusing on the prevalence of hierarchical and network arrangements, administrative culture and perceptions of coordination quality. Our main research question concerns the importance of collaboration and cooperation in the management of crises. We apply a structural–instrumental and a cultural perspective, and examine data on formal organizational structures as well as survey data from administrative executives. The mapping reveals hybrid coordination arrangements with different national ‘flavours’. The survey data show that the executives accorded significant weight to coordination, but the use of different coordination mechanisms was only loosely linked to their assessments of coordination quality. Our findings support a view of public administration as a largely composite system combining contradictory organizational principles that have evolved through institutional layering. National context and the specific challenges from different types of crises therefore influence crisis management capacity profoundly.

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Comparing Coordination Structures for Crisis Management in Six Countries

Christensen

Danielsen

Lægreid

et al. 2015

Public Administration

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“…Such studies could help scholars and policymakers understand the unexpected turns crises can take and provide practitioners with a range of tools when preparing for or handling future crises (cf. ‘t Hart & Sundelius, ).…”

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Taxonomy of the Crisis and Disaster Literature: Themes and Types in 34 Years of Research

Kuipers¹,

Welsh²

2017

Risk Hazard & Crisis Pub Pol

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This survey of the literature on crises and disasters reveals that crisis and disaster scholars remain focused on 'classic' natural disaster types and on our ability to prepare and respond to the threat they pose. The prevalence of natural disasters as a crisis type and the dominance of preparedness as a crisis theme indicates that the literature remains firmly linked to the world of practice, examining how best practices may be shared to prepare for future incidents. Yet interestingly, the three journals studied demonstrate modest interest in a number of issues that are only likely to increase in the coming years, all of which relate directly to an increasingly interconnected world. Most notably, the lack of attention on system interconnectedness or on advances in communication and cyber dependence (despite the rise of social media and internet use) is a surprising result, given how such systems and methods of communication are becoming so integrated into daily life. Such studies could help scholars and policymakers understand the unexpected turns crises can take and provide practitioners with a range of tools when preparing for or handling future crises. Taxonomía del trabajo acad emico de crisis y desastres: Temas y tipos en 34 años de investigaci onEste an alisis bibliogr afico de crisis y desastres revela que los acad emicos de las crisis y desastres permanecen enfocados en tipos 'cl asicos' de desastres naturales y en nuestra habilidad de prepararnos y responder a la amenaza que representan. La prevalencia de los desastres naturales como un tipo de crisis y la predominancia de la preparaci on como tema de crisis indica que la investigaci on permanece asociada firmemente al mundo de la pr actica, y examina c omo las mejores pr acticas se pueden compartir para prepararse para incidentes en el futuro. Sin embargo, interesantemente, las tres revistas acad emicas estudiadas demuestran un modesto inter es en muchos problemas que probablemente empeorar an en los pr oximos años, lo que se podría relacionar directamente a un mundo m as y m as interconectado. Sobre todo, la falta de atenci on a la interconectividad del sistema o en avances en la comunicaci on y la dependencia cibern etica (a pesar del incremento en el uso de las redes sociales y el Internet) es un resultado sorprendente, dado el hecho que esos sistemas y m etodos de comunicaci on se est an convirtiendo en algo tan integrado a la vida diaria. Tales estudios podrían ayudar a los acad emicos y formuladores de políticas a comprender los giros inesperados que pueden dar las crisis y proporcionar a otros actores un rango de herramientas para la preparaci on o el manejo de crisis futuras.PALABRAS CLAVES: crisis, desastre, an alisis bibliogr afico, tendencias de investigaci on

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“…There is a wide consensus that contemporary crisis management requires collaborative efforts across organizational and jurisdictional boundaries ('t Hart & Sundelius, , p. 445; Bondesson, , p. 41; Kapucu & Garayev, , p. 5). As a result, one of the key tasks for the government and responsible public authorities is to promote and facilitate functional collaboration in loosely and temporarily composed security networks, in which various organizations have widely differing capabilities to respond to the crises that demand their attention (Boin & Bynander, ; Hermansson, ; Nohrstedt, , p. 135; Nohrstedt & Bodin, ; Wang & Kuo, ).…”

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Meta‐Governance and Collaborative Crisis Management—Competing Rationalities in the Management of the Swedish Security Communications System

Larsson¹

2017

Risk Hazard & Crisis Pub Pol

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It is well recognized that contemporary crisis call for collaborative efforts across both organizational and jurisdictional boundaries. One of the key challenges for governments and public authorities responsible for organizing crisis management is to find adequate ways in which they can support decentralized and collaborative responses. This effort can be analyzed through the meta-governance approach that suggests that different instruments can be used to support decentralized collaborative efforts. This article analyzes the management of crisis communication in Sweden and the implementation of a new national Security Communications System (SCS) as a specific case of meta-governance. The main finding suggests that meta-governance may be impaired by combining different types of governance (sovereignty, markets, or network management) due to competing rationality invested in each governance style. The deadlock was, however, resolved by direct involvement and increased deliberation between the meta-governors and the end users as it generated a shared understanding of crisis management and the utility of a single SCS. Besides identifying the importance of direct involvement in terms of network management the article also suggests that meta-governors need to develop a deeper and more sensitive understanding of the selforganizing nature of networks in order to be able to support collaborative crisis management.

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Crisis management revisited: A new agenda for research, training and capacity building within Europe

Cited by 39 publications

References 45 publications

Comparing Coordination Structures for Crisis Management in Six Countries

Comparing Coordination Structures for Crisis Management in Six Countries

Taxonomy of the Crisis and Disaster Literature: Themes and Types in 34 Years of Research

Meta‐Governance and Collaborative Crisis Management—Competing Rationalities in the Management of the Swedish Security Communications System

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