Disaster Response After Extreme Events in Taiwan: The Influence of Formal Institutions on Inter‐Organizational Interaction

Wang, Wen‐Jiun

doi:10.1002/rhc3.12155

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“…Wang (19) indicated that legal institutions and information communication technology affected the formation and evolution of inter-organizational interactions in Taiwan's disaster reaction system after Chi Chi's earthquake and Morakot's storm. They concluded that situations not only helped the institutional development and disaster but also proposed a management theory and provide policymakers with the insight into how to improve capacity.…”

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Experiences of Experts with Communication and Information Exchange in Response to Disasters

2022

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Introduction: Effective communication and timely information exchange during disasters and emergencies can help responsive organizations prepare better and react fast and effectively in order to mitigate losses and casualties. Objectives: This study summarizes the experiences of experts at Iran’s Relief and Rescue Organization and Emergency Organization with regard to how communication and information exchange contributed in response to past disasters. Methods:: The content analysis approach was used in this qualitative study. The statistical population included the operational managers and employees of Iran’s Relief and Rescue Organization and Emergency Organization from different provinces with various in managerial and field work's experiences at supreme, middle, and operational levels as well as experiences with local, provincial, regional, national, and international disasters. The purposive sampling method was then employed to collect data through semi-structured interviews from 24 participants. Data analysis was performed in MAXQDA 12. Findings: The results of analyzing the interviews included a main theme of communication and information exchange with two categories. The first category was identified as intra-organizational communication and information exchange with seven subcategories called organizational individuals and departments, communication channels, communication model, message content, purpose of communication, standards and instructions, and challenges. The second category was identified as inter-organizational communication and information exchange with six subcategories called organizational individuals and departments, communication channels, communication model, message content, purpose of communication, and challenges. Conclusion: The participants believed that there were limited horizontal communications and information exchange between Iran’s Relief and Rescue Organization and Iran’s Emergency Organization at the same level via fixed phones, mobile phones, and wireless radios in response to disasters. Therefore, disturbance to accurate timely communication and information exchange between organizations, especially in the first 24 hours of a disaster and lack of inter-organizational agreements and communication infrastructure result in the further vulnerability of victims, Red Crescent rescuer, and emergency technicians.

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Experiences of Experts with Communication and Information Exchange in Response to Disasters

2022

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“…Since then, Taiwan's disaster management system has evolved as it was challenged by multiple extreme events. Several studies described and analyzed the design and evolution of the institutional structure of Taiwan's emergency management system (See Chen et al, 2006;Hsiung et al, 2010;Tso & McEntire, 2011;Wang, 2018).…”

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Managing Risk in Dynamic Conditions: Emerging Crises, Changing Technologies, and the Collective Capacity to Learn

Comfort¹,

Wang²

2022

Public Administration Quarterly

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Governing unexpected, extreme events requires a fundamental change in the design of planning processes and responsibilities to enable communities to manage novel risks in sustainable ways. The challenge is to create continuous learning processes for communities that include participants at diverse levels of knowledge, skill, vulnerability, and commitment to reducing risk not only for themselves, but for the whole community. To investigate the problem of collective learning under stress, we analyzed processes of organizational learning in the operational context of Taiwan over a series of extreme events, 1999-2020. While collective learning did occur in Taiwan, it is not clear that sustainable management of novel risks has been achieved. Finding the balance between social coherence and system control likely needs to be recalibrated for each new event.

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“…For instance, Jung et al (2019) emphasize that collaboration risks generated by the 2012 Korean typhoons may have encouraged organizations to establish collaborative ties with other organizations that possess critical resources and information, to increase resource mobilization. In a review of the recovery phases in the interorganizational disaster management field, Wang (2019) sought to reveal how formal institutions influence interorganizational interaction in two Taiwanese disaster management systems. This article reveals that formal institutions have both positive and negative effects on interorganizational interaction in disaster management contexts.…”

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The Multiplexity of Collaborative Networks in Post-Disaster Recovery: Testing Intra-Sector and Cross-Sector Network Contexts

Lin

Hsieh

Chen

2023

Administration & Society

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While disaster management provides an ideal testbed for interorganizational collaborative networks that pursue disaster assistance goals, limited research examines how multiplexity in multidimensional networks hinders disaster recovery efforts. This study examines the collaborative networks formed by intra-sector and cross-sector relationships among governments and NGOs in the context of post-disaster recovery, using a nationwide survey in Taiwan. The findings suggest that more heterogeneous contexts and more diversified network members would increase the complexity of network in it, and thus affecting network effectiveness of disaster management. Furthermore, NGO actors have faced the dilemma of building mutual ties through interorganizational and homogeneous collaboration.

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Disaster Response After Extreme Events in Taiwan: The Influence of Formal Institutions on Inter‐Organizational Interaction

Cited by 9 publications

References 75 publications

Experiences of Experts with Communication and Information Exchange in Response to Disasters

Experiences of Experts with Communication and Information Exchange in Response to Disasters

Managing Risk in Dynamic Conditions: Emerging Crises, Changing Technologies, and the Collective Capacity to Learn

The Multiplexity of Collaborative Networks in Post-Disaster Recovery: Testing Intra-Sector and Cross-Sector Network Contexts

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