Unrecognized crisis management—Normalizing everyday work

Oscarsson, Olof; Danielsson, Erna

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“…They therefore have the professional knowledge, equipment, training and skills to resolve incidents [9]. However, what is missing are studies on latent crisis organizations [3,10], i.e. organizations in which emergency or rescue responses are not part of the work, and where the staff are not explicitly trained to deal with uncertainties and disruptions-in other words, any other common organization.…”

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Trust and Organization: Integrating Responses to Freshwater Contamination within the Everyday Work of a Care Organization

Sparf¹

2018

Crisis Management - Theory and Practice

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In order to cut the word count I rewrote the entire abstract. Please replace with: Crisis management literature regularly focuses on large-scale incidents, crisis management organizations, and a managerial top-down approach. In reality, many crisis situations are small scale and local, involve non-emergency organizations, and often affect the entire organization. This chapter addresses this lacuna by fleshing out the empirical case of the outbreak of a waterborne parasite in a small municipality in Northern Sweden. The analysis showed that the outbreak affected the whole organization and was managed by the active agency of operative personnel and central experts. Additionally, findings suggest that spheres of action and different time-spatial framings were decisive elements in managing the crisis. The study concludes that issues of trust and the organizational setting influenced the framing and handling of the outbreak. In particular, the level of vertically directed trust established before the outbreak, along with the relatively high independence of the different units at operational level, played a decisive role in the integration of the outbreak in the everyday work of the organization. The paper calls for the development of organization theory addressing non-emergency organizations, small-scale events, and the integration of adverse events in the formal and social structures of everyday work.

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Trust and Organization: Integrating Responses to Freshwater Contamination within the Everyday Work of a Care Organization

Sparf¹

2018

Crisis Management - Theory and Practice

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“…Associated areas including disaster studies (Andersen 2008;Silvast 2017), crisis management studies (Danielsson 2016;Oscarsson and Danielsson 2018), and preparedness studies, have perhaps to a larger extent than risk research oriented empirical studies towards practices and intersecting practices. Preparedness studies, for example, have hitherto been dominated by what Heidenstrøm (2020) refers to as 'formal preparedness'.…”

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“…The scope of preparedness is thus expanded to include 'informal resources', making the argument that even though people do not think about or engage in explicit preparedness activities, they can be quite wellprepared (Heidenstrøm and Throne-Holst 2020). In crisis management studies, the practice perspective has been used to highlight the routinised work professionals are doing by improvising, adapting, and normalising crisis management to fit a wider social and cultural context, and how these practices deviate from traditional crisis management (Oscarsson and Danielsson 2018).…”

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The utility of social practice theory in risk research

Heidenstrøm

2021

Journal of Risk Research

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Social science risk studies often begin with one of two starting points: a particular risk, such as that of natural or technical disasters, or, alternately, with the individual experiencing risk. But risk may not be the guiding concept for how people act in the social world. This article explores how social practice theory broadens the possible starting points for social science risk research and in turn improve our understanding of risk. It does so by drawing on existing empirical studies within risk research that make use of practice-oriented theories and outline three essential arguments for practice-based risk research. First, that risk is understood as embedded in socially shared practices, second, that risk is routinised, and third, that risk is present in both social and material relations. Together, these arguments make out an analytical starting point of 'practices of interest and intersecting practices', representing a methodological situationalism, where actions rather than actors are at the core of research. In conclusion, a sensibility for practice in risk research is suggested.

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“…Coronakrisen har främst ramats in som en ekonomisk kris och en kris för framförallt sjukvården och äldreomsorgen. Denna inramning påverkar vilka krishanteringspraktiker som väljs och legitimeras, vad samhället informerar om, men även vilka grupper som det offentliga prioriterar stöd till (Oscarsson & Danielsson 2018). Här blir sociologisk kunskap viktig för att öka förståelsen för hur definitioner och inramning påverkar både fördelningen av hjälpresurser och att vissa aktörer ges extraordinära maktresurser.…”

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Sociologiska perspektiv på coronakrisen

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Sociologisk Forskning bad fyra sociologer i Sverige att svara på några korta frågor om coronapandemin och vårt samhälles hantering av den. Deras tidigare forskning har på olika sätt berört olika frågor såsom socialmedicin och medicinsk kunskapsproduktion, sociala nätverks betydelse för smittspridning, samhällets hantering av kriser och risker, genusaspekter av samhällskriser samt dynamiken mellan expertis, politiker och medborgare i beslutsfattande och debatter kring frågor där expertkunskap är centralt. De fyra medverkande forskarna är Erna Danielsson, docent i sociologi vid Mittuniversitetet och föreståndare för Risk and Crisis Research Centre (RCR), som forskar om samhällets krishantering vid såväl vardagskriser som större händelser och specifikt genus och krishantering; Fredrik Liljeros, professor i sociologi vid Stockholms universitet, som genomförde sitt postdoktorprojekt på dåvarande Smittskyddsinstitutet tillsammans med nuvarande statsepidemiologen Anders Tegnell och i dag bedriver forskning om hur människors kontaktnätverk påverkar spridningsdynamik; Shai Mulinari, docent i sociologi vid Lunds universitet, som bedriver forskning om medicinsk kunskapsproduktion, läkemedelsindustrin, epidemiologi och folkhälsa; samt Linda Soneryd, professor i sociologi vid Göteborgs universitet, som forskat om miljörelaterade risker och kriser samt om hur demokrati och deltagande förstås i anslutning till expertfrågor.

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Unrecognized crisis management—Normalizing everyday work

Cited by 30 publications

References 27 publications

Trust and Organization: Integrating Responses to Freshwater Contamination within the Everyday Work of a Care Organization

Trust and Organization: Integrating Responses to Freshwater Contamination within the Everyday Work of a Care Organization

The utility of social practice theory in risk research

Sociologiska perspektiv på coronakrisen

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