Collaborative emergency management and national emergency management network

    Authors

    N. Kapucu; T. Arslan;F. Demiroz

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    Abbreviated Journal Title

    Disaster Prev. Manag.

    Keywords

    Disasters; Emergency measures; Leadership; Decision making; CRISIS MANAGEMENT; DISASTER RESPONSE; HURRICANE KATRINA; COORDINATION; COMMUNICATION; INFORMATION; FEDERALISM; LEADERSHIP; STRATEGY; SECTOR; Environmental Studies; Public, Environmental & Occupational Health; Management

    Abstract

    Purpose - The 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/approach - Literature 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, emdrgency. network, interorganizational networks, Interorganizational and networks, intergovernmental and networks, and National Emergency Management Network (NEMN). Findings - The paper emphasizes that high expectations of public and stakeholders in emergency and disaster management require effective use of resources by collaborative networks. Practical implications - Emergency and disaster managers should be able to adopt their organization culture, structure and processes to the collaborative nature of emergency management. Originality/value - The paper focuses on a very important subject in emergency and disaster management using NEMN as example.

    Journal Title

    Disaster Prevention and Management

    Volume

    19

    Issue/Number

    4

    Publication Date

    1-1-2010

    Document Type

    Article

    Language

    English

    First Page

    452

    Last Page

    468

    WOS Identifier

    WOS:000291129100005

    ISSN

    0965-3562

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