...Toshio Miyazawa Purpose Japan’s crisis management has long been criticized for inefficiency, suggesting that existing analyses have overlooked deeper systematic issues. This study examines whether the primary inhibitors of Japan’s crisis management performance stem from formal “institutional...

...Victor Meyer Jr; Miguel Piña e Cunha; Diórgenes Falcão Mamédio; Danillo Prado Nogueira Purpose The focus of this study was to analyze crisis management in a context of high-reliability organizations (HRO) evidenced in two cases of Brazilian air disasters. Aspects of human and technological natures...

... only Crisis management Machine learning Rescue operations Response schedules In the Polish crisis management system, the basic planning document is a crisis management plan, which is prepared at the four administrative levels of the country, namely: national, voivodship, poviat...

...Gerry Larsson; Fredrik Bynander; Alicia Ohlsson; Erik Schyberg; Martin Holmberg Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to gain a deeper understanding of crisis management at the Swedish Government office level in an international crisis by using a multiperspective approach, and paying particular...

... 2012 Business contingency process Business continuity planning Business continuity Crisis management Senior management Training Strategic IT‐ and information security is part of the business continuity planning in organizations, and the business continuity plan (BCP) is one...

... of crisis management in addition to emergency management, e.g. building a shared mental model, and requirements of inter‐professional communication. Originality/value Psychological demands of crisis situations in public transport have not yet been a focus of research or training. © Emerald Group...

... two, reflection, where difficult choices and dilemmas faced are recalled, and future concerns are expressed. Research limitations/implications The sample is small and range of experience is limited, since both municipalities studied have been fairly successful in their crisis management...

... the bank’s information as it pertained to retail banking, combine it in one place, and provide tools to enable end users to easily access the information. © MCB UP Limited 1999 Banking Crisis management Contingency planning Disaster recovery Electronic data processing The need...

... and communications degradation during crises are used to explain behavioural (cultural changes) distortion. Total risk management is presented as a notional solution to these problems. © Company 1999 Communications Crisis management Culture There are few that would argue that the socio...

... decisions which are critically time bound. Decisions such as which sector to search for survivors, where water supplies should be located, and how transport should be allocated, often need to be made immediately. © MCB UP Limited 1996 Crisis management Decision making Models...

.... © MCB UP Limited 1995 Crisis management Disaster management Disasters Strategic management Heavy damage to structures occurred up to 70 kilometres from Awaji Island, including much of the urban area around the city of Kobe (some 24 kilometres or 15 miles from the epicentre...

... positions lie behind these problems. Flood warning systems are developing in Scotland, and there is now a “fledgling”system in Northern Ireland, but both lag behind England and Wales. Examines implications for the future. © MCB UP Limited 1995 Communications Crisis management Floods...

..., in various and often inconsistent senses. © MCB UP Limited 1995 Contingency planning Crisis management Disaster management Disasters Housing Terminology USA There is a somewhat exotic field of study called the sociology of science that basically examines the factors involved...

... Crisis management Disaster management Disasters USA War The end of the Cold War brought with it humanitarian disasters of increased complexity. To a degree never before experienced, humanitarian aid organizations were confronted with contexts so violent that many chose to hire armed guards...

... Limited 1995 Australia Co‐ordination Crisis management Disaster management Emergency services Expert systems Policy Technology The manifest symptom of weakness in contemporary policy capability,for Dror[ 1 ] at least, is the“scarcity of think tanks serving government”. Most...

... to the credibility of the message. © MCB UP Limited 1995 Communications Crisis management Disaster management Hazards Industry Information Italy Trust This research was carried out under the aegis of the European Community as part of the Step Programme. Researchers from the following...

.... Discusses lessons learned from the live exercise. Air Force Co‐ordination Crisis management Disaster planning Emergency services Exercise Local government United Kingdom “Visitors entering RAF Fairford do so entirely at their own risk” – so states the small print in the International Air...

...‐organizational in orientation than the economic‐market‐oriented business‐failure literature. Third, whereas business failure situations damage the quality of personal, social and work‐life the socio‐technical disaster destroys lives. © MCB UP Limited 1994 Crisis management Disasters...

.... Overviews the relationship of organizational behaviour to crisis management and analyses the impact of trauma upon workers at one department of large oil exploration company operating in Alaska. Reaches beyond anecdotal surveys to include an analysis of employee turnover in the immediate department...

... in the past six years there is a clarion need for management to examine how well they have prepared their entire staff for the potentiality that a traumatic event could cause chaos for all levels of the organization. © MCB UP Limited 1993 Crisis management Employees Managers Psychology Stress ...