Collaborative Crisis Management

Inter-Organizational Approaches to Extreme Events

Fredrik Bynander, Daniel Nohrstedt, Fredrik Bynander, Daniel Nohrstedt

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2019
• eBook ISBN: 9780429534515
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: Politics
• Index: Politics & International Relations

Public organizations are increasingly expected to cope with crisis under the same resource constraints and mandates that make up their normal routines, reinforced only through collaboration. Collaborative Crisis Management introduces readers to how collaboration shapes societies' capacity to plan for, respond to, and recover from extreme and unscheduled events.

Placing emphasis on five conceptual dimensions, this book teaches students how this panacea works out on the ground and in the boardrooms, and how insights on collaborative practices can shed light on the outcomes of complex inter-organizational challenges across cases derived from different problem areas, administrative cultures, and national systems. Written in a concise, accessible style by experienced teachers and scholars, it places modes of collaboration under an analytical microscope by assessing not only the collaborative tools available to actors but also how they are used, to what effect, and with which adaptive capacity. Ten empirical chapters span different international cases and contexts discussing:

• Natural and "man-made" hazards: earthquakes, hurricanes, wildfires, terrorism, migration flows, and violent protests
• Different examples of collaborative institutions, such as regional economic communities in Africa, and multi-level arrangements in Canada, the Netherlands, Turkey, and Switzerland
• Application of a multimethod approach, including single case studies, comparative case studies, process-tracing, and "large-n" designs.

Collaborative Crisis Management is essential reading for those involved in researching and teaching crisis management.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• List of Figures
• Appendices
• List of Tables
• List of Contributors
• 1 Collaborative Crisis Management: Inter-Organizational Approaches to Extreme Events
• 2 Upscaling Collaborative Crisis Management: A Comparison of Wildfire Responder Networks in Canada and Sweden
• 3 Secure Summits: Collaborative Crisis Management Before and During Global Government Conventions
• 4 Managing Extraordinary Influx of Migrants: The 2015 Migration Crisis in Sweden
• 5 Overcoming Collective-Action Problems in Collaborative Crisis Management: Meta-Governance and Security Communications Systems
• 6 Vertical Collaboration During the 2014 Swedish Wildfire
• 7 Collaborative Crisis Management in Turkey: Perceptions and Outcomes of Collaboration During Two Earthquakes
• 8 Transregional Crisis Management in Africa
• 9 Addressing the Challenges of Transboundary Crises: The Dutch Local Response to the Global Surge in ISIS Supporters
• 10 Avoiding the Failures of Collaborative Crisis Management: Lessons from Research and Practice
• 11 Under What Conditions Does an Extreme Event Deploy its Focal Power?: Toward Collaborative Governance in Swiss Flood Risk Management
• 12 Lessons and Avenues for Future Research in Collaborative Crisis Management
• Index