Communicable Crises

Prevention, Response, and Recovery in the Global Arena

Deborah E. Gibbons

• Publisher: Information Age Publishing
• Year: 2007
• Print ISBN:
  9781593116071
  9781593116088
• eBook ISBN:
  9781607528074
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Public Relations
• Index: Social Sciences

This volume makes a significant contribution to the crisis management literature. It also adds to our inchoate understanding of network governance: temporary teams and task forces, communities of practice, alliances, and virtual organizations. It hints that the distinction between networks and organizations may be somewhat spurious, a matter of degree rather than kind. Indeed, it seems that this distinction may derive more from mental models in which we consistently reify organizations than anything else. Finally, the volume emphasizes the functional importance of leadership in network governance and puzzles over its provision in the absence of hierarchy. As such, it adds to the contributions made by Marc Granovetter (1973), John Seeley Brown and Paul Duguid (1991), Bart Nooteboom (2000), Paul J. DiMaggio (2001), John Arquilla and David Ronfeldt (2001), Laurence O'Toole and Ken Meier (2004), and others, as well as Nancy Roberts' seminal work on wicked problems and hastily formed teams. The result is a product the editor and the contributors can be proud of. Overall, it is one that will edify, surprise, and delight its readers.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Communicable Crises
• Series Page
• Communicable Crises: Prevention, Response, and Recovery in the Global Arena
• Copyright Page
• CONTENTS
• FOREWORD
• PREFACE
• 1: AGAINST DESPERATE PERIL
• 2 :ANTICIPATINGRUDE SURPRISES
• 3: TECHNOLOGICALTRANSFORMATION OFLOGISTICS IN SUPPORT OFCRISIS MANAGEMENT
• 4: IMPROVING DISASTERMANAGEMENT THROUGHSTRUCTURED FLEXIBILITYAMONG FRONTLINERESPONDERS
• 5: ASYMMETRIC INFORMATIONPROCESSES INEXTREME EVENTS
• 6: EMERGENTINSTITUTIONALISM
• 7: MAXIMIZING THE IMPACT OFDISASTER RESPONSE BYNONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONSAND VOLUNTEERS
• 8: HOW GOVERNMENTS CANHELP BUSINESSES WEATHER ACATACLYSMIC DISASTER
• 9: GLOBALIZATION ANDINTERNATIONALCOMMUNICABLE CRISES
• 10: CONSTRAINTS ON THE U.S.RESPONSE TOTHE 9/11 ATTACKS
• 11: SUPPORT FOR CRISISMANAGEMENT INASIA–PACIFIC
• 12: SYNTHESIZING PERSPECTIVESON RESPONSE TOCOMMUNICABLE CRISES
• ABOUT THE AUTHORS