Organizational Adaptation in Multi-Stakeholder Crisis Response: An Experimental Study

Summary, in English

Modern day crises demand organizations to collaborate and adapt to new roles, functions and structures. In such situations, lack of collaborative behaviour and openness between organizations can result in reduced adaptive ability. Therefore, it is important to facilitate

collaboration between organizations.We have studied the extent to which crisis managers are prepared to work with personnel and resources from organizations other than their own when responding to crises. An experiment was designed with four different organizations in Sweden, which involved decision making concerning whether the participants

systematically favoured their own organization over others. Findings indicate that increasing familiarity and expectation of future cooperation with other organizations increased the likelihood that decision makers would be prepared to work with other

organizations in joint crisis management.

• Author: Roshni Pramanik; Olof Ekman; Henrik Hassel; Henrik Tehler
• Department/s: Division of Risk Management and Societal Safety; Centre for Societal Resilience
• Publishing year: 2015
• Language: English
• Pages: 234-245
• Publication/Series: Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management
• Volume: 23
• Issue: 4
• Links: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1468-5973.12094
• Document type: Journal article
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell, John Wiley & Sons Inc.
• Topic: Social Sciences Interdisciplinary
• Keywords: interorganizational collaboration; crisis response management; collaborative behaviour; organizational adaptation.
• Status: Published
• Research group: LUCRAM (Lund University Center for Risk Analysis and Management
• ISBN/ISSN/Other: ISSN: 1468-5973