Collaborative emergency management and national emergency management network

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, emergency 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 or...

[1]  Brandon J. Hardenbrook.  The Need for a Policy Framework to Develop Disaster Resilient Regions , 2005 .

[2]  Bok-Tae Kim,et al.  Power and Cognitive Accuracy in Local Emergency Management Networks , 2007 .

[3]  Myrna Mandell,et al.  Evaluating Network Arrangements: Toward Revised Performance Measures , 2007 .

[4]  A. Farazmand.  Learning from the Katrina Crisis: A Global and International Perspective with Implications for Future Crisis Management , 2007 .

[5]  Kevin A. Kloesel,et al.  OK-FIRST: An Example of Successful Collaboration between the Meteorological and Emergency Response Communities on 3 May 1999 , 2002 .

[6]  Alexander Kouzmin,et al.  Communicating throughout Katrina: Competing and Complementary Conceptual Lenses on Crisis Communication , 2007 .

[7]  Tracy Cooper,et al.  Administrative Failure and the International NGO Response to Hurricane Katrina , 2007 .

[8]  L. Bingham,et al.  Big Ideas in Collaborative Public Management , 2008 .

[9]  L. Comfort.  Crisis Management in Hindsight: Cognition, Communication, Coordination, and Control , 2007 .

[10]  Michael Mcguire.  Answering the Big Questions, Asking the Bigger Questions: Expanding the Public Network Management Empirical Research Agenda , 2007 .

[11]  Vicki M. Bier,et al.  Hurricane Katrina as a Bureaucratic Nightmare , 2006 .

[12]  Enrico L Quarantelli,et al.  Problematical aspects of the information/ communication revolution for disaster planning and research: ten non‐technical issues and questions , 1997 .

[13]  John C. Morris,et al.  Reaching for the Philosopher's Stone: Contingent Coordination and the Military's Response to , 2007 .

[14]  Ronald S. Burt,et al.  Testing a Structural Theory of Corporate Cooptation: Interorganizational Directorate Ties as a Strategy for Avoiding Market Constraints on Profits , 1980 .

[15]  Michael Shaw,et al.  Managing Coordination in Emergency Response Systems with Information Technologies , 2004, AMCIS.

[16]  N. Kapucu.  Interagency Communication Networks During Emergencies , 2006 .

[17]  Wenpin Tsai,et al.  Social networks and organizations , 2003 .

[18]  Jörg Raab,et al.  Where Do Policy Networks Come From , 2002 .

[19]  L. Comfort,et al.  Coordination in Rapidly Evolving Disaster Response Systems , 2004 .

[20]  William L. Waugh.  EMAC, Katrina, and the Governors of Louisiana and Mississippi , 2007 .

[21]  Maarten van Someren,et al.  Task-Adaptive Information Distribution for Dynamic Collaborative Emergency Response , 2006 .

[22]  C. V. Anderson,et al.  The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) , 2002 .

[23]  Rui Chen,et al.  Design principles for critical incident response systems , 2007, Inf. Syst. E Bus. Manag..

[24]  E. Stern,et al.  The Politics of Crisis Management: Public Leadership under Pressure , 2005 .

[25]  W. Waugh,et al.  Terrorism, Homeland Security and the National Emergency Management Network , 2003 .

[26]  Angela L. Bies,et al.  The Role of Nonprofits in Disaster Response: An Expanded Model of Cross-Sector Collaboration , 2007 .

[27]  Naim Kapucu,et al.  The Evolving Role of the Public Sector in Managing Catastrophic Disasters , 2006 .

[28]  J. Fountain.  Comment: Disciplining public management research , 1994 .

[29]  Rebecca Knuth,et al.  Sovereignty, Globalism, and Information Flow in Complex Emergencies , 1999, Inf. Soc..

[30]  D. Paton.  Preparing for natural hazards: The role of community trust , 2007 .

[31]  Jeanne‐Marie Col,et al.  Managing Disasters: The Role of Local Government , 2007 .

[32]  Michael X Cohen,et al.  Harnessing Complexity: Organizational Implications of a Scientific Frontier , 2000 .

[33]  Laurence J. O'Toole.  Interorganizational Relations in Implemetation , 2003 .

[34]  Donald P. Moynihan,et al.  Learning Under Uncertainty: Networks in Crisis Management , 2008 .

[35]  C. Ansell,et al.  Collaborative Governance in Theory and Practice , 2007 .

[36]  William Lester,et al.  Business “Not” as Usual: The National Incident Management System, Federalism, and Leadership , 2007 .

[37]  Giovan Francesco Lanzara,et al.  EPHEMERAL ORGANIZATIONS IN EXTREME ENVIRONMENTS: EMERGENCE, STRATEGY, EXTINCTION [I] , 1983 .

[38]  W. Waugh,et al.  Collaboration and Leadership for Effective Emergency Management , 2006 .

[39]  Martha Derthick.  Where Federalism Didn’t Fail , 2007 .