Inter-institutional relationships and emergency management
by Fred Phillips
International Journal of Society Systems Science (IJSSS), Vol. 3, No. 1/2, 2011

Abstract: 'Public disasters', from the 1989 Exxon Valdez spill to the 2008 US mortgage meltdown, involved many agencies and institutions, and present new challenges for the design of networks of institutions. In improved networks of institutions: the fox must not guard the henhouse; accountability will be enhanced rather than clouded; remediation is quick, with blame assigned later. This paper highlights the need for, and sketches an outline of, a new field of high-performance inter-organisational interaction ('HPII'). It extends Linstone's 'Multiple perspectives' (MP) approach, and maps the dimensions of HPII against the extended MP schema. Examples drawn from recent disasters fill out the discussion, and research directions are outlined.

Online publication date: Fri, 27-Feb-2015

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