Innovations in anticipation of crisis organizational preparations for natural disasters and civil disturbances.

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Weller, Jack M

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TextLanguage: ENG Series: Dissertation (University of Delaware. Disaster Research Center) ; 13Publication details: 1972Description: 169p., 90 refs, 10 tabs, 1 figReport number: AcademicSubject: Civil disturbancesSubject: Disaster responseSubject: One hundred and three organizations with responsibility to respond to either natural disasters or civil disturbances are studied for their preparations for these responses. The study explores the nature and conditions for organizational innovations anticipating responses to natural disaster or civil disturbance. An elaborate classification of the organizational characteristics of these innovations is developed. The study concludes that there are significant differences in the organizational nature of these innovations, and that organizational relationships are a source of both stability and innovation depending on whether the interorganizational field is promoting normative definitions consistent with proposed innovations.Subject: Organizational behaviorSubject: Organizational changeSubject: Organizations

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Presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the Graduate School of the Ohio State University

Civil disturbances

Disaster response

One hundred and three organizations with responsibility to respond to either natural disasters or civil disturbances are studied for their preparations for these responses. The study explores the nature and conditions for organizational innovations anticipating responses to natural disaster or civil disturbance. An elaborate classification of the organizational characteristics of these innovations is developed. The study concludes that there are significant differences in the organizational nature of these innovations, and that organizational relationships are a source of both stability and innovation depending on whether the interorganizational field is promoting normative definitions consistent with proposed innovations.