Games, Signal Detection, and Processing in the Context of Crisis Management

Autor: George D. Kraft, Tobin Hensgen, Kevin C. Desouza
Rok vydání: 2003
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Zdroj: Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management. 11:67-77
ISSN: 1468-5973
0966-0879
DOI: 10.1111/1468-5973.1102003
Popis: In today’s uncertain economic times, the impact of organisational crises is stronger than ever (Lagadec, 1993). For organisations, crisis may be defined as an organisationally based disaster, which causes extensive damage, social and economical disruption, and involves multiple stakeholders (Shrivastava et al., 1988). Today we are discovering that the scope and impact of crises have the ability to produce a bold ripple effect that forces a reshaping of attitudes and realities among all organisational and social processes. Current events have been so impacted by the concept of crisis that management now regards it in terms of policy rather than as some afterthought under the heading of exceptions. The repercussions from the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon have taken their toll at a number of levels, from personal grief, to the slow down in the economy; it also provides a new dimension to the public sector’s concern with crisis. The domain of large scale organisational crisis has been addressed conceptually and empirically in the literature (Mitroff et al., 1988; Lagadec, 1990; Pearson and Mitroff, 1993; Roberts, 1990; Weick, 1988, 1990, 1993). Because of the multifaceted nature of the phenomena much of the related literature is dispersed among fields of psychology, sociology, international politics, and information technology (Pauchant and Douville, 1993). Still, the search continues for the Rosetta Stone to provide a working abstract on crisis that strengthens all contingency planning programs. A review of methods associated with Pre-crisis planning is considered essential to this search for such solutions (Quarantelli 1988). The purpose of our discussion is to provide a universal mechanism that may be applied to most existing crisis plans in an effort to obviate potential problems tied to complexity in decisions during potential crisis.
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