Achieving efficiency in coordinated action in rapidly changing environments has challenged both researchers and practitioners. Emergency events require both rapid response and effective coordination among participating organizations. We created a simulated operations environment using...

One way to assess whether governments (at any level) learn from their disaster experience is to examine two similar events at different points in time. We investigate and compare the 1989 EXXON VALDEZ oil spill disaster with the 2010 BP Deepwater Horizon oil platform and oil spill disaster to...

Local governments face threats from natural and man-made disasters, but tightening budgets create difficulty in developing the resource and information capacity to meet these challenges. In the aftermath of September 11, 2001, the federal government provided a variety of grants for equipment and...

This paper applies a complex adaptive systems framework to the organisational landscape of social housing in Ireland in order to address questions related to the challenges implied by the recent changes in housing policy both North and South of the border. In particular, we focus on the process...

Operating under rapidly changing conditions, organizations face various challenges that can damage core competencies and collaborative partnerships that have been developed for normal operations. To address these challenges, organizations need to learn from previous events, develop relevant...