How will we Manage Recovery from a Catastrophic Disaster? Organization Structure for Recovery Management in the World

2016 ◽  
Vol 11 (5) ◽  
pp. 889-896
Author(s):  
Norio Maki ◽  
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Laurie A. Johnson ◽  
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Keyword(s):  
Organization Theory ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Organization Structure ◽  
Great East Japan Earthquake ◽  
Organization Management ◽  
National Crisis ◽  
The World ◽  
Recovery Management ◽  
Emergent Organizations

The role of recovery organization management is important, and organizations in various forms have been established internationally to aid recovery from large-scale disasters. This paper clarifies three types of recovery organizations by analyzing them in various countries based on disaster organization theory. Furthermore, it analyzes recovery organizations that operated after the Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake and the Great East Japan Earthquake in Japan. It then examines the operations of recovery organizations during large-scale earthquakes that may lead to a national crisis by comparing recovery organizations internationally. Finally, this paper clarifies the necessity of “emergent” organizations.

scholarly journals A Large-Scale COVID-19 Twitter Chatter Dataset for Open Scientific Research—An International Collaboration

Epidemiologia ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 315-324
Author(s):  
Juan M. Banda ◽  
Ramya Tekumalla ◽  
Guanyu Wang ◽  
Jingyuan Yu ◽  
Tuo Liu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Social Dynamics ◽  
Additional Data ◽  
Open Data ◽  
Data Sources ◽  
Research Projects ◽  
Research Groups ◽  
The World ◽  
Data Source

As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to spread worldwide, an unprecedented amount of open data is being generated for medical, genetics, and epidemiological research. The unparalleled rate at which many research groups around the world are releasing data and publications on the ongoing pandemic is allowing other scientists to learn from local experiences and data generated on the front lines of the COVID-19 pandemic. However, there is a need to integrate additional data sources that map and measure the role of social dynamics of such a unique worldwide event in biomedical, biological, and epidemiological analyses. For this purpose, we present a large-scale curated dataset of over 1.12 billion tweets, growing daily, related to COVID-19 chatter generated from 1 January 2020 to 27 June 2021 at the time of writing. This data source provides a freely available additional data source for researchers worldwide to conduct a wide and diverse number of research projects, such as epidemiological analyses, emotional and mental responses to social distancing measures, the identification of sources of misinformation, stratified measurement of sentiment towards the pandemic in near real time, among many others.

scholarly journals Addressing the Haze: The Role of Local Traditional Cultures and Islamic Teachings

ICR Journal ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 97-100
Author(s):  
Shahino Mah Abdullah
Keyword(s):  
Growth Rate ◽  
Forest Fires ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Land Use Changes ◽  
Airborne Particles ◽  
Health Economy ◽  
Crop Growth Rate ◽  
The World ◽  
Related Mortality

The most frequent transboundary haze in the world takes place in Southeast Asia. It is usually caused by land-use changes, open burning, peat combustion, wildfires, and other farming activities. Serious haze occurred in 1983, 1997, 2005, 2006, 2009, 2010, 2013, 2015 and 2016, originating from large-scale forest fires in western Sumatra and southern Kalimantan, Indonesia. It caused adverse effects to locals as well as neighbouring countries, affecting their health, economy, agriculture, and biodiversity. Among the serious effects of haze are increased respiratory-related mortality due to toxic airborne particles, jet crashs and ship collisions due to restricted visibility, reduction of crop growth rate due to limited solar radiation, and extinction of endangered primates due to habitat loss. Neighbouring countries like Malaysia and Singapore sometimes have to close schools to prevent people from being exposed to air pollution, and its consequent respiratory ailments.  

Marketing in Hypermedia Computer-Mediated Environments: Conceptual Foundations

1996 ◽  
Vol 60 (3) ◽  
pp. 50-68 ◽  
Author(s):  
Donna L. Hoffman ◽  
Thomas P. Novak
Keyword(s):  
World Wide Web ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
World Wide ◽  
Structural Model ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Research Issues ◽  
Computer Mediated ◽  
The World ◽  
Conceptual Foundations

The authors address the role of marketing in hypermedia computer-mediated environments (CMEs). Their approach considers hypermedia CMEs to be large-scale (i.e., national or global) networked environments, of which the World Wide Web on the Internet is the first and current global implementation. They introduce marketers to this revolutionary new medium, propose a structural model of consumer navigation behavior in a CME that incorporates the notion of flow, and examine a series of research issues and marketing implications that follow from the model.

scholarly journals ‘The challenge now is for us to remain relevant’: Australian public libraries and the COVID-19 crisis

IFLA Journal ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 034003522110541
Author(s):  
Simon Wakeling ◽  
Jane Garner ◽  
Philip Hider ◽  
Hamid Jamali ◽  
Jessie Lymn ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Public Libraries ◽  
Public Library ◽  
Free Text ◽  
Open Questions ◽  
The World ◽  
Large Scale Survey ◽  
Almost All ◽  
Delivery Models

The COVID-19 crisis has had a significant impact on public libraries around the world. In Australia, almost all public libraries experienced some period of building closure, requiring libraries to adapt their services and delivery models. This article reports findings from a large-scale survey of public library managers in Australia, which was conducted in August 2020. In particular, it presents the results of a thematic analysis of the participants’ free-text responses to open questions asked as part of the survey. This analysis reveals important insights relating to responses to library closures, staffing issues, new and expanded services and programmes, relationships with parent bodies, and the role of public libraries during the crisis and beyond. While public libraries are perceived by managers to have been agile and adaptable, and to have utilised technology effectively, the findings clearly demonstrate the value to users of library buildings, with important consequences for understanding the role of public libraries.

“Role of Strategic Entrepreneurship to develop the enterprises”

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (01) ◽  
Author(s):  
Rashmi Gujrati ◽  
Hayri Uygun
Keyword(s):  
Organization Theory ◽  
Role Model ◽  
Resource Planning ◽  
Personal Satisfaction ◽  
Organization Behavior ◽  
Strategic Entrepreneurship ◽  
Knowledge And Skills ◽  
Financial Wealth ◽  
The World

Strategic Entrepreneurship plays a very important role in various areas such as economics psychology and social rather than organization behavior and Organization theory. In this paper we have merged statistical management and Entrepreneurship to strategic entrepreneurship. To grow strategic entrepreneurship we have focus and input what is out to explain our view of the buildup of strategic entrepreneurship. We try to add separate knowledge and skills to develop the strategic entrepreneurship specially tried to build and explore the resource planning practice which is important for strategic entrepreneurship. Through that its outcomes is for creating value for customers, increasing wealth for stakeholders and trying to develop the benefit for participants of society. Another entrepreneur also gets benefits and financial wealth products and personal satisfaction and joy. Which they need to get better. Therefore we developed a strategic entrepreneurships model to motivate entrepreneurs. Presently there are multiple types of entrepreneurs but they have not planned how to be successful. Moreover, there are a lot of successful entrepreneurs in the world. To find out why some entrepreneurs are successful and others are not successful. Even entrepreneur role model of the economic engine which motivates many nations' wealth.

Crystal River and the Archaeology of Early Village Societies in the American Southeast (and Beyond)

2018 ◽  
pp. 1-24
Author(s):  
Thomas J. Pluckhahn ◽  
Victor D. Thompson
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Public Works ◽  
Complex Societies ◽  
The People ◽  
Hunting And Gathering ◽  
The World ◽  
American Southeast ◽  
Crystal River ◽  
Village Societies

In the archaeology of the American Southeast, the Woodland period (from around 1000 B.C. to A.D. 1050) is not conventionally understood as an interval marked by significant “firsts.” But it was marked by a dramatic change in the way people related to one another, as indicated by the earliest widespread appearance of sedentary villages, often associated with large-scale public works like mounds of earth and shell. Crystal River and Roberts Island are examples of these “early villages,” a term archaeologists have used to describe similar societies around the world, typically in reference to societies making a transition from hunting and gathering to farming. However, the people of Crystal River and Roberts Island faced many of the same social and ecological pressures. Early villages are important for what they can tell us about the role of cooperation, collective action, and conflict in the historical process and development of larger and more complex societies.

Organization Behavior and Organization Theory

2013 ◽  
pp. 160-195
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Systems Theory ◽  
Organization Theory ◽  
Organization Structure ◽  
Technological Determinism ◽  
Organization Behavior ◽  
Sociotechnical Theory ◽  
And Behavior ◽  
Role Of It

In this chapter, the authors attempt to find a middle ground between optimism and pessimism by approaching organization theory and organization behavior empirically, first looking at the alleged effects of information technology on organization structure and then on behavior. After investigating some of the key questions that relate information technology to organization theory and behavior, the chapter expounds on the role of IT on both organizational theory and behavior in light of the theoretical themes of the book, specifically technological determinism, reinforcement theory, sociotechnical theory, and systems theory.

“I Can Still Fix This”

2020 ◽  
pp. 103-142
Author(s):  
Glen Donnar
Keyword(s):  
Science Fiction ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Film Adaptation ◽  
Suicide Bomber ◽  
National Crisis ◽  
The World ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The Devil

This chapter examines allegorical representations of living with terror, following large-scale catastrophe. It primarily analyzes a post-apocalyptic science fiction film, I Am Legend (2007), alongside an earlier film adaptation, The Omega Man (1971), and a touchstone film, The World, The Flesh, and The Devil (1959). Released in periods of national crisis, each deploys an iconic male star and a post-apocalypse to study American (and male) anxieties about race, class and gender. The chapter identifies how, in I Am Legend, paternal failure is entwined with the breakdown of society and the “final man” feminized in the succeeding post-apocalypse. The film outwardly assuages “protective” guilt through redemptive male sacrifice that reinvigorates a militarized masculinity. However, the chapter concludes that not only are females ultimately figured as redeemers, but also sacrificial paternal remasculinization irretrievably undermined by the hybrid indeterminacy of the vampire-zombie “terror-Other” and the hero’s becoming America’s most monstrous “terror-Other,” the suicide bomber.

Disclosure of Scandinavian telecom companies’ corruption in Uzbekistan: The role of investigative journalists

2018 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
pp. 73-88 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ester Pollack ◽  
Sigurd Allern
Keyword(s):  
Public Good ◽  
Crucial Role ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
The Past ◽  
The World ◽  
Good For ◽  
Public Sectors

Transparency International’s yearly Corruption Perceptions Index ranks Scandinavia as one of the least corrupt regions in the world. However, during the past decades, large Scandinavian corporations in the telecommunications, oil and defence industries have – in their struggle for business contracts in other countries – been involved in several large-scale bribery scandals. There has also been a growing range of corruption cases in the Swedish and Norwegian public sectors. In many of these cases, investigative journalists have played a crucial role in the disclosure of corruption, sometimes cooperating across media organisations and countries, demonstrating the importance of journalism as a public good for democracy. In this article, we explore, discuss and analyse the work of and methods used by investigative journalists in revealing large-scale corruption related to the expansion of Nordic telecom companies in Uzbekistan.

Transforming Governance: How National Policies and Organizations for Managing Disaster Recovery Evolved following the 4 September 2010 and 22 February 2011 Canterbury Earthquakes

2014 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 577-605 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laurie A. Johnson ◽  
Ljubica Mamula-Seadon
Keyword(s):  
Disaster Recovery ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
National Level ◽  
The United States ◽  
Time Period ◽  
The World ◽  
Government Capacity ◽  
Multiple Levels ◽  
Recovery Management ◽  
New Institutions

Large-scale disasters simultaneously deplete capital stock and services which then requires many complex rebuilding and societal activities to happen in a compressed time period; one of those is governance. Governments often create new institutions or adapt existing institutions to cope with the added demands. Over two years following the 4 September 2010 and 22 February 2011 Canterbury earthquakes, governance transformations have increasingly centralized recovery authority and operations at the national level. This may have helped to strengthen coordination among national agencies and expedite policy and decision making; but the effectiveness of coordination among multiple levels of government, capacity building at the local and regional levels, and public engagement and deliberation of key decisions are some areas where the transformations may not have been as effective. The Canterbury case offers many lessons for future disaster recovery management in New Zealand, the United States, and the world.

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