Pandemics and the New Implications of Societal Security: A Reading of Crisis Management Processes

2020 ◽  
Vol 36 (2) ◽  
pp. 279-291
Author(s):  
Aicha A. Teyeb
Keyword(s):  
Crisis Management ◽  
Management Processes

  تهدف هذه الورقة لتقديم قراءة أولية في مسارات إدارة أزمة جائحة (19-COVID)، لا سيَّما في مجتمعاتنا العربية، وما أنتجته مجريات الانتشار السريع للفيروس من توسُّع أفقي في مفهوم الأمن وتعدُّد فاعليه وتجدُّد أساليبه وإستراتيجياته. وتطرح إشكاليةً تتساءل عن المستويات الجديدة التي برزت في مفهوم الأمن المجتمعي خلال يوميات الجائحة على مستوى الإدارة الرسميَّة من جهة، وعلى مستوى المكافحة المجتمعية غير الرسمية من جهة أخرى. واعتمدت الورقة على منهجيَّة وصفيَّة تحليليَّة حاولت تعقُّب أحداث الجائحة وتلمُّس صداها في وسائل الإعلام وفي مواقع التواصل الاجتماعي، واقتفاء أثر ما يصدر يوميًّا حتى تاريخ كتابة الورقة من الجهات والأجهزة الرسمية من بيانات ومعلومات وإحصاءات. ومن أهم النتائج المتوصل إليها نذكر بيان أهمية الدور الذي لعبته الشرائح الاجتماعية المختلفة في المجتمعات العربية في إنجاح إدارة الأزمة بإسهاماتها النوعيَّة في المكافحة المجتمعيَّة للفيروس، ودورها في معاضدة الجهود الرسميَّة في توفير الأمن الصحِّي والمجتمعي. كما تمّ الوقوف على دور الجائحة في مساعدة المجتمعات العربية على استعادة ثقتها بنفسها وكوادرها الأمنية والطبية، ودورها في إعادة اكتشاف تلك المجتمعات لأعماقها، وكسَّر أوهام الاعتماد المطلق على الغرب المتقدم، والعجز عن التصنيع. وتضمنت الورقة جملة من التوصيات منها عمل الجهات المختصة وطنيًّا وإقليميًّا على مزيد تثمين نتائج البحوث والدراسات العلمية والرفع من ميزانيات البحث العلمي وإعادة الاعتبار للعلماء والباحثين في مختلف الحقول والتخصُّصات. وأهمية الاعتماد على الكفاءات العلميَّة المتميزة في التخصُّصات العلمية والإنسانية والاجتماعية لمراجعة الخيارات الاقتصادية والإستراتيجية الكبرى في مجال التصنيع والغذاء والدواء والبحث العلمي. والعمل على تعزيز دور المنظمات الإقليمية العربية وتحفيزها على القيام بأدوار أكثر فاعلية في حماية المصالح المشتركة في ظل التهديدات المتنامية لمجتمع المخاطر العالمي.

scholarly journals THE PLACE OF MARKETING MEASURES IN THE ANTI-CRISIS MANAGEMENT SYSTEM

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mariia Bahorka ◽  
Iryna Kadyrus ◽  
Nataliy Yurchenko
Keyword(s):  
Crisis Management ◽  
Management System ◽  
Strategic Marketing ◽  
Enterprise Management ◽  
Management Processes ◽  
Stable Conditions ◽  
Crisis Phenomenon ◽  
Marketing Activities ◽  
And Control

The article conducts a study to determine the place of marketing in crisis management of the enterprise, established the role of the main aspects of crisis marketing in modern enterprises; mastered the mechanism of marketing anti-crisis management of enterprises, the purpose of which is to form a strategy for overcoming the crisis and eliminate the consequences of crisis phenomena. In the author's sense, crisis management should cover all subsystems of enterprise management: operational, technical, financial, and, especially, strategic, marketing, personnel. In the author's sense, crisis management should cover all subsystems of enterprise management: operational, technical, financial, and, especially, strategic, marketing, personnel. It is recognized that marketing in crisis management is not just one of the subsystems of the enterprise, but the basis that ensures the sustainability of all its other units. Anti-crisis marketing involves the prompt change of all components of marketing in accordance with changes in the environment, which helps to maintain maximum competitiveness of the company in market conditions. In the crisis of the organization or to prevent it, the same marketing tools are used as in stable conditions, but the goals and objectives of marketing activities change, which acquire new specific features, the main of which is the marketing anti-crisis program. The anti-crisis marketing program should ensure the production and sale of such goods that are in steady demand in the market and bring the company's main profit. The mechanism of anti-crisis marketing in the enterprise as a management system involves the presence of the object (crisis phenomena) and the subject of management, the formation of targeted management processes, subsystem monitoring environment and forecasting: determination of the stage, parameters, volumes and scales of the crisis phenomenon, development, implementation and control of anti-crisis strategies, etc.), choice of means and methods of management, creation of a clear system of adjustment and feedback. The end result of marketing anti-crisis management of the enterprise is the formation and implementation of marketing anti-crisis strategy.

scholarly journals The Resource Hazards Model for the Critical Infrastructure of the State Emergency Management Process

2014 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 49-60 ◽  
Author(s):  
Teresa Ostrowska
Keyword(s):  
Emergency Management ◽  
Crisis Management ◽  
Critical Infrastructure ◽  
Resource Model ◽  
Effective Protection ◽  
Perceived Need ◽  
Hazards Model ◽  
Management Processes ◽  
Potential Risks ◽  
Relevant Factors

AbstractThis paper presents an investigation of the relevant factors related to the construction of a resource model which is designed to be useful in the management processes of the operation of critical infrastructure (CI) for state emergencies. The genesis of the research lay in the perceived need for effective protection of multidimensional CI methodologies, and it was influenced by the nature of the physical characteristics of the available resources. It was necessary to establish a clear structure and well defined objectives and to assess the functional and structural resources required, as well as the potential relational susceptibilities deriving from a number of possible threats and the possible seriousness of a specific range of incidents and their possible consequences. The interdependence of CI stocks is shown by the use of tables of resource classes. The dynamics of the interaction of CI resources are modeled by examining how using clusters of potential risks can at any given time create a class of compounds related to susceptibilities and threats to the resources. As a result, the model can be used to conduct multi-dimensional risk calculations for crisis management CI resource configurations.

Decreasing Aftermath Large Extraordinary Situations via the Simulations

2014 ◽  
Vol 1001 ◽  
pp. 453-457
Author(s):  
Lenka Maléřová ◽  
Marek Smetana ◽  
Michaela Drozdová
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
Crisis Management ◽  
Research Program ◽  
Safety Engineering ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Safety Research ◽  
Management Processes ◽  
Rescue System ◽  
Life Education

In 2010, the Faculty of Safety Engineering at the VSB – Technical University of Ostrava (FBI VŠB-TUO) commenced work on the SIMPROKIM (Simulation of crisis management processes in the system of whole-life education of the integrated rescue system (IRS) units and public administration bodies) project. The SIMPROKIM project falls under the framework of Safety research program, financed by the Ministry of Interior of the Czech Republic (MI CR), for which two main objectives have been determined:

scholarly journals ORGANIZATIONAL INNOVATIONS AS A “NEW OLD” TOOL OF CRISIS PREVENTIVE OPERATION OF BUSINESS: REGIONAL ASPECT

2018 ◽  
pp. 78-88
Author(s):  
Svetlana Alekseevna Rylshchikova ◽  
Nataliya Aleksandrovna Dubinina ◽  
Galina Stepanovna Merzlikina
Keyword(s):  
Crisis Management ◽  
Organizational Innovation ◽  
Russian Economy ◽  
Regional Aspect ◽  
Management Processes ◽  
Volgograd Region ◽  
Low Degree ◽  
Rehabilitation Potential ◽  
Degree Of Satisfaction ◽  
Organizational Innovations

In the modern Russian economy, bankruptcy procedures and crisis management processes have been updated. The rehabilitation potential of bankruptcy is practically not working. Financial recovery procedures are rare and, as a rule, not successful. Competitive production with a very low degree of satisfaction of the creditors dominates. The causes of the crisis of individual economic entities are either incompetent management or ineffective anti-crisis management. Preventive crisis management, as a process of foreseeing and forecasting positive and negative crises (according to the results) should be theoretically justified and methodically ensured. The theory of preventive anti-crisis management is determined by the main directions, but the methodological support is not enough, despite the abundance of various economic and financial instruments. Innovations can be considered as preventive crisis operation tools; however, organizational innovations are limited and hardly used. Among the organizational innovations a special place is given to corporatization which can be considered as a “new old” tool of preventive crisis operation. The corporatization of the former unitary enterprises is being promoted. The article presents the procedure of corporatization of three specific unitary enterprises of the Volgograd region. A tool for assessing the efficiency of corporatization as an example of organizational innovation - a strategic map developed by the authors - has been proposed and tested. There have been identified the problems of evaluating the effectiveness of organizational innovation: generalized quantitative evaluation of the effectiveness, and necessity of using qualitative indicators (the complexity of generalized assessment and risk of subjectivity).

scholarly journals Learning to Learn; Learning to Win: How to Succeed in the Simulated World of Model NATO

2008 ◽  
Vol 41 (04) ◽  
pp. 865-869 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrey A. Meleshevich ◽  
Howard Tamashiro
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Experiential Learning ◽  
International Relations ◽  
Crisis Management ◽  
Role Playing ◽  
Learning To Learn ◽  
National Interests ◽  
Teaching Device ◽  
Howard University ◽  
Management Processes

Simulations and role-playing exercises have been used effectively as a teaching device in all areas of political science and international relations. One such simulation, with 20 years of success, is the Model NATO Conference, currently sponsored annually in Washington, D.C., by Howard University and Kent State University's Center for International and Comparative Studies. Model NATO is an intercollegiate, competitive, and experiential learning exercise that models the decision-making and crisis management processes of NATO. Student delegations, representing different NATO member-countries, negotiate consensus agreements while promoting their often conflicting national interests. According to the Model NATO web site, this competition is designed to

British Crisis Management in a European and Regional Context

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Connolly ◽  
Dominic Elliott
Keyword(s):  
Crisis Management ◽  
National Level ◽  
National Crisis ◽  
Management Processes ◽  
Multiple Levels ◽  
Management Approaches ◽  
Globalized World ◽  
Crisis Managers ◽  
Political Decisions ◽  
Governance Arrangements

In a globalized world, national-level policymakers make decisions, often during times of crisis and uncertainty, which have implications for neighboring territories. Britain is an example of a nation state that has had to accommodate such a multi-level context in the management of crises. What is clear is that the processes of crisis management rely heavily on the effectiveness and strength of policy relationships at multiple levels of governance. Managing and coordinating crises in these contexts represents a challenge for national crisis managers as these complex governance landscapes produce uncertainties and can reveal ambiguities when it comes to identifying “who” is the dominant crisis manager. For example, the challenges of global health threats, such as the COVID-19 pandemic, highlight how modern governance arrangements breed vulnerabilities for states due to the interconnection of infrastructures and systems. The lack of clarity with regards to who is accountable for the performance of crisis management approaches within complex government environments open up windows of opportunity for blame and ideological games to take effect. Crisis management research highlights that the effectiveness of transnational crisis management depends on policy relationships within and between networks, including the extent to which national technocratic actors feature in the political decisions that affect crisis governance arrangements. Policy relationships themselves are also shaped by the contexts and dynamics of regional and territorial governance, Europeanization processes, and the internationalization of crisis management—all of which produce their own political tensions for the workings and autonomy of national crisis managers. Understanding such complexities is key for researching British crisis management processes.

scholarly journals Flood Management in Aqala through an Agent-Based Solution and Crowdsourcing Services in an Enterprise Geospatial Information System

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (9) ◽  
pp. 420 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hooshang Eivazy ◽  
Mohammad Reza Malek
Keyword(s):  
Information System ◽  
Crisis Management ◽  
Flood Management ◽  
Mathematical Framework ◽  
Geospatial Information ◽  
Agent Based ◽  
Data Schema ◽  
Management Processes ◽  
Present Solution ◽  
Multi Agent

Propagating crowdsourcing services via a wireless network can be an appropriate solution to using the potential of crowds in crisis management processes. The present study aimed to deploy crowdsourcing services properly to spatial urgent requests. Composing such atomic services can conquer sophisticated crisis management. In addition, the conducted propagated services guide people through crisis fields and allow managers to use crowd potential appropriately. The use of such services requires a suitable automated allocation method, along with a proper approach to arranging the sequence of propagating services. The solution uses a mathematical framework in the context of a GIS (Geospatial Information System) in order to construct an allocation approach. Solution elements are set out in a multi-agent environment structure, which simulate disaster field objects. Agents which are dynamically linked to objects in a crisis field, interact with each other in a competitive environment, and the results in forming crowdsourcing services are used to guide crowds in the crisis field via the crowdsourcing services. The present solution was implemented through a proper data schema in a powerful geodatabase, along with various users with specialized interfaces. Finally, a solution and crowdsourcing service was tested in the context of a GIS in the 2019 Aqala flood disaster in Iran and other complement scenarios. The allocating performance and operation of other system elements were acceptable and reduced indicators, such as rescuer fatigue and delay time. Crowdsourcing service was positioned well in the solution and provided good performance among the elements of the Geospatial Information System.

Supporting Crisis Management Processes by Wirelessly Interconnected Tablet-PCs

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cláudio Sapateiro ◽  
Pedro Antunes ◽  
Gustavo Zurita ◽  
Nelson Baloian ◽  
Rodrigo Vogt
Keyword(s):  
Crisis Management ◽  
Tablet Pcs ◽  
Management Processes
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