Achieving Agility in Disaster Management

Crisis Response and Management and Emerging Information Systems ◽

10.4018/978-1-60960-609-1.ch001 ◽

2011 ◽

pp. 1-11

Author(s):

John R. Harrald

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Decision Making ◽

Emergency Management ◽

Open Systems ◽

Social Science Research ◽

Science Research ◽

The United States ◽

Organizational Systems ◽

The Social ◽

Professional Practitioners

A significant body of social science research has concluded that improvisation in distributed, collaborative, open systems is the key to success in responding to and recovering from extreme events. The evolution of emergency management in the United States since the 9-11 attacks has emphasized the development of doctrine, process, and structure. In earlier work I concluded that both the agility desired by the social sciences and the discipline created by the professional practitioners are essential. This article explores how agility can be developed within a disciplined system and concludes that the keys are the development of outcome based goals, adaptive leadership, and technology that supports collaborative sense-making and decision making in open, organizational systems.

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Donald Fisher. Fundamental development of the social sciences: Rockefeller philanthropy and the United States social science research council. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1993. 309 pp. $49.50 (cloth) (Review by Howard S. Berliner)

Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences ◽

10.1002/1520-6696(199410)30:4<405::aid-jhbs2300300412>3.0.co;2-7 ◽

1994 ◽

Vol 30 (4) ◽

pp. 405-406

Keyword(s):

Social Sciences ◽

United States ◽

Research Council ◽

Social Science Research ◽

Science Research ◽

The United States ◽

University Of Michigan ◽

The Social ◽

Ann Arbor ◽

Science Research Council

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Historical Statistics of the United States, Colonial Times to 1957: A Statistical Abstract Supplement. Prepared by the Bureau of the Census with the Cooperation of the Social Science Research Council. (Washington, D. C.: U. S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census. 1960. Pp. xi, 789. $6.00.)

The American Historical Review ◽

10.1086/ahr/66.2.466 ◽

1961 ◽

Cited By ~ 7

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Social Science ◽

Research Council ◽

Social Science Research ◽

Science Research ◽

The United States ◽

Social Science Research Council ◽

The Social ◽

Department Of Commerce ◽

Science Research Council

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Introduction

A System of Pleas ◽

10.1093/oso/9780190689247.003.0001 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 1-8

Author(s):

Vanessa A. Edkins ◽

Allison D. Redlich

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Public Policy ◽

Decision Making ◽

Current System ◽

Social Science Research ◽

Science Research ◽

Plea Bargaining ◽

The United States ◽

Legal Research ◽

Defense Attorneys

While a great deal of psycho-legal research has focused on the trial process—and the decision making of jurors and juries, in particular—trials are not reflective of the current system of justice in the United States. Instead, we find ourselves within a system of pleas (Lafler v. Cooper, 2012) with a scarcity of social science research available to guide us. With this volume, we hope to integrate the current plea bargaining research that informs the field, from charging and defendant decision making, to attorney influences, to the ramifications at the larger system and institutional levels. Spanning multiple disciplines, the research and theories related to plea bargaining have much to contribute to public policy and to changes that individual actors (e.g., defense attorneys, prosecutors, and judges) may decide to incorporate in their daily interactions within our system of pleas.

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