Citation
(2012), "2011 Awards for Excellence", Disaster Prevention and Management, Vol. 21 No. 1. https://doi.org/10.1108/dpm.2012.07321aaa.002
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Copyright © 2012, Emerald Group Publishing Limited
2011 Awards for Excellence
2011 Awards for Excellence
Article Type: 2011 Awards for Excellence From: Disaster Prevention and Management, Volume 21, Issue 1.
The following article was selected for this year's Outstanding Paper Award for Disaster Prevention and Management
“Collaborative emergency management and national emergency management network”
Naim KapucuDepartment of Public Administration, University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida, USA
Tolga ArslanDepartment of Public Policy and Administration, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, USA
Fatih DemirozDepartment of Public Administration, University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida, USA
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to analyze scholarly discussions and findings regarding collaborative emergency management (CEM). Several aspects such as leadership, decision making, intergovernmental and interorganizational relations, technology applications in CEM have been investigated.
Design/methodology/approach – Literature review was conducted using three popular search data bases, Academic Search Premier, Academic OneFile, and Info Track OneFile using the following keywords: CEM, collaborative and emergency and management, collaborative networks, emergency networks, emergency network, interorganizational networks, Interorganizational and networks, intergovernmental and networks, and National Emergency Management Network (NEMN).
Findings – The paper emphasizes that high expectations of public and stakeholders in emergency and disaster management require effective use of resources by collaborative networks.
Practical implications – Emergency and disaster managers should be able to adopt their organization culture, structure and processes to the collaborative nature of emergency management.
Originality/value – The paper focuses on a very important subject in emergency and disaster management using NEMN as example.
Keywords Decision making, Disasters, Emergency measures, Leadership
www.emeraldinsight.com/10.1108/09653561011070376
This article originally appeared in Volume 19 Number 4, 2010, pp. 452-68
Disaster Prevention and Management
Outstanding Reviewer
Professor Jieh-Jiuh WangMing Chuan University, Taiwan