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Task characteristics, knowledge sharing and integration, and emergency management performance: Research agenda and challenges
Irma Becerra-Fernandez
Weidong Xia
Arvind Gudi
Jose Rocha
F. Fiedrich, B.V. de W.
Emergency management tasks are inherently complex and dynamic, requiring quick knowledge sharing and decision coordination among multiple organizations across different levels and locations. However, there is a general lack of understanding about how to describe and assess the complex and dynamic nature of emergency management tasks and how knowledge integration help managers improve emergency management task performance. This paper describes a research project that aims at (1) developing the concepts of task complexity and uncertainty of emergency management tasks and (2) testing the mediating role of knowledge sharing and knowledge integration between emergency management task characteristics and performance. The overall research agenda, approaches, challenges and the advantages of utilizing a virtual Emergency Operations Center (vEOC) for this line of research are discussed.
urn:ISBN:9780615206974
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url:http://idl.iscram.org/show.php?record=297
citekey:IrmaBecerra-Fernandez_etal2008
citation:Irma Becerra-Fernandez, Weidong Xia, Arvind Gudi, & Jose Rocha. (2008). Task characteristics, knowledge sharing and integration, and emergency management performance: Research agenda and challenges. In B. V. de W. F. Fiedrich (Ed.), Proceedings of ISCRAM 2008 – 5th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management (pp. 88-92). Washington, DC: Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management, ISCRAM.
2008
ConferencePaper
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Coordination reactions
Disasters
Information systems
Knowledge management
Risk management
Emergency management
Emergency operations centers
Knowledge integration
Knowledge-sharing
Mediating roles
Multiple organizations
Task characteristics
Task complexity
Civil defense
file:http://idl.iscram.org/files/becerra-fernandez/2008/297_Becerra-Fernandez_etal2008.pdf
Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management, ISCRAM
English
2411-3387
Proceedings of ISCRAM 2008 – 5th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management
2008
88
92
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