Disaster coordination preparedness of soft-target organisations
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5031941 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Shahadat Uddin (0000-0003-0091-6919, The University of Sydney), Liaquat Hossain (The University of Sydney) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 35 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 623-638 |
| Publication date | 2011-07-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Disasters (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0361-3666 • E-ISSN: 1467-7717 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1467-7717.2011.01229.x |
| PMID | 21272059 |
| OpenAlex | W1973145774 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 13 |
This paper introduces a network-enabled model to examine the disaster coordination preparedness of soft-target organisations (STOs). Little attention is devoted to this matter in recent research. This study places emphasis on such organisations and the proposed model tests hypotheses related to network relation and coordination preparedness. It analyses the data set entitled 'Preparedness of large retail malls to prevent and respond to terrorist attack, 2004′, which contains 120 completed surveys of security directors of retail malls in the United States.1 The following questions form the basis of this study: 'What do STOs need to be better prepared to respond to a disaster?'; 'How does network relationship between STOs and emergency agencies affect the coordination preparedness of STOs for disaster recovery?'; and 'Which centrality measure needs to be followed to measure network variables in order to analyse coordination preparedness?' The results show that STOs with a high level of connectedness and strong ties to other emergency agencies are better prepared for disaster response
Business · Centrality · Computer security · Emergency management · Medical emergency · Poison control · Political science · Preparedness · Public relations · Social connectedness · Terrorism · Complex Network Analysis Techniques · Computer Science · Disaster Management and Resilience · Engineering · Infrastructure Resilience and Vulnerability Analysis · Medicine · Psychology · Social Psychology
Social Network Analysis
Inter-organizational coordination in extreme events
The interdisciplinary study of coordination
Centrality in social networks conceptual clarification
Information flow through strong and weak ties in intraorganizational social networks
Effects of communication network structure
The Strength of Weak Ties
| Citations per year | 0.25 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2018 - 2022 (5) |
| Highly cited | No |