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Risk Analysis and the Security Survey

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Effects of crisis orientation on managers' approach to controversy in decision making

Abstract: In this study managers' views of the situation as a crisis, challenging problem, or minor issue affected the extent to which they discussed opposing opinions with a subordinate constructively. Mana...

Crisis management: The interaction of political and military considerations

Abstract: (1984). Crisis management: The interaction of political and military considerations. Survival: Vol. 26, No. 5, pp. 223-234.

Crisis Response Planning Toward a Contingent Analysis

Abstract: Social scientists studying responses to disasters have suggested ways to overcome recurrent operational and behavioral problems during implementation. An analysis of the response of a number of jurisdictions to the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens shows the techniques are useful to local government. Officials only adopted those techniques, however, after some ad hoc learning in the heat of emergency. The question of how to foster the development of adaptive strategies before a crisis strikes has received less attention, and it is often dismissed as a problem of political apathy. Beyond apathy alone, evidence presented here is used to argue that we ought to attempt to identify organizational arrangements or contingencies that act as incentives for, or barriers to, more effective public-sector crisis management strategies.

South Korea in 1983: Crisis Management and Political Legitimacy

Abstract: The Republic of Korea (South Korea) encountered a series of critical domestic and foreign problems during 1983; they ranged from the Korean Air Lines tragedy and the bomb explosion at Rangoon to large-scale financial scandals and tenacious student demonstrations. The management of these events was often painful and complicated, and its outcome directly or indirectly affected President Chun Doo Hwan's attempts to enhance his political legitimacy and to improve South Korea's relations with Japan, China, the Soviet Union, and the United States. The delicate interdependence of South Korea's internal and external affairs was amply demonstrated throughout the year.

Coping with Complexity in Food Crisis Management

Abstract: The causes, consequences, and management of food crises are complex. Geographers with their inherent understanding of complexity can play an important part in meshing relief measures with the long-term development of famine prone areas in developing nations. For this role, they must extend their traditional understanding of concatenation processes, phenology, semiotics, contingency approaches to warning systems, and the concept of comparative evaluation. These geographical ideas are essential elements in the training of key food crisis managers.

Agreement and disagreement on an international satellite monitoring agency

Abstract: The proposals submitted to the United Nations General Assembly for the establishment of an international satellite monitoring agency are briefly discussed in the light of suggestions to combine surveillance tasks with socioeconomic (resources management) tasks. It is concluded that confidence building, both with regard to peacekeeping and crisis management on one side, and international co-operation for socioeconomic development on the other side, as well as systems characteristics for the various objectives, call for keeping these tasks completely separated.

Analysis of the Readiness of Local Communities for Integrated Emergency Management Planning.

Abstract: : The emergency management networks of fifteen communities throughout the U.S. were examined with particular attention to their effectiveness. Most of the networks sampled are effective; those that are ineffective are difficult to repair under present conditions. All networks underutilize available local resources in the voluntary and commercial/industrial sectors of their communities, and limit communication with the general public. The concept of integrated emergency management systems has so far been well-received on the local level, partly because it conforms to pre-existing practice, and partly because it deflects attention from possibly controversial civil defense measures to types of emergency management that enjoy unequivocal public support. Few distinctive civil defense activities are currently ongoing in the sampled communities and there is considerable confusion about how the public would be warned and instructed in case of a nuclear alert. Aside from these considerations, most of the networks studied should be able handle any emergency that bears a reasonable relationship to their available resources.

Nuclear crisis management

Abstract: The theory and practice of “crisis management” are increasingly attracting the attention of officials and policy analysts. One basic cause of this renewed interest is the growing recognition that a failure of communication between the superpowers in the face of a crisis provoked by some third party—particularly a terrorist group or rogue national leader—could issue in a nuclear war. Another is the fear of miscalculation and runaway escalation, if the United States and the Soviet Union were drawn into a regional war in which each had vital interests. A third general cause is the heightened apprehension that a missile might be fired on either side by accident or without proper authorization, all precautions notwithstanding.“Perhaps most dangerous of all is the scenario that no one foresees,” in the words of William Langer Ury and Richard Smoke. Their Beyond the Hotline: Controlling a Nuclear Crisis, a report to the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, was recently released by the Nuclear Negotiation Pr...

National emergency telecommunications policy : who's in charge?

Abstract: : This study began as an attempt to define the role of and suggest improvements for the management of the national Communications System, an Organization President Kennedy formed in 1963 to develop a unified and interoperable Government telecommunications system capable of providing necessary communications to the Federal Government under all possible circumstances, including nuclear war The results were to be implementable by the manager of the National Communications System This research was redirected to also conceive an organization capable of implementing reforms

The politics of corporate crises in West Germany

Abstract: This article examines the experience of corporate crisis in the major industrial economy of Western Europe. West Germany's experience of corporate crisis is analysed by reference to its legal framework, political context and economic history. Particular attention is given to two modes of crisis management: ‘bank‐led’ rescue and ‘the crisis cartel’. Case studies include AEG, Grundig, the steel corporations of the Ruhr and the Saar, shipbuilding corporations and Krupp. The argument draws on the evidence of mounting problems of corporate crisis management to assess the prospects for the theory and practice of the social market economy in West Germany.

External borrowing, capital formation and growth in developing countries

Abstract: Since the summer of 1982 the banking community has been faced with an international debt crisis of unprecedented dimensions. The debt rescheduling agreements that have been negotiated since then involve sums totalling no less than $ 100 billion. However, they give the international financial system no more than a breathing-space. The following two articles deal with different aspects of this crisis. Rainer Erbe examines the question as to what growth effects were associated with external borrowing. Can a lack of growth effects be made responsible for the crisis or were other factors more important? This is followed by an article by Anton Konrad who discusses the proposals which have been made for long-term crisis management. What are their chances of success?

Crisis modeling of the criminal justice system

Abstract: A crisis triggered procedure is applied to analysis of the criminal justice system of the United States; in particular, the develop ment of a "crisis triggered" computer simulation model of the criminal justice system is reported. The model is then used to identify potential major crises that have occurred or are ex pected to occur in the criminal justice system, to simulate them, and to study alternative regimes or patterns of recovery that the system may undergo.

Informational Needs of Organizations Under Crisis

Abstract: The value of data base and management information systems (DBS and MIS) has been dramatically shown in the last few decades. It has been implied in a previous study(10) that these systems provide trivial aid to the managers of organizations undergoing severe crisis. Simply put, it is argued that the current models, techniques, and principles of management are best suited for dealing with the “normal” problems of an organization, that is, with problems typically experienced during periods of organizational stability. During these periods the historical data and the information derived from them become the bases for formulating decisions, strategies, and even policies. Goals and objectives are well defined and broadly accepted. They become convenient points of reference for the organizational system in determining its need for corrective action. The DBS and MIS systems have served well in satisfying the informational needs of the stable organization.