Jori P Kalkman

Frontline Crisis Response

Operational Dilemmas in Emergency Services, Armed Forces, and Humanitarian Organizations

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"Jori Pascal Kalkman discusses the complex dilemmas that emergency responders, soldiers, and humanitarians face during crisis response operations. Based on the latest research, this book offers readers a comprehensive overview of how crisis professionals organize and implement their operational activities amidst the chaos of crisis situations"--

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 250
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Oktober 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 540g
• ISBN-13: 9781009262194
• ISBN-10: 100926219X
• Artikelnr.: 68212045

Autorenporträt

Jori P. Kalkman is Associate Professor in the Faculty of Military Sciences at the Netherlands Defence Academy and was a visiting researcher at the Swedish Defence University. His work focuses on frontline crisis operations and has been published in various management journals as well as in specialized emergency response, military, and humanitarian outlets.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Dilemmas in frontline crisis response
2. Leadership: command and control versus decentralization
3. Sensemaking: creating clarity versus embracing uncertainty
4. Acting: planned routines versus spontaneous improvisation
5. Ethics: organizational norms versus individual convictions
6. Emotions: involvement versus detachment
7. Ties: cohesion versus contestation
8. Structures: organizing versus disorganizing
9. Coordination: integration versus fragmentation
10. Civilians: inclusion versus exclusion
11. Technology: early adoption versus skepticism
12. Goals: restoring order versus social transformation
13. Advancing research on frontline crisis response.