TY - GEN
T1 - Task characteristics, knowledge sharing and integration, and emergency management performance
T2 - 5th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management, ISCRAM 2008
AU - Becerra-Fernandez, Irma
AU - Xia, Weidong
AU - Gudi, Arvind
AU - Rocha, Jose
PY - 2008
Y1 - 2008
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - Emergency management task characteristics
KW - Emergency management task performance
KW - Knowledge integration
KW - Knowledge sharing
KW - Virtual emergency operations center
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/76649136375
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/76649136375#tab=citedBy
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:76649136375
SN - 9780615206974
T3 - Proceedings of ISCRAM 2008 - 5th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management
SP - 88
EP - 92
BT - Proceedings of ISCRAM 2008 - 5th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management
PB - Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management, ISCRAM
Y2 - 4 May 2008 through 7 May 2008
ER -