Organisational learning and self-adaptation in dynamic disaster environments

Economic Outlook

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 212-233

  Corbacioglu, Sitki ^a   Kapucu, Naim ^b  

^a ESKISEHIR OSMANGAZI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Complex adaptive systems; Disasters; Emergency management; Organisational change; Organisational learning

Indexed keywords

DISASTER MANAGEMENT; EARTHQUAKE EVENT; ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE; LEARNING;

EURASIA; TURKEY; ADANA [TURKEY]; AFYON; CEYHAN; DINAR; DUZCE; ERZINCAN [TURKEY];

ACCLIMATIZATION; ARTICLE; DISASTER; DISASTER PLANNING; HUMAN; LEARNING; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; TURKEY (REPUBLIC);

ACCLIMATIZATION; DISASTER PLANNING; DISASTERS; HUMANS; LEARNING; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; RELIEF WORK; TURKEY;

EID: 33646492150     PISSN: 0140489X     EISSN: 14680319     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0361-3666.2006.00316.x     Document Type: Article

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