Information sharing during multi-agency major incidents

Proceedings of the ASIST Annual Meeting

Volumn 48, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Mishra, Jyoti Laxmi ^a   Allen, David K ^a   Pearman, Alan D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Activity Theory; Emergency management; Information practices; Information sharing; Multi agency; Trust

Indexed keywords

EID: 84861451393     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15508390     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/meet.2011.14504801039     Document Type: Conference Paper

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