Collaborative Research: Organizational Design Issues in Emergency Management

本项目由美国国家科学基金会SGER资助，旨在应对卡特里娜飓风，是对联邦紧急事务管理局（FEMA）和美国海岸警卫队联邦灾害活动的组织约束的学术研究。这项研究将包括收集对每个组织在卡特里娜飓风中的表现的看法的数据，分析影响每个组织产出的规则制定和预算变化，以及初步发展组织过程的动态模型。组织过程模型将侧重于机构采用新任务的动态，其中机构信息处理能力是连续的而不是并行的。项目小组将从公开的数据档案和有限的访谈中收集二手数据，以便更好地了解联邦应急管理的组织结构和职责随时间的变化。这些采访将从现任和前任国会和机构工作人员中选出十几个人，他们可以提供有关这些问题的见解。这些数据将用于开发模型，并报告组织在应急管理方面遇到的特定瓶颈。

This project, funded as a NSF SGER in response to Hurricane Katrina, is a scholarly study of organizational constraints on federal disaster activities of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and the U.S. Coast Guard. The research will consist of data collection about perceptions of each organization's performance in Hurricane Katrina, analysis of rule-making and budgetary changes in affecting each organization's outputs, and initial development of a dynamic model of organizational processes. The organizational process model will focus on the dynamics of agency adoption of new missions where agency information processing capacity is serial rather than parallel.The project team will collect secondary data from publicly available data archives and a limited number of interviews in order to better understand the changes over time in organizational structures and responsibilities for federal emergency management. These interviews are to be selected as a dozen or so individuals among current and prior congressional and agency staff who can provide insights about these issues. The data will be used to develop the model and to report on the particular organizational bottlenecks in emergency management.