Collaborative Research: Organizational Design Issues in Emergency Management

该项目是作为应对卡特里娜飓风的NSF SGER资助的，是一项关于联邦紧急事务管理局(FEMA)和美国海岸警卫队对联邦灾难活动的组织限制的学术研究。这项研究将包括收集关于每个组织在卡特里娜飓风中表现的看法的数据，分析影响每个组织产出的规则制定和预算变化，以及初步制定组织流程的动态模式。组织过程模型将侧重于机构采用新任务的动态，其中机构的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次要数据，以便更好地了解组织结构和联邦应急管理职责随时间的变化。这些采访将从现任和前任国会和机构工作人员中挑选十几个人，他们可以提供对这些问题的见解。这些数据将用于开发模型，并报告应急管理中的特殊组织瓶颈。

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.