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Recovery Policy in Crisis Areas: The Risk Management Concept Versus Normative and Administrative Approaches to Rehabilitation of the Radioactively Contaminated Areas in the Former Soviet Union
Author(s) -
Porfiriev Boris
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
journal of contingencies and crisis management
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.007
H-Index - 51
eISSN - 1468-5973
pISSN - 0966-0879
DOI - 10.1111/1468-5973.00101
Subject(s) - normative , flexibility (engineering) , adaptation (eye) , rigidity (electromagnetism) , soviet union , political science , normative model of decision making , business , public administration , process management , risk analysis (engineering) , engineering , economics , management , law , psychology , politics , structural engineering , neuroscience
The ‘rigidity’ versus ‘adaptation’ (‘flexibility’) approaches in organizational response to decline are challenged in this paper. Re‐analysis of studies reporting on participative decision making (PDM) responses suggests that organizations respond not with flexibility, as could be expected, but with a mixture of both flexible and rigid elements. A ‘mixture model’ is advanced, postulating three critical organizational concepts that need to be considered: pre‐decline institutionalized PDM, PDM information, and PDM internal inconsistencies.