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Dynamics of Change in the Aftermath of the 2001 UK Foot and Mouth Crisis: Were Lessons Learned?
Author(s) -
Connolly John
Publication year - 2014
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 - 10.1111/1468-5973.12055
Subject(s) - crisis management , documentation , government (linguistics) , political science , order (exchange) , foot (prosody) , public relations , dynamics (music) , scale (ratio) , foot and mouth disease , public administration , political economy , economy , outbreak , business , sociology , medicine , economics , geography , law , linguistics , philosophy , cartography , finance , virology , computer science , programming language , pedagogy
This article investigates the UK animal health sector in the aftermath of the 2001 foot and mouth crisis. The article draws together perspectives from crisis management, policy and institutional change literatures in order to assess the extent of reforms since the epidemic. Interviews with government officials and parliamentarians and the analyses of official documentation indicate that lessons have been learned and there are successes in many areas; yet, there remains key aspects of crisis management that have yet to change, which leave the government vulnerable in the event of more wide‐scale foot and mouth outbreaks. The results of the study serve to suggest that post‐crisis change research should consider making more explicit links with the institutional literature on change dynamics.