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Strategies, Leadership and Complexity in Crisis and Emergency Operations

By Stig Johannessen Copyright 2018

176 Pages

by Routledge

174 Pages

by Routledge

174 Pages

by Routledge

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Description

Strategies, Leadership and Complexity in Crisis and Emergency Operations will bring together the main themes of strategy, operational leadership, organizational dynamics and complexity in the context of crisis and emergency operations; creating a book that is timely and relevant for research and leadership in emergency services, the police, military and other organizations involved in operations... Read more

Table of Contents

1. Introduction

Part One: The Police in National Emergency

2. Terror in Norway

3. Panic and Collapse of Hierarchy

4. Collapse of Leadership and Coordination

Part Two: Complexity and Practice

5. Organizational Practices and Leadership

6. Communication

7. Power, Identity, and Ethics

Part Three: The Military in International Crisis

8. From the Arctic to Libya

9. Strategy Theory

10. Network Strategies and Complexity

11. War Without strategy: Was it a Success?

Part Four: Comparisons and Conclusions

12. Police and Military Cases Compared: Organizational Practices

13. Police and Military Cases Compared: Strategy

14. Conclusions

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Biography

Stig O. Johannessen is Professor of Organization and Leadership at Nord University, Norway.

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