CRISMART-forskare publicerar artikel i Risk Management

Senaste numret av tidskriftenl Risk Management innehåller en artikel av CRISMART-forskarna Edward Deverell och Eva-Karin Olsson med titeln: Organizational culture effects on strategy and adaptability in crisis management.

Abstract
This article presents a typology of temporal organizational responses to crises in public perception aimed at examining the ability of organizations to restructure in order to cope with acute crisis management challenges. The typology is based on organizations ’ capacities to launch crisis management strategies and adapt their managerial and operational levels to deal with crises. According to the typology, the Fully Adapting Organization manages to adapt both its strategy and its managerial and operational levels to deal with the crisis. The Semi-Adapting Organization changes its strategy but lacks the capacity to change managerial and operational levels according to the new strategy. The Non-Adapting Organization does not grasp the importance of strategy change in the first place. Based on three inductive case studies the study concludes that organizational culture plays an important role in this process where the Semi and the Non-Adapting organizations were dominated by strong expert cultures that proved to be less inclined to change. In contrast, the Fully Adapting Organization had deliberately fostered an organizational culture in which flexibility was a cornerstone.