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  1. Crisis Decision Making: The Centralization Thesis Revisited

    This essay reconsiders the well-known thesis that, under conditions of crisis, administrative decision making becomes centralized. It discusses the theoretical and administrative underpinnings of this thesis and focuses on the role of small groups in crisis decision making, central government intervention in crisis situations, and crisis government doctrines.

  2. (PDF) Crisis Decision Making

    This essay reconsiders the well-known thesis that, under conditions of crisis, administrative decision making becomes centralized. It discusses the theoretical and administrative underpinnings of ...

  3. Crisis Decision-making

    This essay reconsiders the well-known thesis that, under conditions of crisis, administrative decision making becomes centralized. It discus ses the theoretical and administrative under-pinnings of this thesis a nd focuses on the role of small groups in crisis decision making, cent ral government intervention in crisis situations, and crisis governmen t doctrines.

  4. Crisis Management

    Crisis Decision Making: The centralization thesis revisited. Paul 't Hart, Uriel Rosenthal, and Alexander Kouzmin. Experts and Decision Makers in Crisis Situations. Uriel Rosenthal and Paul 't Hart. Designs for Crisis Decision Units. Carolyne Smart and Ilan Vertinksy. Indicators of Stress in Policymakers During Foreign Policy Crises.

  5. Crisis Decision Making

    This essay reconsiders the well-known thesis that, under conditions of crisis, administrative decision making becomes centralized. It discusses the theoretical and administrative underpinnings of this thesis and focuses on the role of small groups in crisis decision making, central government intervention in crisis situations, and crisis government doctrines. Using findings from recent ...

  6. Experts and Decision Makers in Crisis Situations

    Welch, D. (1989), Crisis decision making reconsidered. Journal of Conflict Resolution, 33, 430-445. Google Scholar. Wiegele, T.C. (1973). Decision making in an international crisis. ... Crisis Decision Making: The Centralization Thesis Revisited. Show details Hide details. Paul 't Hart and more ... Administration & Society. May 1993. Restricted ...

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  8. Crisis Decision Making: The Centralization Thesis Revisited

    This essay reconsiders the well-known thesis that, under conditions of crisis, administrative decision making becomes centralized. It discusses the theoretical and administrative underpinnings of this thesis

  9. Crisis decision making : the centralization thesis revisited

    Crisis decision making : the centralization thesis revisited. Material type: Text Publication details: [United States] : Sage Publications, 1993 Description: [34] p Subject: Reconsiders the well-known thesis that, under conditions of crisis, administrative decision making becomes centralized. Discusses the theoretical and administrative underpinnings of this thesis and focuses on the role of ...

  10. Experts and Decision Makers in Crisis Situations

    Welch, D. (1989), Crisis decision making reconsidered. Journal of Conflict Resolution, 33, 430-445. Google Scholar. ... Crisis Decision Making: The Centralization Thesis Revisited Show details . Crisis Management: An Assessment and Critique ... Crisis management revisited: A new agenda for research, training and c...

  11. Crises and Crisis Management: Toward Comprehensive Government Decision

    STEP 5: Government Authorities in Crisis Decision Making. The fifth stage involves the transition from an external observation of the necessity for government authorities to engage. in crisis decision making to the authorities' perception that they should, indeed, make critical decisions at short notice.

  12. Aligning Executive Action in Times of Adversity: The Politics of Crisis

    Abstract. We speak of a crisis when a threat is perceived against the core values or life-sustaining functions of a social system, which requires urgent remedial action under conditions of deep uncertainty (Rosenthal et al. 1989). Crises and disasters are 'inconceivable threats come true' — they tax our imagination and outstrip available ...

  13. Crisis Decision Making: The Centralization Thesis Revisited

    This essay reconsiders the well-known thesis that, under conditions of crisis, administrative decision making becomes centralized. It discusses the theoretical and administrative underpinnings of this thesis and focuses on the role of small groups in crisis decision making, central government intervention in crisis situations, and crisis ...

  14. The centralization-of-power thesis revisited

    The centralization-of-power thesis revisited : a multi-level analysis of the 2015 migrant crisis ... meaning that it is more likely that Germany's higher instances centralized the decision-making as the crisis intensified - rather than being the result of consensual decisions or pressures of all the entities constituting the lower instances ...

  15. Crisis-as-practice: Conceptualizing the role of ...

    For example, 't Hart et al. [98] show in their famous article, 'Crisis Decision Making: The Centralization Thesis Revisited', that crisis management tends to be decentralized when there is either time pressure at the operational level, or overload at the central level of government. These factors make organizations pivot towards operational ...

  16. The New World of Crises and Crisis Management: Implications for

    In recent years, we have witnessed a series of spectacular crises and disasters: 9/11, Madrid and London, the Asian tsunami, the Mumbai attacks, the implosion of the financial system—the world of crises and disasters seems to be changing.

  17. The New World of Crises and Crisis Management: Implications for

    from a single crisis center, however full of top decision makers and equipped with. ... & Kouzmin, A. (1993). Crisis decision making: The centralization thesis revisited. Administration and ...

  18. Nonprofit Service Continuity and Responses in the Pandemic: Disruptions

    Crisis Decision Making: The Centralization Thesis Revisited. Administration & Society 25 (1): 12-45. [Google Scholar] Van Dooren, Wouter , and Noordegraaf Mirko. 2020. Staging Science: Authoritativeness and Fragility of Models and Measurement in the COVID‐19 Crisis. Public Administration Review 80 (4): 610-5.

  19. Teaching crisis management before and after the pandemic: Personal

    Our initial focus in both research and teaching had been on the dynamics of crisis decision making. ... Crisis decision making: the centralization thesis revisited. Administration and Society 25(1): 12-45. Crossref. ISI. Google Scholar 't Hart P, Stern E, Sundelius B (1998) Crisis management: an agenda for research and training in Europe. ...

  20. Characteristics of Crisis and Decision Making Styles: The Mediating

    The study also found transformational leadership style mediates the relationship between characteristics of crisis and comprehensive decision making style as suggested by Tatum et al. (2003) that transformational leaders appear to prefer comprehensive decision making style and that transactional leadership leaders prefer restrictive decision ...

  21. Preventing Groupthink Revisited: Evaluating and Reforming Groups in

    Crisis decision making: The centralization thesis revisited. Administration and Society (1993) G.M. Herek et al. ... answers to this question largely depend on the underlying assumptions about the role of decision-making groups in organizations: considering conflict management and social support as the main functions of the decision-making ...

  22. Crisis Communication in Public Organisations: Dimensions of Crisis

    In order to be able to better conceptualise public organisations' crisis communication, a typology based on communication aims and orientations is introduced. According to the typology, public organisations engage in two dimensions of crisis communication: reputation-oriented vs. resilience-oriented and strategic vs. operational.

  23. Comparative Perspectives on Educational Decentralization: An Exercise

    The principal thesis of this article is that policies of decentralizing the governance of educational systems, ... Crisis Decision Making: The Centralization Thesis Revisited. Show details Hide details. Paul't Hart and more... Crisis Management. 2008. SAGE Knowledge. ... The crisis of democracy: ...