Implications For Crisis Management Research Articles

EVALUATION OF THE AUTOMOBILE CHIP CRISIS IN THE CONTEXT OF CRISIS MANAGEMENT

The automotive industry is a rapidly evolving sector that relies heavily on technological advancements. Chip technologies are essential for various automotive systems, including control mechanisms and infotainment systems. In this context, the chip crisis has exposed vulnerabilities in the supply chain and the industry's dependance on chip supplies. The primary issue of the crisis is the bottleneck facing automakers, which negatively impacts production processes and sales due to chip shortages. The purpose of this study is to analyze the chip crisis in the automotive industry and its implications for crisis management. The crisis arises from a shortage of chips in the supply chain, which has adverse effects on automakers. This research highlights the significance of this particular crisis by examining its impact on crisis management practices. It evaluates the causes, effects, and management strategies of the crisis from a crisis management perspective. The scale of this issue demonstrates that chip supply challenges affect not only the automotive industry but also other sectors. This study emphasizes the importance of supply chain and crisis management practices in the automotive industry by analyzing the causes, effects, and management strategies of the crisis. It concludes that companies, especially in the automotive sector, need to adopt more proactive approaches in response to such crises.

Government response and compliance behaviours: evidence from COVID-19 pandemic

PurposeWhile the COVID-19 pandemic wreaked havoc across the globe in 2020 and early 2021, Vietnam made some achievements in containing this virus. This study aims to focus on how government response could influence public compliance in Vietnam in 2020 (the first pandemic year).Design/methodology/approachThe authors used data gathered from individuals residing in Vietnam during the COVID-19 social distancing in April 2020. An online survey was used to collect the data. To conduct the empirical analysis, we used a structural equation model (SEM). The data were analyzed using SPSS 25 and AMOS 24.FindingsGovernment response was positively associated with public compliance through the mediating roles of trust in government and support for government.Practical implicationsThis research provides implications for crisis management in developing countries during a public health crisis, especially when or where vaccines are unavailable.Originality/valueThis research is among the first attempts that examine how government response enhances citizen compliance directly and indirectly through the mediating roles of citizen trust in government and citizen support for government.

Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on travel behavior: A case study of domestic inbound travelers in Jeju, Korea.

This study analyzes a large-scale navigation dataset that captures travel activities of domestic inbound visitors in Jeju, Korea in the first nine months of 2020. A collection of regression models are introduced to quantify the dynamic effects of local and national COVID-19 indicators on their travel behavior. Results suggest that behavior of inbound travelers was jointly affected by pandemic severity locally and remotely. The daily number of new cases in Jeju has a greater impact on reducing travel activities than the national-level daily new cases of COVID-19. The impacts of the pandemic did not diminish over time but produced heterogeneous effects on travels with different trip purposes. Our findings reveal the persistence of COVID-19's effects on travel behavior and the variability in travelers' responses across tourism activities with different levels of perceived health risks. The implications for crisis management and recovery strategies are also discussed.

NFL Player Protests, Corporate Social Responsibility, and Diversion in Sport Crisis

The 2018 Super Bowl presented an opportunity for the National Football League (NFL) to address its season-long controversy surrounding its players' demonstrations during the national anthem—yet the league did not take a specific stance, employing the communication tactic of diversion. This study seeks to understand the effects of the NFL's crisis management strategy of diversion on organizational reputation and perceptions of the need for corporate social responsibility (CSR). Fans' support for the NFL's response and CSR messaging positively impacted reputation, while fans' support for players and their cause negatively impacted reputation. Fans' current feelings about the NFL further showed frustration with past and present crises. Implications for crisis management in sport organizations and calls for inclusion in setting communication strategy are discussed.

Containing COVID-19 risk in the UAE: Mass quarantine, mental health, and implications for crisis management.

The COVID‐19 pandemic is the first global “NASECH disaster,” owing to its natural hazard (NH) origin and unprecedented subsequent repercussions for global society (S), economy (EC), and health (H). Emergency health control measures required the implementation of compulsory mass quarantine (CMQ) or so‐called periods of “lockdown.” Yet, CMQ is an instrument with iatrogenic consequences, associated with a rise in societal levels of depression, anxiety, and posttraumatic stress. With a view to informing future crisis management, the study investigated sociodemographic factors associated with mental wellbeing during the March–April 2020 lockdown in the United Arab Emirates. Respondents (n = 1585) completed self‐report measures of depression (PHQ8) and generalized anxiety (GAD7). Rates of symptomatology were notably higher than those observed in similar UAE‐based studies before the pandemic. Younger age, urban‐dwelling, female‐gender, and a history of mental health problems were significant factors linked to elevated levels of depression and anxiety. Findings emphasize (1) the crucial need for psychological intervention after disasters and (2) the importance of strengthening the nexus at the intersection of public health and disaster risk reduction (DRR). Implications are that future pandemic containment would benefit from adopting new Health–DRR paradigms and ensuring these are effectively translated into disaster policy.

Creativity as a Means to Well-Being in Times of COVID-19 Pandemic: Results of a Cross-Cultural Study.

The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has brought about unprecedented uncertainty and challenges to the worldwide economy and people’s everyday life. Anecdotal and scientific evidence has documented the existence of a positive relationship between the experience of crisis and creativity. Though this appears to be ubiquitous, the crisis-creativity-well-being relationship has not been sufficiently examined across countries and using a working adult sample. The current study drew on a sample consisting of 1,420 employees from China (n = 489, 40% females), Germany (n = 599, 47% females), and the United States (n = 332, 43% females) to examine whether creativity can function as an effective means to cope with crisis and to achieve both flourishing and social well-being. Multivariate analyses showed that perceived impact of COVID-19 was positively related to creative process engagement, which was positively related to employees’ self-reported creative growth. Creative growth was associated with a higher level of flourishing well-being. This sequential mediation model was significant across the three samples. Creativity also mediated the relationship between perceived impact of COVID-19 and social well-being (social connectedness), but this connection was only found for the Chinese sample. Further data analyses revealed that individualism moderated this serial mediation model in that the positive coping effect of creativity on both flourishing and social well-being was stronger for individuals who hold more collectivistic views. Results of the study have implications for crisis management, personal development, and positive functioning of individuals and society.

Corona Virus Pandemic Impact on the Global Growth Rates. The Grant and the Distress Nine Selected Countries as Applied Examples

The study aimed to measure the effects of the Covid-19 epidemic on global growth rates in vital sectors around the world specially – Agriculture – Construction – Manufacturing – Mining -& Transport, because it is the sectors that most to the formation of the GDP and has been directly affected by the Corona pandemic, the study proved too that the Corona virus epidemic has affected, to varying levels and degrees, the economies of the countries of the world. In most different sectors, especially developing countries, but the regional and local impact of the COVID-19 crisis was highly variable, with important economic and social dimensions in addition to the implications for crisis management and political responses to deal with it... Therefore, this paper takes an in-depth look at the impact. Linked to the COVID-19 crisis, the global growth rate at the time of lockdown, which led to the emergence of very difficult fateful challenges in many economies in the world, especially the developed ones, as well as the surprise of the emergence of emerging economies that surfaced and showed positive and significant recovery in growth rates for many of their sectors Vitality at a time in which a number of advanced economies surprised us by achieving a negative growth rate in light of their enormous economic potential, so we were interested to choose a heterogeneous package from the countries of the world (9 countries )to represent the diversity required for the different impact of the Corona virus on the different world economies and the expectations which the world economy will be appear in the global growth rates after the end of this pandemic.. So we exclusively selected 9 countries: Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Ethiopia, India, China, Germany, France, the United States of America and Australia, as examples. Stratification on this research

Retweets of officials’ alarming vs reassuring messages during the COVID-19 pandemic: Implications for crisis management

Coronavirus related discussions have spiraled at an exponential rate since its initial outbreak. By the end of May, more than 6 million people were diagnosed with this infection. Twitter witnessed an outpouring of anxious tweets through messages associated with the spread of the virus. Government and health officials replied to the troubling tweets, reassuring the public with regular alerts on the virus's progress and information to defend against the virus. We observe that social media users are worried about Covid 19-related crisis and we identify three separate conversations on virus contagion, prevention, and the economy. We analyze the tone of officials’ tweet text as alarming and reassuring and capture the response of Twitter users to official communications. Such studies can provide insights to health officials and government agencies for crisis management, specifically regarding communicating emergency information to the public via social media for establishing reassurance.

Geographies of crisis in Greece: A social well-being approach

The most prominent ‘victim’ of the global financial crisis in 2007/2008 has been Greece, which is, even now, in the middle of an economic and social storm that is threatening its economic and social cohesion and its membership of the Eurozone. Using the social well-being conceptual framework as a benchmark and exploiting the literature of composite indicators, the paper aims to assess and measure the regional impact of the crisis in a systematic and comprehensive way. Differing from most of previous studies, both at national and international levels, this study is based on the assumption that the effects of the crisis go far beyond economics and create a social crisis strongly associated with significant human and social costs that might transform Greece’s regional status and threaten its regional well-being, probably in a very unequal way. The main finding of the analysis is that although all regions were severely affected by the dynamics and intensity of the crisis, some regions were more affected than others, leading to ‘winners’ and ‘losers’. From a policy point of view, the results of this study have serious implications for crisis management, recovery policy actions and a country’s social cohesion, especially in Greece where austerity policy measures not only imposed considerable cutbacks in regional development policies but also ignored the spatial dimension of the crisis.

Crisis as seen by the individual: the Norm Deviation Approach / La crisis vista por el individuo: el Enfoque de la Desviación de la Norma

This paper presents a conceptual proposal applied to social, environmental and health crisis appraisal and coping: the Norm Deviation Approach. It is focused on the individual level and its interaction with the context within which a threat (or threats) has emerged. Thus far our understanding of the psychosocial processes that occur at the individual level during crises is a clear lacuna in the risk and crisis perception literature. As a first step for this understanding, we present a definition of crisis as perceived by the individual, based on three necessary components: (1) norm deviation; (2) appraisal; (3) coping. Despite the individual focus, the model is also cognizant of the social level, considering the system in which transactions between individuals and their social environment occur. This approach may be an initial step for developing experimental and computer modelling of societal crises, with practical implications for crisis prevention and monitoring, through social media analysis and other methods. Evidence from research focusing on specific aspects of the model and implications for crisis management and communication are also presented.

Risk cultures and dominant approaches towards disasters in seven European countries

This paper builds upon the risk culture concept started with Mary Douglas’ and Aaron Wildavsky’s seminal work on risk and culture. Based upon the empirical results of a qualitative sociological study on sociocultural factors affecting risk perception and crisis communication in seven European countries, a theoretical model, illustrating how differences in disasters framing imply diverse approaches to risk and disaster management, is suggested. According to this framework, culturally bounded assumptions and conventions strongly influence how communities make sense of risks and hazards and how these communities consider some ways of dealing with disasters more appropriate than others. The framework suggested in this article distinguishes between risk cultures of a given society, which do not necessarily respond to nation states. In order to explain differences in how cultures deal with risks and disasters, and to define the main features of our typology, three main interrelated dimensions have been selected: disaster framing, trust in authorities and blaming. By analyzing differences and similarities in how people perceive and interpret disasters, as well as to whom the responsibility for risk prevention and crisis management is attributed, in seven European countries, three specific ideal types of risk cultures emerged: state-oriented risk culture, individual-oriented risk culture and fatalistic risk culture. Implications for crisis management and communication in case of a disaster will be addressed for each of these risk cultures.

Television and terrorism: Implications for crisis management and policy‐making

Because few of us experience terrorism firsthand, the media play an important role in informing us when major incidents occur. Because of its instantaneity and its ability to reach many audiences at once, the electronic media and particularly television can have a significant impact on the various players who become involved in a particular crisis. This article examines the kinds of effects that television can have on four sets of actors most commonly involved in terrorist crises or major incidents: politicians, police, the public and the print media. While some of these effects can be negative, others can be positive. As a whole, however, television tends to diminish the quality of political discourse, with its emphasis on simplification and dramatization. In time of crisis, this can have serious consequences on decision‐makers who depend upon an informed public to understand the issues at stake and the limits on government action. The article ends by examining briefly how these effects relate to the increasing role of the private sector in public safety and security.

Clausewitz and Nuclear Crisis Stability

Loss of control is a principal theme of several recent studies of crisis management. ' These studies stress the unforeseen and possibly disastrous consequences of strategic nuclear alerts. They make a strong case for the difficulty of controlling the complex and tightly coupled alert and warning systems of the superpowers. In doing so, they offer a much needed corrective to the strategic community's fixation on guaranteed retaliation, something that over the years has made the command and control problem more acute. At the same time, concern for command and control should not blind us to other causes and manifestations of loss of control that could prove just as destabilizing in crisis. This article will explore three of these: civilian-military conflict, emotions, and political sabotage. It will analyze their mediating conditions, their implications for crisis management, and what if anything could be done to minimize their disruptive effects.

A Balkan Nuclear Weapon-Free Zone: Viability of the Regime and Implications for Crisis Management

terms of its utility as a bargaining chip or as a by-product of build-down formulae. When used as a bargaining chip, non-deployment is rarely the intended outcome; in a builddown context, any advantage resulting from even the dismantling of weapons is often outweighed by the disadvantage of technical upgrading, or by the deployment of other categories of weapons. There is, however, another approach to non-deployment which receives little attention in the United States; namely, the nuclear weapon-free zone (NWFZ). Nuclear weapon-free zones serve several purposes of arms control which are often overlooked: in addition to reducing the actual numbers of weapons deployed, nuclear weapon-free zones can contribute to effective crisis prevention and crisis management, and they can make it possible to limit destruction in the event of actual hostilities. If a conflict which threatened to draw in both the United States and the Soviet Union

Preventing Systemic War

In this article, an equilibrium theory of conflict behavior is developed in which there exists a balance or equilibrium in the number of disputes begun and ended in a given time period. Significant interdependence as the result of diffusion, reinforcement, or a common source of conflict behavior leads to departures from the equilibrium model that, in turn, are associated with the onset of systemic, or global, war. Using a set of serious international disputes occurring in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the nineteenth century is found to fit the equilibrium model, but the period approaching World War I does not, when all disputes involving both major and minor powers are considered. Disputes involving only major powers constitute a stable system in both the nineteenth century and pre-World War I period. Implications for crisis management and conflict resolution are developed through the use of disjoint sets that effectively separate the different kinds of disputes, which together could lead to global war.