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Author: | Sheaffer, Z. Mano-Negrin, R. |
Title: | Executives' orientations as indicators of crisis management policies and practices |
Journal: | Journal of Management Studies
2003 : MAR, VOL. 40:2, p. 573-606 |
Index terms: | Crisis management Human resource management Organizations Policy Strategy Models |
Language: | eng |
Abstract: | The paper examines effects of executives' orientations on crisis management awareness and practices, drawing on the simplicity and paradox management theories. It is suggested that a focus on single-sided management constitutes an antecedent of crisis proneness. The study aims at assessing the extent to which companies are crisis prone or prepared. In a sample of 82 Israeli business and not-for-profit organizations it was found that human resource management, strategy, structure, and unlearning factors significantly predicted crisis preparedness. These results suggest that unlearning, despite a mere allusion to this correlate in the simplicity and paradox management theories, correlates better with crisis preparedness. By contrast, traditional strategy-related and structural effects were marginally related to crisis management policies. |
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