Sub-theme 27: Risk, Crisis and Emergency Management

Convenors:
Robert P. Gephart Jr., University of Alberta, Canada
Kees Boersma, VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Sytze F. Kingma, VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Session I: Thursday, July 04, 09:00 to 10:30, Decelles, 3rd floor, Section Sud, Rimouski
Conceptualizing Transboundary Risk
Chair: Sytze F. Kingma
Kathleen Locklear
Bridging as metaphor: A systems approach for exploring transboundary risk
Emanuel R. Kastl
A novel conceptualization of 'boundary' – The firm boundary as membrane
S. Amy Sommer, Travis M. Maynard and Deanna Kennedy
Leadership in trans-boundary crisis: Team adaptation across boundaries
Session II: Thursday, July 04, 11:00 to 12:30, Decelles, 3rd floor, Section Sud, Rimouski
Interorganizational Boundaries
Chair: Scott Poole
Bruno Verweijen and Kristina Lauche
Beyond the boundaries of the organization: The conceptualization of risk in the oil & gas industry as an organizational field
Gareth Owen
Bankers, bonuses and bailouts: Rhetoric, reality and the financial crisis
François de Corbière, François Deltour, Bénédicte Geffroy, Gwenaëlle Lairet and Sophie Bretesché
Managing risks across organizational actors boundaries: The case of the medical nuclear supply chain
Session III: Thursday, July 04, 16:00 to 17:30, Decelles, 3rd floor, Section Sud, Rimouski
Crisis Handling
Chair: Kees Boersma
Carole Lalonde
Connecting guiding principles and organization development interventions in crisis management
Jenni Hyvärinen
Developing a conceptual framework for investigating communication supporting a community approach to crisis management: Including publics in the work of response networks
Anouck Adrot and Christophe Roux-Dufort
In the middle of fervency and dispassion: A grounded analysis of interorganizational coordination during the 2003 French heat wave crisis response
Session IV: Friday, July 05, 09:00 to 10:30, Decelles, 3rd floor, Section Sud, Rimouski
Risk Taking and Blaming
Chair: Robert P. Gephart Jr.
Cagri Topal and Robert P. Gephart Jr.
The communicative basis of risk management
Thomas Roulet and Eric Abrahamson
Scapegoats, sacrificial lambs, turncoats, and whistleblowers: Simulating and theorizing blame games
Mário Aquino Alves, Paulo Guimaraes and Maria Paola Ometto
Litigation as corporate strategy towards environmental disaster: Unveiling senses through antenarratives
Session V: Friday, July 05, 14:00 to 15:30, Decelles, 3rd floor, Section Sud, Rimouski
Emergency Preparations and Networks
Chair: Peter Groenewegen
Epaminondas Koronis and Stavros Ponis
Inter-organizational networks and knowledge transfer for supply chains in crisis
Amandine Berger and Benoît Journé
The political dynamics of reliability and crisis management in organizational networks: The case of a French network of municipalities
Chiara Bassetti, Emanuele Bottazzi and Roberta Ferrario
Fatal attraction. Interaction and crisis management in socio-technical systems
Session VI: Saturday, July 06, 09:00 to 10:30, Decelles, 3rd floor, Section Sud, Rimouski
Managing Risk at Supra-organizational Levels
Chair: Robert P. Gephart Jr.
Christopher Eaton and Laurie Milton
A tale of two transboundary crises: Building theory from systemic risk in energy and financial sectors
Session VII: Saturday, July 06, 11:00 to 12:30, Decelles, 3rd floor, Section Sud, Rimouski
Emergency Operations
Chair: Sytze F. Kingma
Jeroen J. Wolbers, Kees Boersma, Peter Groenewegen and Marshall Scott Poole
The role of temporality in the construction of boundary objects during emergency management
Georg Schreyögg and Simone Ostermann
Coping with uncertainty through organizational networks – Evidence from an Intensive Care Unit ward
Rodrigo Antônio Silveira dos Santos and Cristiano José Castro de Almeida Cunha
Cognitive approach to crisis leadership: A bridging edge to manage transboundary crises