Kim Yushim, Lee Kangbae, Oh Seong Soo, Park Heejin
School of Public Affairs, Arizona State University, Phoenix, AZ, USA.
Department of Computer Science, Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea.
Risk Anal. 2022 Jan;42(1):5-20. doi: 10.1111/risa.13751. Epub 2021 May 7.
Whether emergent groups positively or negatively influence a disaster response remains inconclusive in the literature. We analyzed the effect of an emergent group on two interorganizational networks for information communication and resource coordination during a public health emergency response. Using the 2015 Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) Coronavirus in Korea as a study case, we identified an ad hoc entity that appeared in both networks. This emergent group, which consists of government officials and public health specialists, directed and coordinated organizations at the center of the response networks. We found that the emergent group positively contributed to efficient information communication but had no effect on the resource network's efficiency. Our interpretation is that the ad hoc entity was filling relational gaps in the information network, but was redundant in the resource network.
应急群体对灾害应对产生的影响究竟是积极还是消极，在文献中尚无定论。我们分析了一个应急群体在公共卫生应急响应期间对两个用于信息沟通和资源协调的组织间网络所产生的影响。以2015年韩国中东呼吸综合征（MERS）冠状病毒疫情为例，我们确定了一个在两个网络中均出现的特别实体。这个由政府官员和公共卫生专家组成的应急群体，在响应网络的核心位置指挥和协调各组织。我们发现，该应急群体对高效信息沟通有积极贡献，但对资源网络的效率没有影响。我们的解读是，这个特别实体填补了信息网络中的关系空白，但在资源网络中是多余的。
