Emerging coordination and knowledge transfer process during disease outbreak

Bdeir, Fadl; Hossain, Liaquat; Crawford, John W.

doi:10.1057/kmrp.2012.1

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“…Pandemic is a typology of natural disaster different from the others (Bdeir et al, 2013), and this is reflected in the management models and approaches, including knowledge management. Disease outbreak is a particular case of a disaster where the dynamics of the situation are particularly important.…”

Section: Knowledge Management In Natural Disastersmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…It is distinct from earthquakes, bushfire, or floods, due to some key characteristics: has a wave pattern behaviour and might re-infect the same-affected area/population; disease outbreak can cross geographic boundaries to be a global phenomenon, is population discriminative (there are vulnerable classes of people) and has mutative and adaptive behaviours. The spread patterns are influenced by different factors including pathogen contagion, demography, and behaviour, has a deterministic and higher effect on Health workforce itself (thus reducing the capacity to react by the health systems), creates hotspots that "move" uncontrolled to other locations depending on population movements (Bdeir et al, 2013).…”

Section: Knowledge Management In Natural Disastersmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Araz et al (2010) with this regard stress the importance of state-of-the-art technologies to have system visualisation and group decision-making with a supporting simulation model. Bdeir et al (2013) modelled as a multi-agency coordination emerging process for supporting the complex knowledge transfer process during different phases of disease outbreak. They argue that understanding of social network behaviour and emerging coordination are pivotal to the optimisation of knowledge transfer process, which is a prerequisite for successful outbreak intervention.…”

Section: Theme 1 -Modelling and Simulationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Coordination is a first key topic to emerge. Successful coordination is based on a common and shared understanding of the problem by all the inter-organised bodies during the outbreak (Bdeir et al, 2013).…”

Section: Theme 1 -Modelling and Simulationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…However, unlike other natural disasters, pandemics' devastating effects can be actively shaped and mitigated by managers, through right and timely decisions. Decisions are critical to manage the spread of the pandemic, and the effectiveness of these decisions depends upon the capacity to create, share, collect, transfer, and elaborate knowledge, that is by an effective and efficient process of knowledge management in pandemics (Bdeir et al, 2013;Viner et al, 2020).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Knowledge management in pandemics. A critical literature review

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The ongoing pandemic COVID-19 is soliciting the question: what do we know about the knowledge management in a pandemic? Knowledge is a strategic resource to drive decisionmakers in the management of a pandemic, to mitigate health and socioeconomic effects. Unlike other natural disasters, pandemics have a long lead time, and during this time can be actively managed. Decisions taken in such a complex process can change the course and the effects of a pandemic. Despite the critical role of knowledge management in pandemics, that inform and enable decision-makers, the literature on this specific issue is poor, fragmented, mainly addressed by "health" journals and marginally addressed by the "knowledge management" scholars. This paper aims to provide the ground for filling this gap, by detecting the state-of-art, that is the topics and the past studies, about Knowledge Management in pandemics.

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Section: Knowledge Management In Natural Disastersmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Knowledge Management In Natural Disastersmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Theme 1 -Modelling and Simulationmentioning

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confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Ex Ante Knowledge for Infectious Disease Outbreaks: Introducing the Organizational Network Governance Approach

Raab

Kenis

Dirkzwager

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Knowledge for Governance

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In our paper we investigate to what extent ex ante knowledge about a response network can be made available in order to deal with a crisis such as an infectious disease outbreak. Outbreaks are almost by definition characterized by a lack of information and knowledge. We introduce the organizational network governance approach for producing information prior to an actual outbreak, which is useful in limiting a virus’s transmission and impact. By introducing two fictitious but realistic outbreak scenarios—the outbreak of the West Nile Virus (WNV) and the outbreak of a New Asian Coronavirus (NAC) in the Netherlands—we demonstrate the effectiveness of this approach. We formulate recommendations how to use the generated information to strengthen the organizational context in order to limit a virus’s transmission and impact and how to further develop the organizational network governance approach. We also formulate recommendations for how to further develop the organizational network governance approach.

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