Interagency Coordination: A Case Study of the 2005 London Train Bombings

Strom, Kevin J.; Eyerman, Joseph

doi:10.1037/e481392008-002

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“…If they assume their role and perform it successfully, they will limit the necessity of emergent organizations. The response to the London bombings (2005) is often identified as an example of effective coordination (Strom and Eyerman ). Local response organizations could rely on joint planning, a clear structure and much practice when the bombs created chaos in the underground and on the streets of London.…”

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Explaining success and failure in crisis coordination

Boin

Bynander

2015

Geografiska Annaler: Series A, Physical Geography

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In virtually every assessment of responses to large-scale crises and disasters, coordination is identified as a critical failure factor. After the crisis, official committees and political opponents often characterize the early phases of the response as a 'failure to coordinate.' Not surprisingly, improved coordination quickly emerges as the prescribed solution. Coordination, then, is apparently both the problem and the solution. But the proposed solutions rarely solve the problem: coordination continues to mar most crises and disasters. In the absence of a shared body of knowledge on coordination, it is hard to formulate a normative framework that allows for systematic assessment of coordination in times of crisis. As coordination is widely perceived as an important function of crisis and disaster management, this absence undermines a fair and balanced assessment of crisis management performance. This paper seeks to address that void. We aim to develop a framework that explains both the failure and success of crisis coordination. We do this by exploring the relevant literature, reformulating what coordination is and distilling from research the factors that cause failure and success.

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“…In some crises, coordination is reported to have worked well. One example is the response to the London bombings in the summer of 2005 (Strom and Eyerman ). Another example is the response to Hurricane Gustav (2008), the first major hurricane to target Louisiana after the Katrina debacle (Boin and Egan ).…”

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Explaining success and failure in crisis coordination

Boin

Bynander

2015

Geografiska Annaler: Series A, Physical Geography

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“…The London Bombings (2005) as a case study have been used by many researchers (Strom and Eyerman, 2008;Cocking, 2013;Strandh, 2015;Glasgow et al, 2018); however, the degree to which it is representative within the domain remains an assumption with the potential to affect external validity. The case study method employed to investigate design and method integration differs significantly from the application of the proposed multistage method.…”

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The SERIES model: development of a practitioner focused emergency response evaluation system

Holdsworth

Zagorecki

2020

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PurposeEffective Emergency Response Management (ERM) system evaluation is vital to the process of continual improvement within emergency response organizations. The purpose of this paper is to investigate if an entire ERM system can be captured and encoded within a standardized framework.Design/methodology/approachEmploying an exploratory approach the authors apply a mixed methods case study design and inductive reasoning to analyse documentary evidence provided during the inquest into the London Bombings 2005. The authors use content analysis to investigate the nature of ERM system data availability and apply principals of Network Theory to iteratively develop a framework within which data can be encoded.FindingsThe authors find that complex ERM system data can be captured and stored within a standardized framework. The authors present a conceptual framework and multi-stage mixed methods process, the Standardized Emergency Response Incident Evaluation System (SERIES) model, to support data collection, storage and interpretation. The findings demonstrate that ERM system evaluation can benefit from the adoption of a standardized mixed-methods approach employing data transformation and triangulation. The authors also demonstrate the potential of the proposed standardized model, by integrating qualitative and quantitative data, to support interpretation and reporting through the use of appropriate data visualization.Originality/valueThe SERIES model provides a practical tool and procedural guidelines to capture and share vital ERM system data and information across all emergency services. It also presents an opportunity to develop a large comprehensive multi-incident dataset to support academic inquiry and partnership between academics and practitioners.

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