The Impact of Personal Factors on GIS Adoption in Crisis Management Organizations

Abstract

The ever increasing crisis across the different regions of the world over the years led to increasing human vulnerability to various risks. For this reason, research has been geared towards identifying the impact of individual factors of managing risk at the various stages of crisis management; which are important benchmarks for assisting decision makers in putting in place the most feasible choices for minimizing human risks associated with crisis situations. In this paper, Analytic Network Process (ANP) is used to prioritize the impact of individual factors on Crisis Management. The study identified Attitude, Subjective norms, and Knowledge and experience as the three individual factors that influence Crisis Management. From the result of the study, it was shown that the prioritization of these factors varies between individuals and among stages.