مدیریت بحران و سیستم های اطلاعاتی
1- Introduction
2- Reviewing the content
3- Concluding remarks
References
Introduction
Effective Disaster Management (DM) relies on a complex set of interrelated activities and these activities are often knowledge intensive, and time sensitive (Othman and Beydoun 2011). The information systems (IS) community continues to make inroads to enhance the use of technologies to support disaster management. The community continues to identify and extend the relevant theories, and to construct new paradigms that can be brought to bear on the adoption and diffusion of information systems for disaster management. An earlier special issue of the journal of Information Systems Frontiers in 2010 made significant contributions in this space, highlighting the need for extending coordination theory (Janssen et al. 2010), exposing the limits of several organizational theories (Bharosa et al. 2010) and setting the scene to extend diffusion theories for DM inter-organizational information systems (Fedorowicz and Gogan 2010). This special issue continues this discourse. Challenges in inter-organizational and cross disciplinary communication remain a motivating factor in IS research and DM. However, this special issue treats the extension of some potent theories with IS readiness assessment constructs. One focus in this special issue is how do we use such theories to provide assessment methods of DM readiness? The special issue also responds to the emerging theoretical challenges associated with integration of social media in DM information systems. Since the special issue of Information Systems Frontiers appeared in 2010, semantic technologies in the context of social media applications, have considerably progressed. This technical and practical angle on DM and IS receives much attention here.Whilst lack of data standardization and semantics continue to hinder interoperability, social media and improved analysis provide a new vantage point to address these challenges. With recent developments in semantic technologies, and further analysis of related organizational theories, interoperability and IS readiness issues in DM are tackled with new and added vigor. In this short editorial paper, we first review the content of the issue against the recent developments outlined above. We reflect on the research paradigms on the nexus of DM and IS and conclude with further remarks on what an agenda for the next wave of IS efforts in this space could include.