Coordinating management disciplines to build operational resilience in response to a major crisis situation

Marcin Drachal

Journal of Business Continuity & Emergency Planning, 2017, vol. 11, issue 2, 174-183

Abstract: Using case studies of the Ebola outbreak in Western Africa in 2014, and the terrorist attacks in Paris and Brussels in 2015 and 2016 respectively, this paper demonstrates how various resilience-related corporate functions contributed to effective crisis response. This paper describes the logical order of actions taken in each of the cases, and how the organisation prioritised its assets and coordinated activities to ensure the response was adequate, efficient and timely. The article demonstrates how business continuity, physical security, threat management, security intelligence and incident management worked together to support the organisation’s crisis management structures in complex crisis situations.

Keywords: case study; resilience; pandemic; terrorism; crisis; coordination (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: M1 M10 M12 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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