Managing through COVID-19: Reflections from city managers and lessons learned

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Bishu, Sebawit G.; Camarena, Leonor; Feeney, Mary K.
• 署名单位: University of Washington; University of Washington Seattle; Indiana University System; Indiana University Bloomington; Arizona State University; Arizona State University-Downtown Phoenix
• 刊物名称: PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION REVIEW
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0033-3352
• DOI: 10.1111/puar.13707
• 发表日期: 2023
• 页码: 1367-1386
• 关键词: collaborative emergency management; COMMUNICATION; leadership; disasters; networks; security; BOUNDARY; capacity; CRISIS; roles

摘要

Our research centers on the role of city managers in responding to the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States. We begin by asking: What was the experience of city managers during the COVID-19 pandemic? Drawing on interview data from 87 US city managers we identify four emergent themes: crisis management, organizational and leadership contexts, unintended outcomes, and administrative impacts. We then apply Comfort's (2007) four Cs-cognition, communication, coordination, and control-to the interview data. We find that cognition, communication, and coordination are critical to city managers experiences in crisis management and response. Control is largely related to organizational and leadership contexts and a key aspect in determining their reported success. We also find that city managers view unintended and administrative outcomes as a result of their crisis management process that reinforce their strategies. From our inductive analysis, we propose a Complex Disaster Response Framework of City Managers.