Social media adoption and use for improved emergency services operations: the case of the NSW SES

Despite the exponential growth of social media in emergency services design and delivery, academic research and managerial practice have paid little attention to how to adopt and use it to transform operations and enhance organizational performance. This paper aims to provide some insights of a long...

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Published in:Annals of operations research 2019-12, Vol.283 (1-2), p.225-245
Main Authors: Fosso Wamba, Samuel, Edwards, Andrew, Akter, Shahriar
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Applications of OR in Disaster Relief Operations
Assistance in emergencies
Business and Management
Case studies
Combinatorics
Digital media
Emergency management
Emergency procedures
Emergency services
Leadership
Online social networks
Operations research
Operations Research/Decision Theory
Social aspects
Social networks
Strategic management
Theory of Computation
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Summary:Despite the exponential growth of social media in emergency services design and delivery, academic research and managerial practice have paid little attention to how to adopt and use it to transform operations and enhance organizational performance. This paper aims to provide some insights of a longitudinal case study of the adoption and use of social media technologies by the New South Wales (NSW) state emergency service (SES) in Australia. The study identifies a set of internal and external factors explaining the adoption and use of social media by the NSW SES including: the social media bandwagon effect, the effectiveness of social media use during the January 2011 Queensland floods, the NSW state strategic planning on emergency services, the opportunity offered by the upgrade of the NSW SES web site, and a strong internal management leadership toward the use of social media to support emergency operations. Finally, implications for research and practice are discussed.
ISSN:0254-5330
1572-9338
DOI:10.1007/s10479-017-2545-9