Designing Emergency Management

Wee-Kiat LIM is Associate Director, Centre for Management Practice at Singapore Management University. Since 2006, Wee-Kiat has been investigating how organizations make sense of, prepare for, and respond to sociotechnical disruptions. His research interests lie at the intersection of risk, disaster, and organization. Besides academic research, he has written and taught cases on organizations that are based in China, Indonesia, and Singapore, covering issues related to innovation, entrepreneurship, crisis management, and governance. Wee-Kiat holds a PhD in Sociology from University of Colorado Boulder, specializing in sociology of disaster and a Bachelor of Communication Studies (Hons.) from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

• Prologue Designing Through Distress: Creating A New Organizational Field of Emergency Management in Post-SARS China. Chapter 1 Assembling the Theoretical Toolkit: Conceptualizing the Field and Its Formation. Chapter 2 Intensive Institutionalization (2002-2007). Chapter 3 Consolidation and Stabilization (2008-2012). Chapter 4 Risk Governance as A Framework for Emergency Management. Chapter 5 Taming Rivers, Saving Sheep, And Using Science: Legitimizing Claims Using Cultural Knowledge and Party-State Ideologies. Chapter 6 Governmentalization Of Emergency Management. Chapter 7 "Field" Work: Building A New Emergency Management in China. Epilogue Going Forward. Appendix - Research Methods