Public leadership in times of crisis

Boin, A., & Hart, P. '. (2003). Public leadership in times of crisis: Mission impossible?. Public Administration Review, 63(5), 544-553.

Type

Journal article

Intellectual base

Primary research

Year

2003

Volume

63

Issue

5

Pages

544-553

ISSN

1540-6210

DOI

10.1111/1540-6210.00318

DOI registrant

Wiley

Link

https://doi.org/10.1111/1540-6210.00318

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military_strategic_studies

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Primes

• Authority Delegation Under Uncertainty
  • Organizational Crisis Management: Incident response teams given pre-authorized decision scope (spend limits, communication authority, resource commandeering) so they can act without executive approval during fast-moving crises, a structural requirement Boin and 't Hart (2003) identify as central to effective public crisis leadership.

    This sourceArgues effective crisis leadership depends on prior structural choices — pre-authorized decision scope and resource-commandeering rights — that let response teams act without executive sign-off.

    Supported in partVerified against the publisher's abstract

    Boin & 't Hart's abstract shows they treat crisis leadership as having structural 'requisites', but it never mentions pre-authorized decision scope, spend limits, resource commandeering, or acting without executive sign-off.

    “The prime reason is that the requisites of crisis leadership are at odds with the requirements of effective reform.”

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