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Concluding management issues, associated learnings and social resilience

Husted, Kenneth; Sinkovics, Rudolf R.

Authors

Kenneth Husted



Contributors

Kenneth Husted
Editor

Rudolf R. Sinkovics
Editor

Abstract

The Covid-19 pandemic has been seen as a wicked problem, which creates unique pol-icy and governance challenges (Sahin et al., 2020). Besides being associated with uncertainty and a wide range of consequences for an extensive range of stakeholders, a defining charac-teristic of a wicked problem is the difficulty in framing and formulating the essence of the very problem at hand. Therefore, wicked problems are considered ill-structured (Simon, 1973; Baskerville, 2008). For the purpose of this book, we framed the Covid-19 pandemic problem by introducing three distinctive sets of dichotomies. The first is around proximity and dis-tance, a key feature of the NZ geographical and economic position in its regional and global networks. The second dichotomy relates to centralisation and decentralisation in decision making. The third dichotomy is associated with collective versus individual learning. To look back at the chapters that comprise the present book, we now reflect on them in a structured way by drawing on the meta-capability policy framework developed by Menzies and Raskovic (2020). We depict this framework in Figure 1 and then connect the chapters and their stories to basic resilience dimensions.

Citation

Husted, K., & Sinkovics, R. R. (2021). Concluding management issues, associated learnings and social resilience. In K. Husted, & R. R. Sinkovics (Eds.), Management Perspectives on the Covid-19 Crisis (189-199). Edward Elgar Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781800882096.00025

Publication Date Aug 6, 2021
Deposit Date Sep 10, 2024
Publisher Edward Elgar Publishing
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Pages 189-199
Book Title Management Perspectives on the Covid-19 Crisis
Chapter Number 15
ISBN 9781800882089
DOI https://doi.org/10.4337/9781800882096.00025
Public URL https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/2773254
Publisher URL https://doi.org/10.4337/9781800882096.00025


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