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The Oxford Handbook of Organizational Decision Making Hodgkinson, Gerard P. Professor of Organizational Behaviour and Strategic Management and Director of the Centre for Organizational Strategy, Learning and Change, University of Leeds Starbuck, William H. Professor in Residence at the Lundquist College of Business, University of Oregon, and Professor Emeritus, New York University Print publication date: 2008 (this edition) Print ISBN-13: 978-0-19-929046-8 Published to Oxford Handbooks Online: September 2009
9 The Fit Between Crisis Types and Management Attributes as a Determinant of Crisis Consequences doi:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199290468.003.0009 Teri Jane Ursacki-Bryant Carolyne Smart Ilan Vertinsky Abstract: Introduction – Organizational and Environmental Attributes: Antecedents of Crisis Management – Types of Crises – The “Fit” Between Decision Processes and Crisis Types – The Consequences of Crises – Summary and Conclusion Keywords: management, process,
Teri Jane Ursacki-Bryant received her PhD from the University of British Columbia and joined the Faculty of Management (now the Haskayne School of Business) at the University of Calgary in 1990. Her research has focused on managerial and public policy issues in Asia, particularly Japan, China, and Korea. Most recently her work has dealt with crisis management in an international context. Her research has appeared in journals such as Strategic Management Journal, Journal of Banking and Finance, Pacific Affairs, and the Asia-Pacific Journal of Management as well as in numerous book chapters. She is a past president of the Japan Studies Association of Canada. Ilan Vertinsky is the Vinod Sood Professor of International Business Studies, operations logistics, business economics and strategy. He is also Director of the W. Maurice Young Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital Research Center and a member of the Institute of Asian Research and the Institute of Resource Management, Environment and Sustainability at the University of British Columbia. He is an affiliated distinguished professor at the Atkinson School of Management at Willamette University. He has published more than 250 journal articles, book chapters, and monographs. His current research projects include a study of global crisis management, a study of innovation in clusters, and a study of new institutional designs for sustainable forest management. Carolyne Smart, PhD, is Associate Professor of Business Strategy at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, BC, Canada. Carolyne's research centers on crisis management in public and private organizations. Her most recent work examines the management of major public health crises and the significant policy and governmental issues involved. She also has a long-term interest in female entrepreneurship and the factors that lead to successful female owned enterprises. A long time professor with SFU Business, Carolyne has held a number of executive positions within the faculty, most recently as Dean Pro Tem. She also established and ran the former Resource Centre for Women Entrepreneurs.	Carolyne Smart External web page Ilan Vertinsky External web page