A CASE OF ORGANIZATIONAL LEARNING: SEISMIC RESPONSE TO THE DUZCE EARTHQUAKE
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The dynamic relationships among physical, social and constructed systems make organizational learning and adaptation more than necessary for disaster organizations. Sociotechnical disaster systems with sufficient organizational, technical, and cultural capacities can self-learn and self-adapt to the changing conditions in their environments. This paper examines the organizational learning that occurred after the 1999 Marmara earthquake. The study uses 44 semistructured interviews as well as post-disaster critiques by participating organizations, analyses by researchers, national and international professional organizations, and news reports from Cumhuriyet daily news paper. The findings of the study reveal that the 1999 Marmara earthquake started a change process in the Turkish disaster management system. Although the change process was not sufficient for creating a sociotechnical disaster system, the improvements in the organizational, technical, and cultural aspects facilitated better coordination and faster response operations after the Duzce earthquake.
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Organizational learning, disaster management, Duzce earthquake, sociotechnical systems
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