Organizational Science
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Organizational Theory for Disaster Volunteers:
Toward the Improvisation Production
Tomohide Atsumi
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2012 Volume 45 Issue 4 Pages 36-46

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As a disaster diminishes existing social norms, even temporarily, there emerges a disaster utopia or paradise where people improvise their supporting behaviors toward others. However, it only lasts for a short time period. This study, firstly, introduces and analyzes several concepts of improvisation produced by disaster volunteers and disaster non-profit organizations. Secondly, based on the case of the Great East Japan Earthquake, the study presents a possible strategy to produce further improvisation.

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