TAKEDA, Margaret B.

"Bureaucracy, meet catastrophe" : analysis of the tsunami disaster relief efforts and their implications for global emergency governance - Bradford, UK : Emerald, 2006

An analysis of the way the bureaucratic management system responded to the tsunami disaster of December 26, 2004 is used as an example to highlight the severe shortcomings of the bureaucratic model as a paradigm for responding to situations in which the magnitude of the system's task is overwhelmingly complex and the timing process is bounded by urgency