Empirical Study on the Inter-organizational Communication in the Case of Expressway Emergency

Abstract

Abstract:

Based on a typicalexpressway emergency case of the 12.5 black powder explosion on Jingzhu Expressway, we build an expressway emergency inter-organizational communication network and then analyze the communication barriers from the perspective of network analysis. We find that in hierarchical structures level, expressway operators lack communication with the grassroots local government; the subgroup that has business contact with expressway operators in normal condition and the subgroup that has no business relationship with expressway operators hardly share information with each other in the case of emergency; the subgroup that has no business relationship with expressway operators in normal condition is of great disparity in communication intensity internally and the center and edge differentiate significantly, hence tending to cause over load for the core organization; in the contrast, the communication goes well within subgroups that have business contact with expressway operators normally.

Key words: expressway emergency, emergency information, communication network

Lei Liping. Empirical Study on the Inter-organizational Communication in the Case of Expressway Emergency[J]. , 2015, 27(9): 213-220.

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