TY - JOUR
T1 - Health crisis and the EU’s HERA
T2 - amplifying partial organizing with resourcing for stability, agility, and evolvability
AU - Välikangas, Liisa
AU - Luistro-Jonsson, Marijane
AU - Jarvenpaa, Sirkka L.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Organizational Design Community.
PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - What design recommendations can be made for European Union (EU) organizing its health crisis preparedness and emergency response? The EU has recently established the Health Emergency Response and Health Authority (HERA) for coping with crises. However, as an international organization that lacks a legal means of extending its mandate over EU member states, HERA can potentially fail in its mission. To help prevent this potential failure, we make design recommendations that draw on resourcing theory to complement the limited—or partial—organizing capabilities of HERA. The design recommendations are tailored to three schemas that the analysis of the stakeholder feedback suggests: stability, agility, and evolvability. We outline HERA’s current actions and deliverables as mandated in its founding and suggest additional examples of ways to amplify crisis preparedness and emergency response. These recommendations stem from the proposed resourcing perspective within the constraints of an international, partial organization. We conclude with implications for future research and practice, focusing on how stability, agility and evolvability can amplify the HERA’s ability to meet its expectations.
AB - What design recommendations can be made for European Union (EU) organizing its health crisis preparedness and emergency response? The EU has recently established the Health Emergency Response and Health Authority (HERA) for coping with crises. However, as an international organization that lacks a legal means of extending its mandate over EU member states, HERA can potentially fail in its mission. To help prevent this potential failure, we make design recommendations that draw on resourcing theory to complement the limited—or partial—organizing capabilities of HERA. The design recommendations are tailored to three schemas that the analysis of the stakeholder feedback suggests: stability, agility, and evolvability. We outline HERA’s current actions and deliverables as mandated in its founding and suggest additional examples of ways to amplify crisis preparedness and emergency response. These recommendations stem from the proposed resourcing perspective within the constraints of an international, partial organization. We conclude with implications for future research and practice, focusing on how stability, agility and evolvability can amplify the HERA’s ability to meet its expectations.
KW - Crisis preparedness
KW - Design
KW - Emergency response
KW - EU
KW - HERA
KW - International organization
KW - Partial organization
KW - Resourcing
KW - Resourcing theory
KW - Schemas
U2 - 10.1007/s41469-022-00125-7
DO - 10.1007/s41469-022-00125-7
M3 - Journal article
AN - SCOPUS:85138198822
SN - 2245-408X
VL - 11
SP - 169
EP - 187
JO - Journal of Organization Design
JF - Journal of Organization Design
ER -