caa a22 4500 606223002 CHVBK 20210128101136.0 cr unu---uuuuu 210128e20150901xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s11115-014-0284-9 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s11115-014-0284-9 Chaos Theory and Organizational Crisis: A Theoretical Analysis of the Challenges Faced by the New Orleans Police Department During Hurricane Katrina [Elektronische Daten] [Terri Adams, Larry Stewart] The Hurricane Katrina disaster presented the first responder agencies of New Orleans with an extraordinary set of circumstances. Although all first responder operations were hampered by the disaster, the police department's struggles were made most visible in the media. This article examines the impact of Hurricane Katrina on the organizational functions of the New Orleans Police Department (NOPD) during and immediately after the disaster using chaos theory as a model for analyzing the crisis faced by the department. Chaos theory has implications for a variety of features that are essential to organizational functions and management behavior that are relevant to first responder agencies. Review of the challenges faced by NOPD has implications for preparedness plans for other first responder agencies. Springer Science+Business Media New York, 2014 Chaos Theory nationallicence Natural Disasters nationallicence Hurricane Katrina nationallicence First Responders nationallicence New Orleans Police Department nationallicence Adams Terri Department of Sociology & Anthropology, Howard University, 20059, Washington, DC, USA aut Stewart Larry Department of Social and Behavioral Science, Savannah State University, Savannah, USA aut Public Organization Review Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 15/3(2015-09-01), 415-431 1566-7170 15:3<415 2015 15 11115 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11115-014-0284-9 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11115-014-0284-9 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Adams Terri Department of Sociology & Anthropology, Howard University, 20059, Washington, DC, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Stewart Larry Department of Social and Behavioral Science, Savannah State University, Savannah, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Public Organization Review Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 15/3(2015-09-01), 415-431 1566-7170 15:3<415 2015 15 11115