core.ac.uk: CRISIS AND CRISIS MANAGEMENT - A CONTRIBUTION TO A CONCEPTUAL & TERMINOLOGICAL DELIMITATION. Scientific review article UDK 005.334 Received: March 21st, 2008, backup Citat: "...the term “crisis” does not have a clear or uniform conceptual content. Instead, there are numerous and often mutually divergent interpretations...Paul t’Hart has given a contemporary definition of crisis, describing it as an “unpleasant event that represents a challenge for decision-makers, tempts them to act under conditions of imperilment, time constraint and unpreparedness.” Crisis is a “serious threat to the basic structures or fundamental values and norms of a social system, which, under conditions of time pressure and very uncertain circumstances, demands the bringing of critical decisions.” This definition has two important characteristics. Its significant advantage lies in the fact that it can be applied to all types of disruptions (ecological threats, breakdowns of informational-communications systems, economic crisis, intrastate conflicts, jail mutinies, regional wars, factory explosions and natural catastrophes). This very characteristic demands a multidisciplinary approach in understanding crises. Secondly, this definition directs our attention toward decision-making: crises are seen as an opportunity to make critical decisions...Thus, the essence of things lies in the fact that crisis is not just an event per se but an event for us (Ding-fur-uns), i.e. that it assumes a subject-object relationship...Differently from a crisis, an emergency situation is mainly solved by routine operative procedures within the framework of an organization’s existing capacities. A second distinction is the sufficiency (availability) of resources for solving an emergency situation, as distinct from a crisis...In such a divided concept, crisis refers to the process of observing disturbances, and catastrophe to the time when the collective evaluates that process in negative terms. In such a perspective, crisis is a “catastrophe with a bad outcome.” It may be said that catastrophe represents a sub-category
of the generic concept of crisis..."
merriam-webster.com: crisis, backup Citat: "...3 a : an unstable or crucial time or state of affairs in which a decisive change is impending especially : one with the distinct possibility of a highly undesirable outcome..."
merriam-webster.com: crisis, backup Citat: "...3 a : an unstable or crucial time or state of affairs in which a decisive change is impending especially : one with the distinct possibility of a highly undesirable outcome..."
core.ac.uk: CRISIS AND CRISIS MANAGEMENT - A CONTRIBUTION TO A CONCEPTUAL & TERMINOLOGICAL DELIMITATION. Scientific review article UDK 005.334 Received: March 21st, 2008, backup Citat: "...the term “crisis” does not have a clear or uniform conceptual content. Instead, there are numerous and often mutually divergent interpretations...Paul t’Hart has given a contemporary definition of crisis, describing it as an “unpleasant event that represents a challenge for decision-makers, tempts them to act under conditions of imperilment, time constraint and unpreparedness.” Crisis is a “serious threat to the basic structures or fundamental values and norms of a social system, which, under conditions of time pressure and very uncertain circumstances, demands the bringing of critical decisions.” This definition has two important characteristics. Its significant advantage lies in the fact that it can be applied to all types of disruptions (ecological threats, breakdowns of informational-communications systems, economic crisis, intrastate conflicts, jail mutinies, regional wars, factory explosions and natural catastrophes). This very characteristic demands a multidisciplinary approach in understanding crises. Secondly, this definition directs our attention toward decision-making: crises are seen as an opportunity to make critical decisions...Thus, the essence of things lies in the fact that crisis is not just an event per se but an event for us (Ding-fur-uns), i.e. that it assumes a subject-object relationship...Differently from a crisis, an emergency situation is mainly solved by routine operative procedures within the framework of an organization’s existing capacities. A second distinction is the sufficiency (availability) of resources for solving an emergency situation, as distinct from a crisis...In such a divided concept, crisis refers to the process of observing disturbances, and catastrophe to the time when the collective evaluates that process in negative terms. In such a perspective, crisis is a “catastrophe with a bad outcome.” It may be said that catastrophe represents a sub-category
of the generic concept of crisis..."
