’ component across markets. Against the background of the recent financial crisis, the aim is to contribute to the literature on …

Africa has been hard hit by the international crisis. Initially exogenous and above all financial, it has exacerbated …

Crisis response highly depends on managers’ use of information technologies (IT). Given the growing frequency of crisis …, it is urgent to concretely investigate IT use in crisis response. Still, crisis characteristics have been tacitly … not match to the reality of crisis. Knowledge on IT usage in crisis response is missing and managers lack specific …

This papers aims at understanding the role of sense when actors improvise during crisis. Literature about improvisation … a bridge between crisis and improvisation enable us to identify three mechanisms related to sense that contribute to … organizational improvisation in crisis response –detection, mobilization, response- as well as mechanisms that take part into the …

Improvisation is a core dimension of crisis response. It helps organizations to deal with complexity and to figure … innovative responses to crisis in a short delay. Still, our knowledge on how improvisation develops cognitively is scarce. As a … reviewing literature on crisis and improvisation to develop an artifact and deduce requirements for technology. We rely on the …

little studied. The economic crisis in 2008-2009 represents a good opportunity to analyze these slacks. A longitudinal case …

The paper addresses the theoretical and methodological challenges of doing ethnographic work in a political crisis … of personal and political elements when doing research in a crisis context. The following questions are addressed in this …

out of the current crisis. Overall, our results indicate that markets are more integrated since the crisis, which suggest …