Is emergency management an integrated element of business continuity management? A case study with security professionals in Western Australia
Document Type
Journal Article
Publication Title
Journal of Business Continuity and Emergency Planning
Publisher
Henry Stewart Publications
School
School of Computer and Security Science
RAS ID
17922
Abstract
Emergency management (EM) and business continuity management (BCM) frameworks incorporate various strategic and operational measures. Defined within a number of national and international standards and guidelines, such concepts may be integrated within one another to provide increased resilience to disruptive events. Nevertheless, there is a degree of dispute regarding concept integration among security and EM professionals and bodies of knowledge. In line with cognitive psychology exemplarbased concepts, such disputes may be associated with a lack of precision in communality in the approach to EM and BCM. This paper presents a two-stage study, where stage 1 critiqued national and international literature and stage 2 applied semi-structured interviews with security managers in Western Australia. Findings indicate the existence of contradictory views on EM and its integration within BCM. As such, this study concludes that EM is considered a vital component of BCM by the majority of security managers. However, there is broader dispute regarding its degree of integration. Understanding the underpinnings of such disputes will aid in raising the standards and application of professionalism within security, EM and BCM domains, supporting clarification and definition of professional boundaries.
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Frohde, K., & Brooks, D. (2014). Is emergency management an integrated element of business continuity management? A case study with security professionals in Western Australia. Journal of Business Continuity & Emergency Planning, 8(1), 59-70. Available here