Abstract
Network Centric Operations is a promising command doctrine in both military operations and during civil disaster management. As both sectors started intensifying their joint operational capacity through civil-military collaboration, it becomes increasingly relevant to address the different command doctrines underlying Network Centric Operations in both sectors. In this Chapter I explore the origins of network governance in both sectors and argue what steps need to be taken in order overcome the differences. I argue that governing the heterogeneous set of organizations that operate in disaster response networks requires a new approach for Network Centric Operations that does not only rely upon information sharing and self-synchronization. Instead, it requires negotiation, sensemaking, and network switching in order to overcome the different functional, normative and knowledge boundaries that come into play in heterogeneous disaster response networks.
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Comfort and Kapucu 2006.
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Houghton et al. 2008.
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Comfort and Kapucu 2006.
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Committee Oosting 2001.
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Committee Alders 2001.
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Committee Alders 2001, p. 215.
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Committee Oosting 2001, p. 162 and p. 270.
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Boom 2000.
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Remkes and Kamp 2006.
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Boersma et al. 2012.
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Fewell and Hazen 2003.
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Hayes 2007.
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Houghton et al. 2008.
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Van Bezooijen and Kramer 2015.
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Morris et al. 2007.
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Van Creveld 1989.
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Shamir 2010.
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Von Clausewitz 1873.
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Keithly and Ferris 1999.
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Alberts and Hayes 2003.
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Alberts and Hayes 2003.
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Hayes 2007.
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Comfort 2007.
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Boersma et al. 2014.
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Quarantelli and Dynes 1977.
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Helsloot and Ruitenberg 2004.
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Solnit 2010.
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Tierney et al. 2006.
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Dynes 1994.
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Helsloot and Ruitenberg 2004.
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Scholtens 2008.
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Provan and Kenis 2008.
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Fewel and Hazen 2003, p. 2.
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Fewel and Hazen 2003, p. 2.
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Wolbers 2016.
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Barley and Kunda 2001.
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Watson-Manheim et al. 2012.
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Rico et al. 2008.
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Okhuysen and Bechky 2009.
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Bigley and Roberts 2001.
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Kellogg et al. 2006.
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Vaughan 1999.
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Alberts et al. 2001.
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Wolbers and Boersma 2013.
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Weick et al. 2005.
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Taber et al. 2008.
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Comfort and Kapucu 2006.
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Wolbers, J. (2016). Enhancing Network Centric Operations Doctrine to Support Civil Military Cooperation in Disaster Management. In: Beeres, R., Bakx, G., de Waard, E., Rietjens, S. (eds) NL ARMS Netherlands Annual Review of Military Studies 2016. NL ARMS. T.M.C. Asser Press, The Hague. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6265-135-7_6
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