Evaluation of coordination of emergency response team through the social network analysis. Case study
Creators: name: Bastani, Susan
name: Mohammadfam, Iraj
name: Mahbobeh Esaghi
name: Rostam Golmohamadi
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 140215 Public Economics- Taxation and Revenue
subject: FOS: Economics and business
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subject: 140214 Public Economics- Publically Provided Goods
subject: 140213 Public Economics- Public Choice
subject: 130105 Primary Education (excl. Maori)
subject: FOS: Educational sciences
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subject: 140104 Microeconomic Theory
subject: 140212 Macroeconomics (incl. Monetary and Fiscal Theory)
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subject: 140210 International Economics and International Finance
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subject: 140208 Health Economics
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subject: 140205 Environment and Resource Economics
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subject: Education
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subject: Economics
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subject: 140203 Economic History
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subject: 140302 Econometric and Statistical Methods
subject: 130102 Early Childhood Education (excl. Maori)
subject: 130101 Continuing and Community Education
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subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
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subject: 140219 Welfare Economics
subject: 140217 Transport Economics
subject: Anthropology

description: Background: The purpose of this study was to examine the cohesions status of the coordination within response teams in the emergency response team (ERT) in a refinery. Methods: For this study, cohesion indicators of social network analysis (SNA; density, degree centrality, reciprocity, and transitivity) were utilized to examine the coordination of the response teams as a whole network. The ERT of this research, which was a case study, included seven teams consisting of 152 members. The required data were collected through structured interviews and were analyzed using the UCINET 6.0 Social Network Analysis Program. Results: The results reported a relatively low number of triple connections, poor coordination with key members, and a high level of mutual relations in the network with low density, all implying that there were low cohesions of coordination in the ERT. Conclusion: The results showed that SNA provided a quantitative and logical approach for the examination of the coordination status among response teams and it also provided a main opportunity for managers and planners to have a clear understanding of the presented status. The research concluded that fundamental efforts were needed to improve the presented situations.