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Ambidextrous humanitarian organizations
The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted life as usual around the globe. Efforts to control the spread of the virus with lockdowns and border closures pushed millions of people into food and social insecurity. Most research on humanitarian organizations have been dominated by the uncertainty and urgency of d...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8561364/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34744241 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10479-021-04370-z |
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author | Narayanan, Arunachalam Altay, Nezih |
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description | The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted life as usual around the globe. Efforts to control the spread of the virus with lockdowns and border closures pushed millions of people into food and social insecurity. Most research on humanitarian organizations have been dominated by the uncertainty and urgency of disaster response operations. However, some humanitarian organizations also operate in long-term continuous aid programs where efficiency is the key goal. We analyzed the operations of food banks in the Feeding America network and The Salvation Army USA, and found them to be ambidextrous organizations. The ambidextrous humanitarian organizations like food banks and Salvation Army, focus on long-term continuous aid programs, specifically pertaining to the sustenance of the communities they serve, but also play a key part as first responders or as local agencies aiding in disaster relief and response. We propose a framework to analyze disaster, development, and sustenance aid supply chains, and identify future research opportunities. |
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spelling | pubmed-85613642021-11-02 Ambidextrous humanitarian organizations Narayanan, Arunachalam Altay, Nezih Ann Oper Res Original Research The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted life as usual around the globe. Efforts to control the spread of the virus with lockdowns and border closures pushed millions of people into food and social insecurity. Most research on humanitarian organizations have been dominated by the uncertainty and urgency of disaster response operations. However, some humanitarian organizations also operate in long-term continuous aid programs where efficiency is the key goal. We analyzed the operations of food banks in the Feeding America network and The Salvation Army USA, and found them to be ambidextrous organizations. The ambidextrous humanitarian organizations like food banks and Salvation Army, focus on long-term continuous aid programs, specifically pertaining to the sustenance of the communities they serve, but also play a key part as first responders or as local agencies aiding in disaster relief and response. We propose a framework to analyze disaster, development, and sustenance aid supply chains, and identify future research opportunities. Springer US 2021-11-02 /pmc/articles/PMC8561364/ /pubmed/34744241 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10479-021-04370-z Text en © The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature 2021 This article is made available via the PMC Open Access Subset for unrestricted research re-use and secondary analysis in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for the duration of the World Health Organization (WHO) declaration of COVID-19 as a global pandemic. |
spellingShingle | Original Research Narayanan, Arunachalam Altay, Nezih Ambidextrous humanitarian organizations |
title | Ambidextrous humanitarian organizations |
title_full | Ambidextrous humanitarian organizations |
title_fullStr | Ambidextrous humanitarian organizations |
title_full_unstemmed | Ambidextrous humanitarian organizations |
title_short | Ambidextrous humanitarian organizations |
title_sort | ambidextrous humanitarian organizations |
topic | Original Research |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8561364/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34744241 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10479-021-04370-z |
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