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View article: Early Warnings, No Actions: A Practice Perspective on Barriers to Anticipatory Action Approaches
Early Warnings, No Actions: A Practice Perspective on Barriers to Anticipatory Action Approaches Open
Within the manifold approaches of climate adaptation efforts and resilience building, anticipatory action (AA) presents a promising, novel approach that emphasizes acting before a disaster strikes, shifting from reactive crisis response to…
View article: Anticipatory Action in River Flooding Risk Management in Nigeria: An Assessment of Community‐Level Implementation
Anticipatory Action in River Flooding Risk Management in Nigeria: An Assessment of Community‐Level Implementation Open
Across the world, communities face annual and increasingly extreme flood events, yet there is a widespread lack of proactive preparedness. This failure to anticipate and mitigate flood risks deepens the damages experienced, stalling develo…
View article: The Downward Spiral of Legitimacy Erosion: Lessons on Network Governance Failure During the German “Refugee Crisis”
The Downward Spiral of Legitimacy Erosion: Lessons on Network Governance Failure During the German “Refugee Crisis” Open
Organizational legitimacy is essential for effective crisis governance. This study analyzes the rapid erosion of legitimacy faced by the German State Office for Health and Social Affairs (LAGeSo) during the 2015 refugee crisis, triggering …
View article: Organizing and Strategizing in and for Extreme Contexts: Temporality, Emotions, and Embodiment
Organizing and Strategizing in and for Extreme Contexts: Temporality, Emotions, and Embodiment Open
This special issue advances our understanding of organizing and strategizing in extreme contexts by focusing on temporality, emotions, and embodiment. Extreme contexts – marked by unpredictability, high stakes, and urgency – challenge orga…
View article: Crisis? What Crisis? The Contestation of Urgency in Creeping Crises
Crisis? What Crisis? The Contestation of Urgency in Creeping Crises Open
Whilst research on extreme contexts has mainly studied responses to and perceptions of urgency in abrupt crisis settings, this paper examines the construction and contestation of urgency in ambiguous creeping crisis settings. It builds on …
View article: From coordinating in space to coordinating through space: A spatial perspective on coordinating
From coordinating in space to coordinating through space: A spatial perspective on coordinating Open
The spatial turn in organization studies has redefined our understanding of physical space, portraying it no longer as a passive backdrop for organizational actions but as actively produced through organizational actions and as shaping org…
View article: Academia in the Post‐Pandemic World: Leapfrogging into the Unknown – Tales from Organizing EGOS 2020
Academia in the Post‐Pandemic World: Leapfrogging into the Unknown – Tales from Organizing EGOS 2020 Open
Over the past months, we have been witnessing nothing less than a radical rupture in the globally shared “institutional fabric”: ‘discontinuities in the taken-for-granted features of global society that have developed over the past decades…
View article: Getting Ahead of Time—Performing Temporal Boundaries to Coordinate Routines under Temporal Uncertainty
Getting Ahead of Time—Performing Temporal Boundaries to Coordinate Routines under Temporal Uncertainty Open
In this ethnographic study of firefighters we explore how routines are coordinated under high levels of temporal uncertainty—when the timing of critical events cannot be known in advance and temporal misalignment creates substantial risks.…
View article: Managing enduring public health emergencies such as COVID-19: lessons from Uganda Red Cross Society’s Ebola virus disease response operation
Managing enduring public health emergencies such as COVID-19: lessons from Uganda Red Cross Society’s Ebola virus disease response operation Open
Background In this piece, we translate insights from our study of routine coordination in the Ebola virus disease response operation by Uganda Red Cross Society (URCS) for managing long-lasting public health emergencies. We further show ho…
View article: Biosynthetic approach to combine the first steps of cardenolide formation in <i>Saccharomyces cerevisiae</i>
Biosynthetic approach to combine the first steps of cardenolide formation in <i>Saccharomyces cerevisiae</i> Open
A yeast expression plasmid was constructed containing a cardenolide biosynthetic module, referred to as CARD II, using the AssemblX toolkit, which enables the assembly of large DNA constructs. The genes cloned into the vector were (a) a Δ …
View article: Expression, crystallization and structure elucidation of γ-terpinene synthase from<i>Thymus vulgaris</i>
Expression, crystallization and structure elucidation of γ-terpinene synthase from<i>Thymus vulgaris</i> Open
The biosynthesis of γ-terpinene, a precursor of the phenolic isomers thymol and carvacrol found in the essential oil from Thymus sp., is attributed to the activitiy of γ-terpinene synthase (TPS). Purified γ-terpinene synthase from T. vulga…