Organizational adaptations in disaster management: The use of digital innovation

Abstract

Due to the negative social and economic impacts of the increasing frequency and severity of disasters, countries, and international communities have made improving methods for managing disasters a key priority. To overcome these difficulties, institutions/organizations need to be resilient by developing strategies regarding the devastating effects of post-disasters. The critical task in designing digital adaptive systems is to identify the foundations for effective organizational adaptation. Organizational adaptation is one of the most common concepts in organizational theory and strategic management. Many perspectives, dating from the early 20th century to the emergence of scientific management (Taylor, 1911) and industrial management (Fayol, 1916, 1949), have highlighted the role of adaptation in explaining organizational success (Aldrich and Ruef, 2006). There is an assumption in the literature that managers have the capacity to evaluate their environment, take action, and take advantage of opportunities and new technologies to be successful and increase the chances of the survival of organizations. Awareness of the concepts of innovation or novelty is becoming increasingly widespread in both business and daily life. There is a need to understand and assimilate innovation in social life and to increase the effects of innovations on the efficiency of organizational and social outputs. In this context, it is important to carry out studies on innovation and the assimilation of digital innovation in its new form in the public sector, the private sector, and the social base. © 2025 Nova Science Publishers, Inc. All rights reserved.