Emergency Contracting for Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans Gulf Area [chapter]

Mary M. Dickens Johnson
2008 Disaster Management Handbook  
The organizational capability to provide remedy and relief to hurricane affected areas requires leadership and bureaucratic skills within an institutional framework of professionalism and commitment to objectives. In the case of Hurricane Katrina aftermath, U.S. taxpayers paid $2 billion is mismanagement out of the $19 billion expended. An examination of organizational failings within theoretical context and possible pointers for creating an organizational structure that would prove more effective is provided.
doi:10.1201/9781420058635.ch10 fatcat:hflb5t4d7vfjbfrs3y7yqh6wky