Collection

AEE Journal

Authors

Suzan Alaswad; Sinan Salman

coordination betweenrelief organizations. Where market forces regulate commercial supply chains and incentivize betterperformance, humanitarian supply chains operate without such forces and so have little incentiveto learn from previous performance issues. In addition, the number and diversity of actors involvedin disaster response make coordination between them particularly complex. For example, thenumber of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) involved in the 2010 Haiti earthquake disasterwas estimated between 3,000 and 10,000 organizations (Tatham and Pettit 2010). Typically, theseorganizations include local and international NGOs who need to overcome cultural and languagebarriers to coordination. In commercial supply chains, market demand and