Functioneering in a Time of Disruption: Idealism, Realism, and Pragmatism

• In Event: Emergency Management

Brief Overview

We analyze the tension between functioneering (rapid, ad hoc crisis response) and muddling through (slow, standard adaptation) using COVID-19 public procurement data to investigate if departments engineered new procedures or abandoned old ones.

Authors

• Eric W Prier, Florida Atlantic University

• Clifford P McCue, Florida Atlantic University