Self-Organization Response in a Crisis: A Case Study of a Shanghai Community during COVID-19 in 2022

Abstract

AbstractThis study examines how self-organizing groups function during crisis response in China’s centralized system. Through case analysis of a Shanghai community during COVID-19, we investigate how emergent citizen groups establish legitimate ...Practical ApplicationsThis research examines how volunteer groups successfully organized themselves during Shanghai’s COVID-19 outbreaks within China’s hierarchical government system. We found that these groups evolved through five distinct phases, ...