Abstract:

The earthquake served as the impetus for change in many Anchorage organizations to the extent that it brought about certain new environmental and internal conditions, In the process of adjusting to these new conditions, some organizations experienced long-term change in their structure and disaster planning.  In several organizations the disaster generated new patterns of change and in others it merely accelerated preexisting patterns.  Long-term change seems not to have occurred in organizations that did not have to adapt to a new set of environmental circumstances, or when potential changes were of low priority in relation to other organizational concerns..

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