A case of flood response in Sri Lanka: Surviving floods through social capital and situational leadership

This chapter highlights a sustaining innovation strategy employed by a group of disaster management stakeholders belonging to a local government unit in Sri Lanka. This chapter elaborates how these stakeholders deal with their operational knowledge transfer difficulties such as lack of resources, ambiguous procedures, and knowledge transfer disruptions due to negative community perceptions. The sustaining innovation strategy discussed in this case study throws a light on how these stakeholders involve in social innovation incrementally, often in response to the knowledge transfer demands of the response activities and the needs of the disaster-affected community. This chapter also elaborates on the practical routings followed, improvising the resource demands that are difficult to acquire in general task-oriented settings by sustaining innovation strategy through social connections and situational leadership.