The COVID-19 pandemic posed unprecedented challenges to the joint organizational response of private and public and here especially public health organizations. This is particularly true for airports as central connectors of global travel and trade. For five European airports, we analyzed the interorganizational response based on input from 66 of the 87 different airport partners, using two fictitious scenarios derived from public health practice. We applied organizational design theory and quantitative (network) analysis to show how the four fundamental problems of organizing have been tackled at airports, i.e., task distribution, task allocation, rewards, and information provision. This article shows how the response to COVID-19 in the airport setting needs to be solved within broad and flexible public administrative networks. The thorough understanding of organizational network responses in emergency management following from this article supports future preparedness efforts to deal with complex known and unknown public health threats.

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危机中的适应性组织网络响应：COVID-19 大流行期间五个欧洲机场的案例

COVID-19 大流行对私人和公共组织（尤其是公共卫生组织）的联合组织应对措施提出了前所未有的挑战。对于作为全球旅行和贸易中心连接器的机场来说尤其如此。对于五个欧洲机场，我们根据 87 个不同机场合作伙伴中 66 个的意见，使用源自公共卫生实践的两个虚构场景，分析了组织间的反应。我们应用组织设计理论和定量（网络）分析来展示机场如何解决组织的四个基本问题，即任务分配、任务分配、奖励和信息提供。本文展示了如何在广泛而灵活的公共管理网络中解决机场环境中对 COVID-19 的响应。本文对应急管理中的组织网络响应的透彻理解支持未来应对复杂的已知和未知公共卫生威胁的准备工作。