Revisiting key issues about collective behavior, organizing, and role enactment

This article addresses the benefits of using a structural code and a role a nalysis framework for conducting organizational research in the context of a disaster. In the present article, I apply that code and framework to Thom as Forrest's earlier analysis of a organization, the Interfaith Emergency C enter (IEC), that emerged during the Detroit civil disturbance of 1967. Kre ps' structural code is applied to the same set of interviews and documents that constituted the database for Forrest's original case study (Disaster R esearch Center data archives). I first document the origins and restructuri ng of the IEC using the structural code. I then perform a role level analys is that builds on Bosworth and Kreps' three dimensional framework. That fra mework addresses the expectational, relational, and behavioral dimensions o f role enactment. Revisiting Forrest's original study results in a more the oretically rich analysis of how and why the IEC emerged in the way that it did during the emergency period.