Crisis-response strategy is a robust area in the field of crisis-management research. Dr.Xiaoli Lv，an excellent young Chinese scholar on crisis-management research，has formulated and applied a model of organizational construction and system theory to a crisis situation based on theanalytical techniques of process tracingand comparative research in four large U.S. organizations that face high uncertainties to illustrate whether the institutional level affects the selection of an organizational crisis-response strategy to cope with crisis uncertainties，and how the institutionalization will affect the decision-making process in terms of coping with crisis situations. The findings reveal that during the initial stage of a crisis both highly institutionalized organizations and organizations with a low institutional level tend to choose a coping strategy based on the regulations. Highly institutionalized organizations persist in their selected strategies even after experiencing failure. A sudden change of circumstances caused by the crisis will not necessarily lead to the construction of meaning. However，the institutionalization of the organization can affect the transformation of the organization’s coping strategies. Overall，Prof.Lv’s research on how to manage uncertainty in crisis situations is timely and profound，bridging the gap between institutional thinking and decision-making in crisis-response strategies.