Gerald Mars, David T. H. Weir

Risk Management

Volume I: Theories, Cases, Policies and Politics Volume II: Management and Control

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Produktbeschreibung

This title was first published in 2000: The International Library of Management is a comprehensive core reference series comprised of the most significant and influential articles by the leading authorities in the management studies field. Volumes in the series include a full-length introduction from the editor, an internationally recognized expert, which provides an authoritative guide to the selection of essays chosen and to the wider field itself. The collections of essays is both international and interdisciplinary in scope and provides an entry point for investigating the myriad of study within the discipline.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 588
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. November 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 170mm x 31mm
• Gewicht: 984g
• ISBN-13: 9781138739789
• ISBN-10: 1138739782
• Artikelnr.: 58314432

Autorenporträt

Gerald Mars, Honorary Professor of Anthropology, University College, London, UK and David T.H. Weir, Professor, CERAM SOPHIA ANTIPOLIS, France

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Volume I: Part 1 Theories and Background: Risk as a forensic
resource: from 'chance' to 'danger', Mary Douglas; From industrial society
to the risk society: questions of survival, social structure and ecological
enlightenment, Ulrich Beck; Managing crime risks: toward an insurance based
model of social control, Nancy Reichman; The psychology of risk perception,
Nick Pidgeon; Theories of risk perception: who fears what and why?, Aaron
Wildavsky and Karl Drake; Human factor failure and the comparative
structure of jobs, Gerald Mars; Management of radiation hazards and
hospitals: plural rationalities in a single institution, Steve Rayner;
Explaining risk perception: an empirical evaluation of cultural theory,
Lennart Sjöberg. Part 2 Theories and Cases: The organizational and
interorganizational development of disasters, Barry A. Turner; Causes of
disaster: sloppy management, Barry A. Turner; Communications factors in
system failure or why big planes crash and big businesses fail, David T.H.
Weir; Understanding industrial crises, Paul Shrivastava, Ian I. Mitroff,
Danny Miller, and Anil Miglani; Prosaic organizational failure, Lee Clarke
and Charles Perrow; Organizational escalation and exit: lessons from the
Shoreham nuclear power plant, Jerry Ross and Barry M. Staw; Challenging the
orthodoxy in risk management, Clive Smallman; Roger Boisjoly and the
Challenger disaster: the ethical dimensions, Roger Boisjoly, Ellen Foster
Curtis and Eugene Mellican; Industrial sabotage: motives and meanings,
Laurie Taylor and Paul Walton; Crime and punishment in the factory: the
function of deviancy in maintaining the social system, Joseph Bensman and
Israel Gerver; A sociological analysis of dud behaviour in the United
States army, H. Eugene Hodges. Part 3 Policies and Politics: Endemic and
planned corruption in a monarchical regime, John Waterbury; Control over
bureaucracy: cultural theory and institutional variety, Christopher Hood;
Major chemical accidents in industrializing countries: the socio-political
amplification of risk, Marcello Firpo de Souza Porto and Carlos Machado de
Freitas; Rumours and crises: a case study of the banking industry,
Christophe Roux-Dufort and Thierry C. Pauchant; Time, Glenda, please, John
Dodd; Risk communication and the social amplification of risk; theory,
evidence and policy implications, Nick Pidgeon; TSI and government
intervention in the management of risk-taking in the banking industry,
David Marshall; Risk and governance part I: the discourses of climate
change, Michael Thompson, Steve Rayner and Steven Ney; Risk and governance
part II: policy in a complex and plurally perceived world, Michael
Thompson, Steve Rayner and Steven Ney; Index. Volume II: Estimating
engineering risk, The Royal Society; Measuring disaster trends, part I :
some observations on the Bradford fatality scale, T. Horlick-Jones and G.
Peters; Measuring disaster trends part II: statistics and underlying
processes, T. Horlick-Jones, J. Fortune and G. Peters; Financial distress
prediction models: a review of their usefulness, Kevin Keasey and Robert
Watson; Early-warning-signals management: a lesson from the Barings crisis,
Zachary Sheaffer, Bill Richardson and Zehava Rosenblatt; Towards a systemic
crisis management strategy: learning from the best examples in the US,
Canada and France, Thierry C. Pauchant, Ian I. Mitroff and Patrick Lagadec;
The role of risk and return in information technology outsourcing
decisions, Jaak Jurison; Close-coupled disasters: how oil majors are
de-integrating and then managing contractors, Neil Ritson; Autonomy,
Interdependence and social control: NASA and the space shuttle Challenger,
Diane Vaughan; Complexity, tight-coupling and reliability: connecting
normal accidents theory and high reliability theory, Jos A. Rijpma; Culture
and communications: countering conspiracies in organizational risk
management, Clive Smallman and D.T.H. Weir; Identifying the cultural causes
of disasters: an analysis of the Hillsborough football stadium disaster,
William Richardson; Technical analysis of the IIASA energy scenarios, Bill
Keepin and Brian Wynne; From crisis prone to crisis prepared: a framework
for crisis management, Christine M. Pearson and Ian I. Mitroff; Global
environmental change: management under long-range uncertainty, Peter
Nijkamp; Operationalizing the theory of cultural complexity: a practical
approach to risk perceptions and workplace behaviours, Gerald Mars and
Steve Frosdick; Managing risk in advanced manufacturing technology, James
W. Dean Jr.; The culture of high reliability: quantative and qualitative
assessment aboard nuclear-powered aircraft carriers, Karlene H. Roberts,
Denise M. Rousseau and Todd R. La Porte; Company failure or company health?
- techniques for measuring company health, John Robertson and Roger W.
Mills; Corporate risk management: a new nightmare in the boardroom, Matthew
Bishop; 'Safety cultures' in British stadia and sporting venues: understand