Gerald Mars, David T. H. Weir

Risk Management

Volume II: Management and Control

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

First published in 2000, Risk Management is a two volume set, comprised of the most significant and influential articles by the leading authorities in the studies of risk management.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 606
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. September 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 1030g
• ISBN-13: 9780367244507
• ISBN-10: 0367244500
• Artikelnr.: 60019196

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements Series Preface Introduction Estimating Engineering Risk 2.
Measuring Disaster Trends, Part I: Some Observations on the Bradford
Fatality Scale 3. Measuring Disaster Trends Part II: Statistics and
Underlying Processes 4. Financial Distress Prediction Models: A Review of
their Usefulness 5. Early-Warning-Signals Management: A Lesson From the
Barings Crisis 6. Towards a Systemic Crisis Management Strategy:
Learning From the Best Examples in the US, Canada and France 7. The Role of
Risk and Return in Information Technology Outsourcing Decisions 8.
Close-Coupled Disasters: How Oil Majors are De-Integrating and Then
Managing Contractors 9. Autonomy, Interdependence and Social Control: NASA
and the Space Shuttle Challenger 10. Complexity, Tight-Coupling and
Reliability: Connecting Normal Accidents Theory and High Reliability Theory
11. Culture and Communications: Countering Conspiracies in Organizational
Risk Management 12. Identifying the Cultural Causes of Disasters: An
Analysis of the Hillsborough Football Stadium Disaster 13. Technical
Analysis of the IIASA Energy Scenarios 14. From Crisis Prone to Crisis
Prepared: A Framework for Crisis Management 15. Global Environmental
Change: Management Under Long-Range Uncertainty 16. Operationalizing the
Theory of Cultural Complexity: A Practical Approach to Risk Perceptions and
Workplace Behaviours 17. Managing Risk in Advanced Manufacturing Technology
18. The Culture Of High Reliability: Quantative and Qualitative Assessment
Aboard Nuclear-Powered Aircraft Carriers 19. Company Failure or Company
Health? - Techniques for Measuring Company Health 20. Corporate Risk
Management: A New Nightmare in the Boardroom 21. 'Safety Cultures' in
British Stadia and Sporting Venues 22. The Human Side of the Banks: Credit
Management of Small Firms - A Cognitive Approach to Corporate Evaluation
23. Management of Bank Loans to Small Firms in a Market with Asymmetric
Information: An Integrated Concept 24. Prevention is Better Than Cure in
Crisis Management: How to Turn a Crisis into an Opportunity 25. The
Man-Made Machine Interface and its Impact on Shipping Safety 26.
Organization and the Management of Safety Risks in the Chemical Process
Industry 27. The Development of a Safety Culture 28. The Limits to Safety?
Culture, Politics, Learning and Man-Made Disasters 29. Redefining the
Issues of Risk and Public Acceptance. The Social Viability of Technology
30. The Schematic Report Analysis Diagram: A Simple Aid to Learning from
Large-Scale Failures 31. Decision Making Under Contradictory Certainties:
How to Save the Himalayas When You Can't Find Out What's Wrong With Them
32. Organizations and Systematic Distortion of Information 33. Safety
Culture, Corporate Culture, Organizational Transformation and the
Commitment to Safety 34. The Failure of Hindsight 35. Risk, Uncertainty and
Nuclear Power 36. Crisis Management and Environmentalism: A Natural Fit
Name Index