Maurizio Catino

Organizational Myopia

Problems of Rationality and Foresight in Organizations

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The book examines the mechanisms that generate myopia in organizations and explores how organizations can foresee and contain unexpected events.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 270
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Juni 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 396g
• ISBN-13: 9781107447219
• ISBN-10: 1107447216
• Artikelnr.: 41250049

Autorenporträt

Maurizio Catino is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology and Social Research at the University of Milan, Bicocca, Italy. He is the author of From Chernobyl to Linate: Technological Accidents or Organizational Errors? (2006) and Understanding Organizations (2012). He has published several articles on learning from organizational errors and the problem of blame culture, medical error and defensive medicine, and the logics of inquiry in case of disasters. He is senior policy advisor for the Italian Parliamentary Commission on Medical Errors and scientific director of the research program on Human factors and safety culture at the Italian Air Force.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Cases of myopia
2. Uncertainty and predictability in organizations
3. The mechanisms of organizational myopia
4. Anticipating risk: the problem of learning
5. Implications for organizational design
Epilogue.