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.

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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