Key Readings in Crisis Management Systems and Structures for Prevention and Recovery

Name: Key Readings in Crisis Management Systems and Structures for Prevention and Recovery
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ISBN: 9780415315210

ISBN-10: 0415315212

ISBN-13: 9780415315210

Edition: 2004

Authors: Denis Smith, Dominic Elliott

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One of the first books of its kind in the subject area, this text brings together the seminal papers in the area of crisis management and organizational theory along with the analysis of the leading names of the field. Covering the subject area from both a theoretical and practical perspective, it features chapters by Karl Weick, Charles Perrow and many other luminaries of the field. Divided into 4 main sections, the book considers crisis management from a theoretical, systematic and practical perspective it also looks at the approaches and limitations of crisis management processes and its cultural and psychological dynamics. Featuring expert editorial commentary of all the key readings,…

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List price: $75.95
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 8/18/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 436
Size: 6.81" wide x 9.65" long x 0.98" tall
Weight: 1.936
Language: English

DENIS SMITH has had a distinguished career as a professor of Canadian politics, university administrator, and author. He was the founding editor of the <i Journal of Canadian Studies</i from 1966 to 1975 and editor of the <i Canadian Forum</i from 1975 to 1979. His books include a biography of Liberal cabinet minister Walter Gordon, <i Gentle Patriot</i and of Conservative prime minister John Diefenbaker in <i Rogue Tory</i , both of which won the UBC Medal for Canadian Biography.Canadian Author



Dedication


Acknowledgements



Crisis Management - Practice in Search of a Paradigm




Understanding crisis management



The Limits of Safety: The Enhancement of a Theory of Accidents




Understanding Industrial Crises




The Structure of Man-Made Organizational Crises: Conceptual and Empirical Issues in the Development of a General Theory of Crisis Management




Organizational Pathology and Industrial Crisis




Organizations and Crisis: The emergence of a Research Paradigm




Modelling the crisis management process



Modelling the Crisis Management Process: Approaches and Limitations




The Organizational and Interorganizational Development of Disasters




Crisis Prone Versus Crisis Avoiding Organizations: is Your Company's Culture its Own Worst Enemy in Creating Crises?




Beyond Contingency Planning: Towards a Model of Crisis Management




Some Characteristics of One Type of High Reliability Organization




Systems Analysis of Failures as a Quality Management Tool




Organizational Learning from Disasters




Enacted Sensemaking in Crisis Situations




Modeling the Crisis Management Process




The crisis of management: cultural and psychological dynamics of risk and crisis management



Human Errors: A Taxonomy for Describing Human Malfunction in Industrial Installations




The Contribution of Latent Human Failures to the Breakdown of Complex Systems




The Collapse of Sensemaking in Organizations: The Mann Gulch Disaster




Storming and Catastrophic System Failures




The Crisis of Management: Managing Ahead of the Curve




Crisis management in practice



Designs for Crisis Decision Units




Collective Minds in Organizations: Heedful Interrelating on Flight Decks




Football Stadia Disasters in the United Kingdom: Learning from Tragedy?




Crisis Management into Practice



Conclusions



Responding to the Demands of Crises: Issues Around Future Developments in Theory and Practice



Index