Risk Management

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ISBN: 9781855218499 | 1855218496
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 11/1/2000

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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.

Acknowledgements

Series Preface

xiii

Introduction

PART I THEORIES AND BACKGROUND

`Risk as a Forensic Resource: From ``Chance'' to ``Danger''', Doedalus, 119, pp. 1-16

(16)

Mary Douglas

`From Industrial Society to the Risk Society: Questions of Survival, Social Structure and Ecological Enlightenment', Theory, Culture and Society, 9, pp. 97-123

(28)

Ulrich Beck

`Managing Crime Risks: Toward an Insurance Based Model of Social Control', Research in Law, Deviance and Social Control, 8, pp. 151-72

(22)

Nancy Reichman

`The Psychology of Risk Perception', RISK-Analysis, Perception, Management, Report of a Royal Society Study Group: London, The Royal Society, Section 5.3, pp. 98-111

(14)

Nick Pidgeon

`Theories of Risk Perception: Who Fears What and Why?', Daedalus, 119, pp. 41-60

(20)

Aaron Wildavsky

Karl Dake

`Human Factor Failure and the Comparative Structure of Jobs,' Disaster Prevention and Management, 6, pp. 343-48

101

(6)

Gerald Mars

`Management of Radiation Hazards in Hospitals: Plural Rationalities in a Single Institution', Social Studies of Science, 16, pp. 573-91

107

(20)

Steve Rayner

`Explaining Risk Perception: An Empirical Evaluation of Cultural Theory', Risk Decision and Policy, 2, pp. 113-30

127

(18)

Lennart Sjoberg

PART II THEORIES AND CASES

`The Organizational and Interorganizational Development of Disasters', Administrative Science Quarterly, 21, pp. 378-97

145

(20)

Barry A. Turner

`Causes of Disaster: Sloppy Management', British Journal of Management, 5, pp. 215-19

165

(6)

Barry A. Turner

`Communication Factors in System Failure or Why Big Planes Crash and Big Businesses Fail', Disaster Prevention and Management, 2, pp. 41-50

171

(10)

David T.H. Weir

`Understanding Industrial Crises', Journal of Management Studies, 25, pp. 285-303

181

(20)

Paul Shrivastava

Ian I. Mitroff

Danny Miller

Anil Miglani

`Prosaic Organizational Failure', American Behavioral Scientist, 39, pp. 1040-56

201

(18)

Lee Clarke

Charles Perrow

`Organizational Escalation and Exit; Lessons from the Shoreham Nuclear Power Plant'. Academy of Management Journal, 36, pp. 701-32

219

(32)

Jerry Ross

Barry M. Staw

`Challenging the Orthodoxy in Risk Management', Safety Science, 22, pp. 245-62

251

(18)

Clive Smallman

`Roger Boisjoly and the Challenger Disaster: The Ethical Dimensions', Journal of Business Ethics, 8, pp. 217-30

269

(14)

Russell P. Boisjoly

Ellen Foster Curtis

Eugene Mellican

`Industrial Sabotage: Motives and Meanigns,' in Stanley Cohen (ed.), Images of Deviance, Harmondswoth: Penguin Books, pp. 219-45

283

(28)

Laurie Taylor

Paul Walton

`Crime and Punishment in the Factory: The Function of Deviancy in Maintaining the Social System', American Sociological Review, 28, pp. 588-98

311

(12)

Joseph Bensman

Israel Gerver

`A Sociological Analysis of Dud Behavior in the United States Army', in Clifton D. Bryant (ed.), Deviant Behaviour: Occupational and Organizational Bases, Chicago: Rand McNally, pp. 27-43

323

(18)

H. Eugene Hodges

`Sioux City, Iowa, USA, 19 July 1989', The Black Box: Cockpit Voice Recorder Accounts of In-flight Accidents, London: HarperCollins, pp. 152-76

341

(26)

Malcolm MacPherson

PART III POLICIES AND POLITICS

`Endemic and Planned Corruption in a Monarchical Regime', World Politics, 25, pp. 533-55

367

(24)

John Waterbury

`Control Over Bureaucracy: Cultural Theory and Institutional Variety', Journal of Public Policy, 15, pp. 207-30

391

(24)

Christopher Hood

`Major Chemical Accidents in Industralizing Countries: The Socio-Political Amplification of Risk', Risk Analysis, 16, pp. 19-29

415

(12)

Marcelo Firpo de Souza Porto

Carlos Machado de Freitas

`Rumors and Crises: A Case Study in the Banking Industry', Industrial & Environmental Crisis Quarterly, 7, pp. 231-51

427

(22)

Christophe Roux-Dufort

Thierry C. Pauchant

`Time, Glenda, Please', The Observer, 23 December 1996, p. 1

449

(2)

John Dodd

`Risk Communication and the Social Amplification of Risk: Theory, Evidence and Policy Implications', Risk Decision and Policy, 4, pp. 1-15

451

(16)

Nick Pidgeon

`TSI and Government Intervention in the Management of Risk-Taking in the Banking Industry', Cyprus International Journal of Management, 1, pp. 27-47

467

(22)

David Marshall

`Risk and Governance Part I: The Discourses of Climate Change', Government and Opposition, 33, pp. 139-66

489

(28)

Michael Thompson

Steve Rayner

`Risk and Governance Part II: Policy in a Complex and Plurally Perceived World', Government and Opposition, 33, pp. 330-54

517

(26)

Michael Thompson

Steve Rayner

Steven Ney

Name Index

543

(16)

The Royal Society (1992), `Estimating Engineering Risk', RISK---Analysis, Perception, Management, Report of a Royal Society Study Group, London: The Royal Society, pp. 13-34

(22)

`Measuring Disaster Trends Part One: Some Observations on the Bradford Fatality Scale', Disaster Management, 3, pp. 144-48

(6)

T. Horlick-Jones

G. Peters

`Measuring Disaster Trends Part Two: Statistics and Underlying Processes', Disaster Management, 4, pp. 41-45

(6)

T. Horlick-Jones

J. Fortune

G. Peters

`Financial Distress Prediction Models: A Review of Their Usefulness', British Journal of Management, 2, pp. 89-102

(14)

Kevin Keasey

Robert Watson

`Early-Warning-Signals Management: A Lesson from the Barings Crisis', Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management, 6, pp. 1-22

(22)

Zachary Sheaffer

Bill Richardson

Zehava Rosenblatt

`Toward a Systemic Crisis Management Strategy: Learning from the Best Examples in the US, Canada and France', Industrial Crisis Quarterly, 5, pp. 209-32

(24)

Thierry C. Pauchant

Ian I. Mitroff

Patrick Lagadec

`The Role of Risk and Return in Information Technology Outsourcing Decisions', Journal of Information Technology, 10, pp. 239-47

(10)

Jaak Jurison

`Close-Coupled Disasters How Oil Majors are De-integrating and then Managing Contractors', Proceedings, 3rd International Conference Managing Innovative Manufacturing, pp. 183-91

105

(10)

Neil Ritson

`Autonomy, Interdependence, and Social Control: NASA and the Space Shuttle Challenger', Administrative Science Quarterly, 35, pp. 225-57

115

(34)

Diane Vaughan

`Complexity, Tight-Coupling and Reliability: Connecting Normal Accidents Theory and High Reliability Theory', Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management, 5, pp. 15-23

149

(10)

Jos A. Rijpma

`Culture and Communications: Countering Conspiracies in Organisational Risk Management', New Avenues in Crisis Management, pp. 147-55

159

(10)

Clive Smallman

D.T.H. Weir

`Identifying the Cultural Causes of Disasters: An Analysis of the Hillsborough Football Stadium Disaster', Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management, 1, pp. 27-35

169

(10)

William Richardson

`Technical Analysis of IIASA Energy Scenarios', Nature, 312, pp. 691-95

179

(6)

Bill Keepin

Brian Wynne

`From Crisis Prone to Crisis Prepared: A Framework for Crisis Management', Academy of Management Executive, 7, pp. 48-59

185

(12)

Christine M. Pearson

Ian I. Mitroff

`Global Environmental Change: Management Under Long-range Uncertainty', Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management, 2, pp. 1-9

197

(10)

Peter Nijkamp

`Operationalising the Theory of Cultural Complexity: A Practical Approach to Risk Perceptions and Workplace Behaviours', International Journal of Risk, Security and Crime Prevention, 2, pp. 115-29

207

(16)

Gerald Mars

Steve Frosdick

`Managing Risk in Advanced Manufacturing Technology', California Management Review, 34, pp. 112-26

223

(16)

Michael P. Hottenstein

James. W. Dean Jr.

`The Culture of High Reliability: Quantitative and Qualitative Assessment Aboard Nuclear-Powered Aircraft Carriers', The Journal of High Technology Management Research, 5, pp. 141-61

239

(22)

Karlene H. Roberts

Denise M. Rousseau

Todd R. La Porte

`Company Failure or Company Health?-Techniques for Measuring Company Health', Long Range Planning, 21, pp. 70-77

261

(8)

John Robertson

Roger W. Mills

`Corporate Risk Management: A New Nightmare in the Boardroom', The Economist, 10 February, pp. 3-6, 9-10, 15-22

269

(14)

Matthew Bishop

```Safety Cultures'' in British Stadia and Sporting Venues: Understanding Cross-organizational Collaboration for Managing Public Safety in British Sports Grounds', Disaster Prevention and Management, 4, pp. 13-21

283

(10)

Steve Frosdick

`The Human Side of the Banks' Credit Management of Small Firms---A Cognitive Approach to Corporate Evaluation', Conference Proceedings of the 3rd International Stockholm Seminar on Risk Behaviour and Risk Management, Stockholm, Sweden, pp. 115-54

293

(40)

Katarina Svensson Kling

Michael J. Driver

Rikard Larsson

`Management of Bank Loans to Small Firms in a Market with Asymmetric Information---An Integrated Concept', Scandinavian Institute for Research in Entrepreneurship (SIRE), Working Paper 1995: 2, pp. ii, 1-23

333

(24)

Katarina Svensson

Per-Ola Ulvenblad

`Prevention is Better than Cure' in `Crisis Management: How to Turn a Crisis into an Opportunity', Hutchinson Business, pp. 143-53

357

(12)

Michael Regester

`The Man-Machine Interface and its Impact on Shipping Safety', Disaster Prevention and Management, 6, pp. 107-17

369

(12)

Alexander Goulielmos

Ernestos Tzannatos

`Organization and the Management of Safety Risks in the Chemical Process Industry', Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management, 3, pp. 165-80

381

(16)

Erik H. Bax

`The Development of a Safety Culture', Chemistry and Industry, 1, pp. 241-43

397

(4)

Barry A. Turner

`The Limits to Safety? Culture, Politics, Learning and Man-Made Disasters', Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management, 5, pp. 1-14

401

(14)

Nick Pidgeon

`Redefining the Issues of Risk and Public Acceptance. The Social Viability of Technology', Futures, 15, pp. 13-32

415

(20)

Brian Wynne

`The Schematic Report Analysis Diagram: A Simple Aid to Learning from Large-scale Failures', International CIS Journal, 1, pp. 12-23

435

(12)

B. Toft

B.A. Turner

`Decision Making Under Contradictory Certainties: How to Save the Himalayas When You Can't Find Out What's Wrong With Them', Journal of Applied Systems Analysis, 12, pp. 3-34

447

(32)

Michael Thompson

Michael Warburton

`Organizations and Systematic Distortion of Information', Journal of Professional Issues in Engineering, 113, pp. 360-70

479

(12)

David A. Bella

`Safety Culture, Corporate Culture, Organizational Transformation and the Commitment to Safety', Disaster Prevention and Management, 3, pp. 49-58

491

(10)

Heather Hopfl

`The Failure of Hindsight', Disaster Prevention and Management, 1, pp. 48-60

501

(14)

B. Toft

`Risk, Uncertainty and Nuclear Power', Social Science Information, 18, pp. 371-400

515

(30)

Jon Elster

`Crisis Management and Environmentalism: A Natural Fit', California Management Review, 36, pp. 101-13

545

(14)

Ian I. Mitroff

Name Index

559

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