Risk management. Theories, cases, policies and politics / Volume I, (2020)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Gerald Mars, David T.H. Weir.
• Authors: Mars, Gerald
• Editors: Mars, Gerald; Weir, David, 1939-
• Contents: Acknowledgements Series Preface Introduction Part I: Theories and Background Risk as a Forensic Resource: From 'Chance' to 'Danger', Mary Douglas 2. From Industrial Society to the Risk Society: Questions of Survival, Social Structure and Ecological Enlightenment, Ulrich Beck 3. Managing Crime Risks: Toward an Insurance Based Model of Social Control, Nancy Reichman 4. The Psychology of Risk Perception, Nick Pidgeon 5. Theories of Risk Perception: Who Fears What and Why?, Aaron Wildavsky and Karl Drake 6. Human Factor Failure and the Comparative Structure of Jobs, Gerald Mars 7. Management of Radiation Hazards and Hospitals: Plural Rationalities in a Single Institution, Steve Rayner 8. Explaining Risk Perception: An Empirical Evaluation of Cultural Theory, Lennart Sjoberg Part II: Theories and Cases 9. The Organizational and Interorganizational Development of Disasters, Barry A. Turner 10. Causes of Disaster: Sloppy Management, Barry A. Turner ; 11. Communications Factors in System Failure or Why Big Planes Crash and Big Businesses Fail, David T.H. Weir 12. Understanding Industrial Crises, Paul Shrivastava, Ian I. Mitroff, Danny Miller, and Anil Miglani 13. Prosaic Organizational Failure, Lee Clarke and Charles Perrow 14. Organizational Escalation and Exit: Lessons from the Shoreham Nuclear Power Plant, Jerry Ross and Barry M. Staw 15. Challenging the Orthodoxy in Risk Management, Clive Smallman ; 16. Roger Boisjoly and the Challenger Disaster: The Ethical Dimensions, Roger Boisjoly, Ellen Foster Curtis and Eugene Mellican 17. Industrial Sabotage: Motives and Meanings, Laurie Taylor and Paul Walton 18. Crime and Punishment in the Factory: The Function of Deviancy in Maintaining the Social System, Joseph Bensman and Israel Gerver 19. A Sociological Analysis of Dud Behaviour in the United States Army, H. Eugene Hodges 20. Sioux City, Iowa USA, 19th July 1989, Malcolm MacPherson Part 3: Policies and Politics 21. Endemic and Planned Corruption in a Monarchical Regime, John Waterbury 22. Control Over Bureaucracy: Cultural Theory and Institutional Variety, Christopher Hood 23. Major Chemical Accidents in Industrializing Countries: The Socio-Political Amplification of Risk, Marcello Firpo de Souza Porto and Carlos Machado de Freitas 24. Rumours and Crises: A Case Study of the Banking Industry, Christophe Roux-Dufort and Thierry C. Pauchant 25. Time, Glenda, Please, John Dodd 26. Risk Communication and the Social Amplification of Risk; Theory, Evidence and Policy Implications, Nick Pidgeon 27. TSI and Government Intervention in the Management of Risk-Taking in the Banking Industry, David Marshall 28. Risk and Governance Part I: The Discourses of Climate Change, Michael Thompson, Steve Rayner and Steven Ney 29. Risk and Governance Part II: Policy in a Complex and Plurally Perceived World, Michael Thompson, Steve Rayner and Steven Ney Index.
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: London : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2020
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 658.155; Risk management; Risk management -- Case studies
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781000008357
• Related ISBNs: 9781000001518; 9781000014877
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