Risk Management

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 Sj¶berg. 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