Electronic Resource
Bingley
:
Emerald
Management decision
33 (1995), S. 5-18
ISSN:
0025-1747
Source:
Emerald Fulltext Archive Database 1994-2005
Topics:
Economics
Notes:
Examines the nature of crisis-prone organizational beliefs andbehaviours and focuses particularly on disaster-proneness. Explains whynarrow views of reality and the organizational systems and behaviourspromoted by such views lead to crisis events. Contextualizes thisexamination and explanation using the 1988 Clapham Junction raildisaster as a case illustration, not as a criticism of the peopleinvolved in it but for the purposes of self-reflection and learningabout readers' own organizations. Concludes that many of us work inorganizations which are "crises waiting to happen".
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/EUM0000000003896
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