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Normal Accidents
Living with High Risk Technologies - Updated Edition
Häftad, 1999
479 kr
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Normal Accidents analyzes the social side of technological risk. Charles Perrow argues that the conventional engineering approach to ensuring safety--building in more warnings and safeguards--fails because systems complexity makes failures inevitable. He asserts that typical precautions, by adding …
Normal Accidents
Living with High Risk Technologies - Updated Edition
E-bok, 2011
500 kr
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Normal Accidents analyzes the social side of technological risk. Charles Perrow argues that the conventional engineering approach to ensuring safety--building in more warnings and safeguards--fails because systems complexity makes failures inevitable. He asserts that typical precautions, by adding …
AIDS Disaster
The Failure of Organizations in New York and the Nation
Av Mauro F. Guillén, Charles Perrow
Häftad, 1991
431 kr
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The seriousness, potential dimensions, and likely victims of the AIDS epidemic were known as early as 1981, yet the reaction of public and private organizations was shockingly slow and feeble and is even now woefully inadequate. Basing their analysis largely on the hardest hit city, New York, …
Organizing America
Wealth, Power, and the Origins of Corporate Capitalism
Häftad, 2005
953 kr
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American society today is shaped not nearly as much by vast open spaces as it is by vast, bureaucratic organizations. Over half the working population toils away at enterprises with 500 or more employees--up from zero percent in 1800. Is this institutional immensity the logical outcome of …
Next Catastrophe
Reducing Our Vulnerabilities to Natural, Industrial, and Terrorist Disasters
Häftad, 2011
238 kr
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Charles Perrow is famous worldwide for his ideas about normal accidents, the notion that multiple and unexpected failures--catastrophes waiting to happen--are built into our society's complex systems. In The Next Catastrophe, he offers crucial insights into how to make us safer, proposing a bold …
Organizing America
Wealth, Power, and the Origins of Corporate Capitalism
E-bok, 2009
670 kr
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American society today is shaped not nearly as much by vast open spaces as it is by vast, bureaucratic organizations. Over half the working population toils away at enterprises with 500 or more employees--up from zero percent in 1800. Is this institutional immensity the logical outcome of …
Next Catastrophe
Reducing Our Vulnerabilities to Natural, Industrial, and Terrorist Disasters
E-bok, 2011
305 kr
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Charles Perrow is famous worldwide for his ideas about normal accidents, the notion that multiple and unexpected failures--catastrophes waiting to happen--are built into our society''s complex systems. In The Next Catastrophe , he offers crucial insights into how to make us safer, proposing a bold …
