This classic in organizational theory provides a succinct overview of the principal schools of thought as it presents a critical, sociopsychological, and historical orientation to the field of organizational analysis. Vividly written, with theories made concrete by specific, student-oriented examples, it takes a critical view toward organizations, ...
"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 to complexity, may help create new categories ...
A noted Yale sociologist examines how and why catastrophic accidents occur in high-tech industriesnuclear power, petrochemical, and aerospaceand argues that they are becoming nearly inevitable in our advanced technological society..
The seriousness, potential dimensions, and likely victims of the AIDS epidemic were known as early as 1981, yet the reaction of both public and private organizations was slow. Basing their analysis largely on the hardest hit city, New York, the authors deliver an indictment of governmental and private groups for failing to provide the necessary ...
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 technological forces in an all-efficient market, as some ...
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 new way of thinking about disaster preparedness. ...
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