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Failure Management: Malfunctions of Technologies, Organizations, and Society - Rouse, William B.
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Failures are a common phenomena in civilization. Things fail and society responds, often very slowly, sometimes inappropriately. What kinds of things go wrong? Why do they go wrong? How do people and organizations react to failures, and what are the best ways to react? William B. Rouse takes an analytic approach to these questions and addresses eighteen well-known cases of high-consequence failures. He employs a multi-level framework to integrate findings across the case studies, and in turn uses these to outline a ...

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Failure Management: Malfunctions of Technologies, Organizations, and Society 2021, Oxford University Press, Oxford

ISBN-13: 9780198870999

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