Organizing for reliability : a guide for research and practice /

Increasingly, scholars view reliability--the ability to plan for and withstand disaster--as a social construction. However, there is a tendency to evoke this concept only in the face of catastrophes, such as the British Petroleum oil spill or the Space Shuttle Challenger explosion. This book frames...

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Other Authors: Ramanujam, Rangaraj (Editor), Roberts, Karlene H. (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Stanford, California : Stanford Business Books, an imprint of Stanford University Press, [2018]
Series:High reliability and crisis management.
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Online Access:CONNECT
Table of Contents:
  • Advancing organizational reliability / Karlene H. Roberts
  • The multiple meanings and models of reliability in organizational research / Rangaraj Ramanujam
  • Three lenses for understanding reliable, safe, and effective organizations : strategic design, political, and cultural approaches / John S. Carroll
  • Mindful organizing / Kathleen M. Sutcliffe
  • Reliability through resilience in organizational teams / Seth A. Kaplan & Mary J. Waller
  • How high reliability mitigates organizational goal conflicts / Peter M. Madsen & Vinit Desai
  • Organizational learning as reliability enhancement / Peter M. Madsen
  • Metaphors of communication in high reliability organizations / Jody L.S. Jahn, Karen K. Myers, & Linda L. Putnam
  • Extending reliability analysis across organizations, time, and scope / Paul R. Schulman & Emery Roe
  • Organizing for reliability in health care / Peter F. Martelli
  • Organizing for reliability in practice : searching for resilience in communities at risk / Louise K. Comfort
  • Applying reliability principles : lessons learned / W. Earl Carnes.