Normal accidents / Charles PERROW / Princeton University Press (1999)

Titre : Normal accidents : living with high-risk technologies ; with a new afterword and a postscript on the Y2K problem Type de document : Livre Auteurs : Charles PERROW, Auteur Editeur : Princeton University Press Année de publication : 1999 Importance : X; 451 p. ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-0-691-00412-9 Prix : 20 EUR Langues : Anglais (eng) Mots-clés : Management RISQUE TECHNOLOGIQUE ; MANAGEMENT DU RISQUE Résumé : 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 of accidents. (At Chernobyl, tests of a new safety system helped produce the meltdown and subsequent fire.) By recognizing two dimensions of risk--complex versus linear interactions, and tight versus loose coupling--this book provides a powerful framework for analyzing risks and the organizations that insist we run them. The first edition fulfilled one reviewer's prediction that it "may mark the beginning of accident research." In the new afterword to this edition Perrow reviews the extensive work on the major accidents of the last fifteen years, including Bhopal, Chernobyl, and the Challenger disaster. The new postscript probes what the author considers to be the "quintessential 'Normal Accident'" of our time: the Y2K computer problem. Permalink : https://cataloguelibrary.neoma-bs.fr/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=153982

Complex organizations / Charles PERROW / New York ; : MCGRAW-HILL (1986)

Titre : Complex organizations : a critical essay Type de document : Livre Auteurs : Charles PERROW, Auteur Mention d'édition : 3rd ed. Editeur : New York ; : MCGRAW-HILL Année de publication : 1986 Importance : x, 307 p. ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-0-07-554799-0 Note générale : Bibliogr. p.279-295. Index. Langues : Anglais (eng) Mots-clés : Management ORGANISATION ; SOCIOLOGIE DES ORGANISATIONS Résumé : 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, analyzing their impact on individuals, groups, and society as a whole. New chapters on economic theories of organization and the conditional power theory are among the features of this revised edition. Permalink : https://cataloguelibrary.neoma-bs.fr/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=156777

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