Vol I: risk as a forensic resource - from chance to danger; from industrial society to the risk society - questions of survival, social structure and ecological enlightenment; managing crime risks - toward an insurance based model of social control; the psychology of risk perception; theories of risk perception - who fears what and why?; human factor failure and the comparative structure of jobs; management of radiation hazards in hospitals - plural rationalities in a single institution; explaining risk perception - an empirical evaluation of cultural theory; the organizational and inter-organizational developments of disasters; causes of disaster - sloppy management; communication factors in system failure, or why big planes crash and big businesses fail; understanding industrial crises; prosaic organizational failure; organizational escalation and exit - lessons from the Shoreham nuclear power plant; challenging the orthodoxy in risk management; Roger Boisjoly and the Challenger disaster - the ethical dimensions. (Part contents). Vol II: estimating engineering risk; measuring disaster trends part 1 - some observations on the Bradford fatality scale; measuring disaster trends part 2 - statistics and underlying processes; financial distress prediction models - a review of their usefulness; early warning signals management - a lesson from the Barings crisis; toward a systematic crisis management strategy - learning from the best examples in the US, Canada and France; the role of risk and return in information technology outsourcing decisions; close-coupled disasters - how oil majors are de-integrating and then managing contractors; autonomy, interdependence and social control - NASA and the space shuttle Challenger; complexity, tight-coupling and reliability - connecting normal accidents theory and high reliability theory; culture and communications - countering conspiracies in organizational risk management; identifying the cultural causes of disasters - an analysis of the Hillsborough Football Stadium disaster; technical analysis of the IIASA energy scenarios; from crisis prone to crisis prepared - a framework for crisis management; global environmental change - management under long-range uncertainty; operationalizing the theory of cultural complexity - a practial approach to risk perceptions and workplace behaviours. (Part contents)
