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Normal accidents. Living with high-risk technologies
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Managing Legitimacy: Strategic and Institutional Approaches
TL;DR: This article synthesize the large but diverse literature on organizational legitimacy, highlighting similarities and disparities among the leading strategic and institutional approaches, and identify three primary forms of legitimacy: pragmatic, based on audience self-interest; moral, based upon normative approval; and cognitive, according to comprehensibility and taken-for-grantedness.
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A place-based model for understanding community resilience to natural disasters
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TL;DR: In this article, the disaster resilience of place (DROP) model is proposed to improve comparative assessments of disaster resilience at the local or community level, and a candidate set of variables for implementing the model are also presented as a first step towards its implementation.
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Loosely Coupled Systems: A Reconceptualization
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present five recurring voices that focus separately on causation, typology, effects, compensations, and outcomes of loose coupling, and suggest more precise and more productive uses of the concept.
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Judgment in Managerial Decision Making
TL;DR: This chapter discusses the role of motivation, affect, and awareness in decision making and the role that these factors play in the development of good decision-making habits.
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Managing Disruption Risks in Supply Chains
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors provide a conceptual framework that reflects the joint activities of risk assessment and risk mitigation that are fundamental to disruption risk management in supply chains, and consider empirical results from a rich data set covering the period 1995-2000 on accidents in the U. S. Chemical Industry.
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Managing Legitimacy: Strategic and Institutional Approaches
TL;DR: This article synthesize the large but diverse literature on organizational legitimacy, highlighting similarities and disparities among the leading strategic and institutional approaches, and identify three primary forms of legitimacy: pragmatic, based on audience self-interest; moral, based upon normative approval; and cognitive, according to comprehensibility and taken-for-grantedness.
Journal ArticleDOI
Loosely Coupled Systems: A Reconceptualization
J. Douglas Orton,Karl E. Weick +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present five recurring voices that focus separately on causation, typology, effects, compensations, and outcomes of loose coupling, and suggest more precise and more productive uses of the concept.
Book
Judgment in Managerial Decision Making
TL;DR: This chapter discusses the role of motivation, affect, and awareness in decision making and the role that these factors play in the development of good decision-making habits.
Journal ArticleDOI
Managing Disruption Risks in Supply Chains
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors provide a conceptual framework that reflects the joint activities of risk assessment and risk mitigation that are fundamental to disruption risk management in supply chains, and consider empirical results from a rich data set covering the period 1995-2000 on accidents in the U. S. Chemical Industry.
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Some Unintended Consequences of Information Technology in Health Care: The Nature of Patient Care Information System-related Errors
TL;DR: With a heightened awareness of these issues, informaticians can educate, design systems, implement, and conduct research in such a way that they might be able to avoid the unintended consequences of these subtle silent errors.