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Normal accidents. Living with high-risk technologies

James E. Groves
- 01 Jan 1990 - 
- Vol. 31, Iss: 10, pp 1187
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A place-based model for understanding community resilience to natural disasters

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Loosely Coupled Systems: A Reconceptualization

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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

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.