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Best-managed crises can bring positive recognition and enhance an organization’s value; worst-managed crises can snuff its viability. Numerous books have been written on the topic, but many lack rigor: prescriptions are untested and quick fixes are based on elevating the readers’ fears. The International Handbook of Organizational Crisis Management reflects the latest understanding of this field from prominent scholars and practitioners around the globe. Pushing the boundaries of crisis management research and practice, this book offers new frameworks and findings that capture insights and guidance for researchers and executives. Today’s crises require no less. Novel and poorly understood technologies, globalization, changing political climates, and a shifting social landscape are just a few of the forces currently changing the ways in which organizations experience crises. The International Handbook of Organizational Crisis Management is a grounded cross-section of informed perspectives, a leading edge overview of the field of crisis management that will be useful to researchers and thoughtful practitioners.
A Passion for Imperfections: Revisiting Crisis Management
A Passion for Imperfections: Revisiting Crisis Management
Risk and crisis management has become paramount for many companies, while Western societies have been more and more sensitive to risks in every domain of their development. The advent of the risk society suggested by Ulrich Beck in the mid-1980s has now come true (Beck, 1992). This tendency toward the systematic reduction of risk exerts a strong pressure upon companies. The demand for “risk zero” intensively relayed by the media is still persistent even though most authorities, governments, and companies keep explaining to consumers, shareholders, employees, and more generally citizens that it remains a myth. This demand is all the more omnipresent even though, despite continuous efforts to manage risk through regulations ...
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