Failure management : malfunctions of technologies, organizations, and society /
"Failures are a common phenomena in civilization. Things fail and society responds, often very slowly, sometimes inappropriately. What kinds of things go wrong? Why do they go wrong? How do people and organizations react to failures, and what are the best ways to react? William B. Rouse ta...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford, United Kingdom :
Oxford University Press,
2021.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | "Failures are a common phenomena in civilization. Things fail and society responds, often very slowly, sometimes inappropriately. What kinds of things go wrong? Why do they go wrong? How do people and organizations react to failures, and what are the best ways to react? William B. Rouse takes an analytic approach to these questions and addresses eighteen well-known cases of high-consequence failures. He employs a multi-level framework to integrate findings across the case studies, and in turn uses these to outline a conceptual approach to integrated failure management. Though diverse in their causes and outcomes, his analysis shows that the conceptual design of an integrated approach to failure management can encompass each of the case studies, all of which would have benefitted from the same conceptual decision support architecture. This enables cross-cutting system design principles and practices, assuring that failure management in every new domain and context need not start with a blank slate."-- |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xii, 213 pages) : illustrations (some color). |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographic references and index. References -- 3: Failures of Complex Systems -- Introduction -- Three Mile Island and Chernobyl -- Three Mile Island (1979) -- Chernobyl (1986) -- NASA Challenger and NASA Columbia -- NASA Challenger (1986) -- NASA Columbia (2003) -- Exxon Valdez and BP Deepwater Horizon -- Exxon Valdez (1989) -- BP Deepwater Horizon (2010) -- Comparison across Case Studies -- Anticipating Failures -- Hazard Analysis -- Failure Modes and Effects Analysis -- Systems Theoretic Process Analysis -- Safety Science -- Summary -- Higher-Order Consequences -- Conclusions -- References. |
| ISBN: | 9780192644350 0192644351 9780191914119 0191914118 |