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Learning from failures : decision analysis of major disasters /

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Learning from Failures provides techniques to explore the root causes of specific disasters and how we can learn from them. It focuses on a number of well-known case studies, including: the sinking of the Titanic; the BP Texas City incident; the Chernobyl disaster; the NASA Space Shuttle Columbia ac...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Labib, Ashraf
Corporate Author: ScienceDirect (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Burlington : Elsevier Science, 2014.
Subjects:
Crisis management > Decision making.
Conflict management.
Crisis management.
Gestion de crise > Prise de décision.
Gestion des conflits.
Gestion de crise.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Industrial Management.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Management.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Management Science.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Organizational Behavior.
Conflict management
Crisis management
Crisis management > Decision making
Katastrophe
Krisenmanagement
Fehleranalyse
Lernen
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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Summary:Learning from Failures provides techniques to explore the root causes of specific disasters and how we can learn from them. It focuses on a number of well-known case studies, including: the sinking of the Titanic; the BP Texas City incident; the Chernobyl disaster; the NASA Space Shuttle Columbia accident; the Bhopal disaster; and the Concorde accident. This title is an ideal teaching aid, informed by the author's extensive teaching and practical experience and including a list of learning outcomes at the beginning of each chapter, detailed derivation, and many solved examples for mo.
Physical Description:1 online resource (334 pages)
ISBN:9780124167308
0124167306