Organizing for Reliability: A Guide for Research and Practice

Increasingly, scholars view reliability-the ability to plan for and withstand disaster-as a social construction. However, there is a tendency to evoke this concept only in the face of catastrophes, such as the British Petroleum oil spill or the Space Shuttle Challenger explosion. This book frames reliability as a fundamental issue in the study of organizations-one that can also improve day-to-day operations.

Bringing together a diverse cast...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804793611
• ISBN13: 9780804793612
• Release Date: February 2018
• Publisher: Stanford Business Books
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.1"