Key readings in crisis management : systems and structures for prevention and recovery / edited by Denis Smith and Dominic Elliott.

Crisis management : practice in search of a paradigm -- The limits of safety : the enhancement of a theory of accidents -- Understanding industrial crises -- The structure of man-made organizational crisis : conceptual and empirical issues in the development of a general theory of crisis management -- Organizational pathology and industrial crisis -- Organizations and crisis : the emergence of a research paradigm -- Modelling the crisis management process : approaches and limitations -- The organizational and interorganizational development of disasters -- Crisis prone versus crisis avoiding organisations : is your company's culture its own worst enemy in creating crisis? -- Beyond contingency planning : towards a model of crisis management -- Some characteristics of one type of high reliability organization -- Systems analysis of failures as a quality management tool -- Organizational learning from disasters -- Enacted sensemaking in crisis situations -- Modeling the crisis management process -- Human errors : a taxonomy for describing human malfunciton in industrial installations -- The contribution of latent human failures to the breakdown of complex systems -- The collapse of sensemaking in organizations : the Mann Gulch disaster -- Storming and.

catastrophic system failures -- The crisis of management : managing ahead of the curve -- Designs for crisis decision units -- Collective minds in organizations : heedful interrelating on flight decks -- Football stadia disasters in the United Kingdom : learning from tragedy? -- Crisis management into practice -- Responding to the demands of crisis : issues around future developments in theory and practice.