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The Crisis-Prone Society offers preventative measures that can be taken by business professionals and scholars alike to alleviate the growing potential for crises today. These measures are distilled by close analysis of our recent social history of disasters.
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Keywords
- Crisis management
- societal crises
- large-scale industrial accidents
- risk management
- crisis communication
- emergency preparedness
- disaster management
- stakeholders
- assumptions
- Crisis assumptions
- Crisis beliefs
- Ethics of technology
- Organizational crisis
- Inevitable crises
- Phantasy
- financial crises
- political crises
- National insecurity
- National security assumptions
- Global warming
- business
- management
- organization
- organizations
- technology
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Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Author Ian I. Mitroff: Ian I. Mitroff is Senior Research Associate at the Center for Catastrophic Risk Management at the Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley, USA; Professor Emeritus of the University of Southern California, USA; and President of Mitroff Crisis Management.
Author Can M. Alpaslan: Can M. Alpaslan is Professor in the Department of Management at California State University, Northridge, USA.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Crisis-Prone Society: A Brief Guide to Managing the Beliefs that Drive Risk in Business
Authors: Ian I Mitroff, Can M. Alpaslan
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137454836
Publisher: Palgrave Pivot New York
eBook Packages: Palgrave Business & Management Collection, Business and Management (R0)
Copyright Information: The Author(s) 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-45561-1Published: 08 July 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-45483-6Published: 08 July 2014
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 89
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: International Relations, Organizational Studies, Economic Sociology, Business and Management, general, Management, Business Ethics, Business Strategy/Leadership