Further Reading



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Bogner, M.S. (1994) (Ed.) Human Error in Medicine, Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum

Chiles, J.R. (2001) Inviting Disaster: Lessons from the Edge of Technology. New York: Harper Business.

Clarke, L. (1999) Mission Improbable: Using Fantasy Documents to Tame Disaster. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Davidson, A. (1990) In the Wake of the Exxon Valdez. San Francisco: Sierra Club.

Keeble, J. (1991) Out of the channel: The Exxon Valdez oil spill in Prince William Sound. New York: Harper Collins.

Kohn, L. Corrigan, J.M., and Donaldson, M.S. (1999) To Err is Human: Building a Safer Health Care System. Washington, D.C: National Academy Press.

Lagadec, P. (1993) Preventing Chaos in a Crisis. London: McGraw-Hill International.

Leeson, N. (1996) Rogue Trader. Boston: Little Brown.

Lowenstein, R. (2000) When Genius Failed: The Rise and Fall of Long Term Capital Management. New York: Random House Trade Publishing.

Maclean, J.N. (1999) Fire on the Mountain: The True Story of the South Canyon Fire. New York: Washington Square Press.

Medvedev, Z. (1990) The Legacy of Chernobyl. New York: W.W. Norton.

Perrow, C. 1984. Normal Accidents: Living with High Risk Technologies. New York: Basic Books. (Princeton University Press, 1999)

Read, P.P. Ablaze: The Story of the Heroes and Victims of Chernobyl. New York: Random House, 1993.

Reason, J. (1997) Managing the Risks of Organizational Accidents. Aldershot, England: Ashgate

Rees, J.V. 1994. Hostages of Each Other. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Roberts, K.H. and Bea R. (2001)When systems fail. Organizational Dynamics. 29, 179-191.

Roberts, K.H., and Bea R. (2001) Must accidents happen? Academy of Management Executive, 15 (August), 70-79..

Rochlin, G.I. (1997) Trapped in the Net: The Unanticipated Consequences of Computerization. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.

Sagan, S. (1993) The Limits of Safety: Organizations, Accidents, and Nuclear Weapons. Princeton, N.J: Princeton University Press.

Snook, S. (2000) Friendly Fire. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.

Sun, T. (1983) The Art of War. Clavell, J. (Ed) Random House: New York.

Turner, B.M. (1978) Man Made Disasters. London: Wykeham Press.

Vaughan, D. (1996) The Challenger Launch Decision: Risky Technology, Culture, and Deviance at NASA. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.



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