books by Charles Perrow
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Charles Perrow
Organizing America: Wealth, Power, and the Origins of Corporate Capitalism
Charles Perrow
Princeton University Press
, 2002
Highly Recommended!
You may never have given a second thought to the very existence of the Fortune 500, but author and academic Charles Perrow has. In this eye-opening sociological account, he argues that the huge organizations that dominate today's business world in the United States ...
The Next Catastrophe: Reducing Our Vulnerabilities to Natural, Industrial, and Terrorist Disasters
Charles Perrow
Princeton University Press
, 2007
Superb, Crystal-Clear, Speaks Truth to Power
Amazon destroyed this review in error and I failed to keep a file copy. This is a reconstructed review--not nearly as good as the original--nothing I can do about it. ----------reconstructed review------------- This book is a learned essay, and I immediately ...
Complex Organizations: A Critical Essay
Charles Perrow
McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages
, 1986
A "Must Read" for Public Administration Students
This is an extremely beneficial reading for those who have a general knowledge base of Organizational Theory. Readers who do not have any organizational theory background may consider the book esoteric. Charles Perrow's critical analysis of organizational theory ...
Normal Accidents: Living with High-Risk Technologies
Charles Perrow
Princeton University Press
, 1999
This book will change the way you think.
This book will change the way you think. It's as simple as that. Really eye-opening and persuasive arguments and examples as to why the absence of accidents per se is not an adequate indicator of a system's safety. Near-accidents are a better metric. Fascinating!
Unmasking Administrative Evil
Guy B. Adams
,
Danny L. Balfour
M.E. Sharpe
, 2004
The Dangers of Devil Theory
Humankinds's historic efforts to deal with the problem of evil are exemplified by the understandings of evil provided by psychology, as well as by most theologies and ideologies. All of these resort to some variant of Devil Theory: that evil outcomes are the products ...
The AIDS Disaster: The Failure of Organizations in New York and the Nation (Yale Fastback Series)
Mauro F. Guillen
, Charles Perrow
Yale University Press
, 1990
Well-documented indictment of governmental and private groups for failing to provide the necessary education and care in response to this disaster. Social hostility to urban poor, ideological preoocupations of Reagan era, and homophobia of lawmakers helped foster epidemic.
Unmasking Administrative Evil
Guy B./ Balfour, Danny L./ Perrow, Charles (FRW) Adams
M E Sharpe Inc
, 2004
Normale Katastrophen. Die unvermeidbaren Risiken der Großtechnik.
Charles Perrow
Campus Fachbuch
, 1989
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