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The Principles and Practice of Crisis Management

The Case of Brent Spar

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  1. Meena Ahmed
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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Introduction

    • Meena Ahmed
    Pages 1-3

  3. ‘Crisis Management’ — A General Outline

    • Meena Ahmed
    Pages 4-60

  4. Brent Spar — Setting the Stage and the ‘Emerging’ and the ‘Immediate’ Phases of the Crisis

    • Meena Ahmed
    Pages 61-111

  5. Media Coverage and an Analysis of the Consultants’ Interpretation of the Case

    • Meena Ahmed
    Pages 112-186

  6. Crisis Management After the Crisis

    • Meena Ahmed
    Pages 187-235

  7. Conclusions

    • Meena Ahmed
    Pages 236-242

  8. Back Matter

    Pages 243-269
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About this book

This book examines the factors involved in the social mediation of risks, the social construction of reality, and professionals' attempts to re-design how social reality appears. It looks at single-issue politics, the mass media and how corporations can respond to threats to their political and ideological perspectives.

Reviews

'Ahmed offers a clear example of how the actions of highly sophisticated and reflexive actors - PR consultants, the media, corporate strategists, and high-profile campaign organizations - engaged in public controversies can be examined with the right balance of empathy and analytical distance.' - Dr Javier Lezaun, Centre for Analysis Risk and Regulation, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK

'This is a confident piece of work...Ahmed marshals a great range of interview and media content data to produce a complex, interesting and plausible account of events...I am unaware of a similar study, which moves across various registers; it is an original piece of work for which she should be congratulated' - Professor John Urry, Lancaster University, UK

About the author

MEENA AHMED obtained her PhD at the London School of Economics, University of London, UK, in 2005. She holds a MSc in Criminology (LSE) and a BA in Sociology (University of Reading). Originally from the Maldives, she now lives in London.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Principles and Practice of Crisis Management

  • Book Subtitle: The Case of Brent Spar

  • Authors: Meena Ahmed

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230627376

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London

  • eBook Packages: Palgrave Business & Management Collection, Business and Management (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2006

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-00686-7Published: 27 April 2006

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-28270-8Published: 27 April 2006

  • eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-62737-6Published: 27 April 2006

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: X, 269

  • Topics: Management, Organization

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