Crisis, Catastrophe, and Disaster in Organizations
Managing Threats to Operations, Architecture, Brand, and Stakeholders
Authors: Tafoya, Dennis W.
Free Preview- Cases and material based on US and international organizations, leadership misconduct, and social movements demonstrate the range of effects spawned by crises, catastrophes, and disasters with particular emphasis on organizational, architectural and brand trauma
- Presents new approaches to the nature and make-up of crises, catastrophes, and disasters
- Explains how a crisis can morph into a catastrophe and a catastrophe into a disaster to maximize their sustainable effects on organizations
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- About this book
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This book explores how and why an event is a precursor to the emergence of a crisis and how a given crisis affects an organization and its stakeholders. Using existing systems theory blended with innovative use of wave, epidemiological, immunological and psycho-social theories, the author discusses ways to understand the effects of different types of crises while showing how to document and/or quantitatively measure those effects. The book offers new models illustrating how events trigger crises and how they subsequently morph into catastrophes and disasters. Using theories and tools tested in organizational settings to identify contributors to a traumatic event, this book makes a valuable contribution to organizational and crisis management literature.
- About the authors
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Dennis W. Tafoya (PhD, the University of Michigan, MS, the University of Pennsylvania) has more than 30 years of academic and business experience across a variety of fields. He is President of CompCite Inc., an international research and development firm that focuses on factors affecting individual, group and organizational performance. He has authored patents, numerous articles and five books.
- Table of contents (8 chapters)
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An Introduction to Giving (and Receiving) Advice
Pages 1-30
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Events and Emerging Turmoil, Disorder, and Confusion
Pages 31-63
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Tracking Turmoil, Disorder, and Confusion
Pages 65-110
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Mapping the Effects of Crises, Catastrophes, and Disasters, and Sustainability
Pages 111-157
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Emerging Turmoil, Disorder, Trauma, and Confusion
Pages 159-191
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Crisis, Catastrophe, and Disaster in Organizations
- Book Subtitle
- Managing Threats to Operations, Architecture, Brand, and Stakeholders
- Authors
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- Dennis W. Tafoya
- Copyright
- 2020
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Copyright Holder
- The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Switzerland AG
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-030-37074-9
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-030-37074-9
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-3-030-37073-2
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XVI, 286
- Number of Illustrations
- 16 b/w illustrations
- Topics
