Key readings in crisis management : systems and structures for prevention and recovery / edited by Denis Smith and Dominic Elliott.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Crisis management -- The limits of safety -- Understanding industrial crises -- The structure of man-made organizational crisis -- Organisational pathology and industrial crisis -- Organizations and crisis -- Modelling the crisis management process -- The organizational and inter-organizational development of disasters -- Crisis prone versus crisis avoiding organisations -- Systems analysis of failures as a quality management tool -- Organizational learning from disasters -- Enacted sensemaking in crisis situations -- Human errors -- Storming and catastrophic systems failure -- The crisis of management -- Designs for crisis decision units -- Collective minds in organizations -- Football stadia disasters in the United Kingdom.