Organizational Myopia: Problems of Rationality and Foresight in Organizations
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| Rating | : | 4.58 (826 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1107447216 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 270 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2018-01-03 |
| Language | : | English |
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Powell, Stanford University" Organizational Myopia is an overwhelming success, likely to be of significant interest to researchers, practitioners, students, and experts alike. Barton Hepburn Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs, Princeton University"Drawing us in with unsettling tales of the dark side of organizations, Catino leads us through the diversity of things that go wrong to reveal the common patterns across famous and infamous cases of unanticipated outcomes. unpredictable surprises and manageable and unmanageable events) and vivid illustrations (exploding spacecraft, economic disasters, military misadventures, and many more) make it a book that will inform and engage seasoned scholars and novices alike." Paul DiMaggio, A. Organizational researchers, to start, will benefit from the near-encyclopedic reproduction
Outstanding This book does an outstanding job of surveying the literature related to why organizations sometimes fail in achieving their goals, adds some original ideas of the author, and concludes that adopting the practices of high-reliability organizations (HROs) is the best known remedy for most situations (I agree). I myself have read fairly extensively on this topic, yet I still
He is senior policy advisor for the Italian Parliamentary Commission on Medical Errors and scientific director of the research program on Human factors and safety culture at the Italian Air Force. He is the author of From Chernobyl to Linate: Technological Accidents or Organizational Errors? (2006) and Understanding Organ
This book will help readers understand how to limit the origins of myopia and therefore increase the capacity of organizations to anticipate and contain unexpected events.. Could the terrorist attacks on the Twin Towers have been avoided? What about the recent global financial crisis? Behind these apparently very different events it is possible to identify a common element of organizational myopia - a syndrome that severely limits the capacity of organizations to foresee the effects of their own decisions and to recognize signs of danger or opportunity. Using real-world cases, the author investigates the mechanisms that generate myopia in organizations at the individual, organizational and interorganizational level in contexts that are complex, uncertain, ambiguous and changeable. Based on several case studies, Organizational Myopia explores the barriers that impede organizations from identifying an effective response to the problems which they have to confront