Overview
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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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
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.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
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.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Crisis, Catastrophe, and Disaster in Organizations
Book Subtitle: Managing Threats to Operations, Architecture, Brand, and Stakeholders
Authors: Dennis W. Tafoya
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-37074-9
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Business and Management, Business and Management (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-37073-2Published: 15 March 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-37076-3Published: 15 March 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-37074-9Published: 14 March 2020
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 286
Number of Illustrations: 16 b/w illustrations
Topics: Organization, Management, Corporate Communication/Public Relations
Industry Sectors: Automotive, Biotechnology, Engineering, Finance, Business & Banking