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Climate Change in the Asia-Pacific Region
Leal Filho, Walter - 2015
Preface -- Part 1:- Climate Change and Socio-Economic Issues -- Part II: Policy and Technology Responses. …This book investigates the socio-economic impacts of Climate Change in the Asia-Pacific region. The authors put forward … reduce the negative impacts of climate change. The needs and interests of critical and neglected groups are highlighted …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014019528
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Risk Communication for the Future : Towards Smart Risk Governance and Safety Management
Bourrier, Mathilde (ed.); Bieder, Corinne (ed.) - 2018
failures in the management of recent safety related events. In parallel, several cases have proved that actors not thought of … as risk governance or safety management contributors may play a positive role regarding safety. Building on these two … observations and bridging the gap between risk communication and safety practices leads to a new, more societal perspective on risk …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012692519
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Strategies in Failure Management : Scientific Insights, Case Studies and Tools
Kunert, Sebastian (ed.) - 2018
This book offers a comprehensive overview of failure in business, management and consulting. It features contributions by experts from diverse fields, who share unique insights from their real-life experiences. Readers will find perspectives from leadership, project management, change...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012395828
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Towards Wise Management : Wisdom and Stupidity in Strategic Decision-making
Peltonen, Tuomo - 2019
This book contributes to the discussion on wisdom in management, leadership and strategy by developing a unique theoretical approach. Integrating rational-analytical, intuitive and philosophical dimensions of wise decision-making, it advocates a broadly Platonic-Socratic view on wisdom. Applying...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012395890
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Technology Run Amok : Crisis Management in the Digital Age
Mitroff, Ian I. - 2019
The recent data controversy with Facebook highlights the tech industry as a whole was utterly unprepared for the backlash it faced as a result of its business model of selling user data to third parties. Despite the predominant role that technology plays in all of our lives, the controversy also...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012395982
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Downfall of Large German Listed Companies : A Two-Dimensional Analysis of Failure Factors
Frericks, Sebastian - 2019
Sebastian Frericks examines, based on a qualitative content analysis, the factors that lead large German listed companies to downfall. He finds factors and motives uncared for as well as new interrelations between variables that can be used to develop a future-looking risk sensitivity based on a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012396062
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Unsafety : Disaster Management, Organizational Accidents, and Crisis Sciences for Sustainability
Atsuji, Shigeo - 2016
aging of the nuclear reactor system, the breakdown of safety management, and inappropriate instructions from the regulatory …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012396284
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Crisis and Turnaround in German Medium-Sized Enterprises : An Integrated Empirical Study
Wittig, Thomas - 2017
Thomas Wittig aims at gaining additional insights into the crisis and turnaround process of SMEs, investigating both, the turnaround success and the impact of turnaround on the family role in family firms. Based on a specifically developed integrated conceptual turnaround model, the author...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012396285
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Modern Emergency Management
Cao, Jie - 2018
This book provides essential information on emergency management. It is composed of two parts, addressing the basic theory and related methods of emergency management, including risk management, coordination management, crisis management and disaster management. By putting the emphasis on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012396303
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Operational Research for Emergency Planning in Healthcare: Volume 1
Mustafee, Navonil (ed.) - 2016
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012396335