Increasingly, scholars view reliability-the ability to plan for and withstand disaster-as a social construction. However, there is a tendency to evoke this concept only in the face of catastrophes, such as the British Petroleum oil spill or the Space Shuttle Challenger explosion. This book...

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Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- PART I: SETTING THE STAGE -- 1. Advancing Organizational Reliability -- 2. The Multiple Meanings and Models of Reliability in Organizational Research -- PART II: IMPORTANT ASPECTS OF RELIABLE ORGANIZING -- 3. Three Lenses for Understanding Reliable, Safe,...