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Record Nr.

UNINA9910265238803321

Autore

Roe Emery

Titolo

Making the most of mess : reliability and policy in today's management challenges / / Emery Roe

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Durham, NC, : Duke University Press, 2013

Durham ; ; London : , : Duke University Press, , 2013

ISBN

9780822353072

0822353075

9780822395690

082239569X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (218 p.)

Disciplina

658.4/01

Soggetti

Policy sciences - Decision making

Infrastructure (Economics) - Management

Risk management

Reliability (Engineering)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introducing policy messes, management, and their managers -- When reliability is mess management -- The wider framework for managing mess reliably: hubs, skills, and the -- Domain of competence -- Bad mess management -- Good mess management -- Societal challenges -- Professional challenges -- Concluding how we know the mess is managed better.

Sommario/riassunto

Emery Roe suggests productive ways to manage ""messes""-complex, large-scale problems that cannot be easily resolved. He develops his argument through an analysis of the 2008 financial crisis and policymakers' responses to it.