Drift into failure : from hunting broken components to understanding complex systems / / by Sidney Dekker
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| Autore: |
Dekker Sidney
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| Titolo: |
Drift into failure : from hunting broken components to understanding complex systems / / by Sidney Dekker
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| Pubblicazione: | Farnham, Surrey, England ; ; Burlington, Vt., : Ashgate, c2011 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (235 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 302.3/5 |
| Soggetto topico: | Social systems |
| Complex organizations | |
| System theory - Social aspects | |
| System failures (Engineering) | |
| Failure (Psychology) | |
| Complexity (Philosophy) | |
| Note generali: | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographic references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Failure is always an option -- Features of drift -- The legacy of Newton and Descartes -- The search for the broken component -- Theorizing drift -- What is complexity and systems thinking? -- Managing the complexity of drift. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | This book explores complexity theory and systems thinking to better understand how complex systems drift into failure. It studies sensitive dependence on initial conditions, unruly technology, tipping points, diversity - and finds that failure emerges opportunistically, non-randomly, from the very webs of relationships that breed success and that are supposed to protect organizations from disaster. It develops a vocabulary that allows us to harness complexity and find new ways of managing drift. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Drift into failure |
| ISBN: | 1-315-25739-4 |
| 1-282-96347-3 | |
| 9786612963476 | |
| 1-4094-2223-2 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910961931503321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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