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Informationen zum Autor Maurizio Catino is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology and Social Research at the University of Milan, Bicocca, Italy. He is the author of From Chernobyl to Linate: Technological Accidents or Organizational Errors? (2006) and Understanding Organizations (2012). He has published several articles on learning from organizational errors and the problem of blame culture, medical error and defensive medicine, and the logics of inquiry in case of disasters. He is senior policy advisor for the Italian Parliamentary Commission on Medical Errors and scientific director of the research program on Human factors and safety culture at the Italian Air Force. Klappentext The book examines the mechanisms that generate myopia in organizations and explores how organizations can foresee and contain unexpected events. Zusammenfassung Organizational Myopia uses well-known case studies to examine the limitations of organizations to anticipate the effects of their decisions in order to recognize signs of danger or opportunity. It aims to understand how to limit the origins of myopia and therefore increase the capacity of organizations to foresee unexpected events. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1. Cases of myopia; 2. Uncertainty and predictability in organizations; 3. The mechanisms of organizational myopia; 4. Anticipating risk: the problem of learning; 5. Implications for organizational design; Epilogue.
