Risk, Crisis and Security Management / Edition 1

by Edward P. Borodzicz

Overview

This book has two aims.  First, to consider how risk, crisis and security, may be linked in an organisational context.  Second, to review the role of, simulation and gaming in responding to these phenomena.  Historically, risk has been an established concept of academic interest for some time in both the pure and social sciences. Risk however, remains a subject of intense social and political controversy.  How we manage risk appears to dominate every debate from providing social services such as health, transport and public safety to the regulation of corporate activity.  Debates about the theory and practice of security management are less developed.  This book will inform the debate by considering the relationships between risk and security.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780470867044
Publisher:	Wiley
Publication date:	07/11/2005
Pages:	256
Product dimensions:	6.73(w) x 9.70(h) x 0.57(d)

About the Author

Edward Borodzicz is Professor of Risk and Crisis Management at Portsmouth Business School, and is also Director of the new Centre for Risk, Crisis and Security Management at the University of Portsmouth.

Table of Contents

Aims and Objectives ix

1 The New Totems 1

2 Theories of Risk and Organizational Failure 13

3 Security: The New Corporate Totem 49

4 Crisis 73

5 Business Continuity Management 85

6 Using Simulations and Games for Crisis Management 113

7 The Management of Risk, Crisis and Security 151

Appendix: Four Very Different Case Studies 161

Case study 1 – 11 September 2001 161

Case study 2 – Business continuity training at a bank 164

Case study 3 – The King’s Cross underground fire 183

Case study 4 – City University’s recovery from fire 203

References 209

Index 235

Editorial Reviews

"...this book examines the links between risk, crisis and security management..." (Supply Management, 6th October 2005)

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