Introduction
New risks, new crises, new dangers
Organizations in world risk society / Ulrich Beck and Boris Holzer
Crisis management and legitimacy: facing symbolic disorders / Romain Laufer
Understanding and managing crises in an "online world" / Sarah Kovoor-Misra and Manavendra Misra
New crises, new meaning
Organizational sense-making during crisis / Karlene H. Roberts, Peter Madsen, Vinit Desai
Crisis sensemaking and the public inquiry / Robert Gephart
A cognitive approach to crisis management in organizations / Jean-Marie Jacques, Laurent Gatot, and Anne Wallemacq
New crises, new barriers
The psychological effects of a crisis: deny denial?-grieve before a crisis occurs / Ian I. Mitroff
A passion for imperfections: revisiting crisis management / Christophe Roux-Dufort
The eight characteristics of Japanese crisis-prone organizations / Toshihiko Hagiwara
Voices from the terrace: from "mock bureaucracy" to learning from crisis within the UK's football industry / Dominic Elliott and Denis Smith
New crises, new solutions
A "total" responsibility management approach to crisis management and signal detection in organizations / Judith Clair and Sandra Waddock
Crisis management simulations: flaws and remedies / Bertrand Robert and Christopher Lajtha
Author index
Subject index
About the editors and contributors.
International handbook of organizational crisis management. ISBN 9780761988519. Published by Sage Publications, Inc in 2007. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.