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Organization and the Management of Risk in the Chemical Process Industry
Author(s) -
Bax Erik H.
Publication year - 1995
Publication title -
journal of contingencies and crisis management
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.007
H-Index - 51
eISSN - 1468-5973
pISSN - 0966-0879
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-5973.1995.tb00067.x
Subject(s) - normative , interdependence , degree (music) , process (computing) , business , control (management) , knowledge management , operations management , management , sociology , engineering , political science , computer science , economics , social science , law , physics , acoustics , operating system
This article attempts to explain differences in the occurrence of incidents between two plants both belonging to the same parent company. A negative relationship was found between leadership stability and the occurrence of incidents, where the degree of leadership stability was defined as the degree to which management positions are submitted to changes of management personnel over time. In the second part of the article, a cross sectional analysis of the two plants is reported on the basis of which it is concluded that geographical dispersion of the technical installations; the degree of normative dependence of the parent company; the degree of centralization of authority relations; the organizational culture; the emphasis on training and the degree of informal social control are interdependent factors that can be related to plant safety.