Dealing with risk in incident management: An application of high reliability theory

Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

Volumn 2, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Van Den Eede, Gerd ^a   Van De Walle, Bartel ^b   Rutkowski, Anne Françoise ^b  

^a Vlekho Business School   (Belgium)

^b TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HIGH RELIABILITY THEORY (HRT); INTERACTIVE COMPLEXITY; ORGANIZATIONAL CONTEXT; QUALITATIVE DATA;

DATA ACQUISITION; FINANCE; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; RELIABILITY THEORY; RISK MANAGEMENT; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS;

RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 33749608807     PISSN: 15301605     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/HICSS.2006.112     Document Type: Conference Paper

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