Managing Risk through Liability, Regulation, and Innovation: Organizational Design for Spill Containment in Deepwater Drilling Operations

Risk, Hazards and Crisis in Public Policy

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 1-22

  Richardson, Nathan D ^a   Macauley, Molly ^a   Cohen, Mark A ^b   Anderson, Robert ^a   Stern, Adam ^a  

^a Vanderbilt University ^*

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

containment; governance; industry R D; innovation; liability; oil spill; regulation

Indexed keywords

EID: 85171831260     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19444079     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2202/1944-4079.1083     Document Type: Article

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