The Principles and Practice of Crisis Management
Subtitle: The Case of Brent Spar
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: August 22, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9780230006867
Subjects: Management of specific areas; Business & Economics; Business / Economics / Finance; Business/Economics; Decision Making & Problem Solving; Leadership; Management - General; Business & Economics / Management; Brent Spar (Offshore oil platform); Case studies; Crisis management
Description: "This book focuses on the factors involved in the social mediation of risks, the social construction of reality, and attempts made by professionals to re-design how social reality appears. It looks at single-issue politics affecting the political agenda, the role of the mass media, as well as the way in which corporations respond in very sophisticated ways to threats to their political and ideological perspectives, and so advance their interests. The study also comments on how professional fields ate created, demonstrating the work that goes into proposing, sustaining and promoting particular areas of expertise."--Jacket.