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Scapegoating

How Organizations Assign Blame

By: Maurizio Catino

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Scapegoating

How Organizations Assign Blame

By: Maurizio Catino

A large cruise ship sinks after hitting some outcropping rocks near the shore. Who is to blame? In the face of negative events – accidents, corporate scandals, crises and bankruptcies – there are two organizational strategies for managing blame. The first is to take full responsibility for the event and to implement adequate corrective measures. The second is to create one or more scapegoats by transferring blame to some of the people directly involved in the event. In this way, the organization can appear blameless and avoid costly remedial interventions. Reappraising the Costa Concordia shipwreck and other well-known cases, Catino analyzes the processes and mechanisms behind creating the 'organizational scapegoat.' In doing so, Catino highlights the limits of explanations centered on guilt and individual solutions to organizational problems, and underlines the need for a different civic epistemology.

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Cambridge University Press

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1009297201

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9781009297202

Mafia Organizations

The Visible Hand of Criminal Enterprise

By: Maurizio Catino

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Mafia Organizations

The Visible Hand of Criminal Enterprise

By: Maurizio Catino

How do mafias work? How do they recruit people, control members, conduct legal and illegal business, and use violence? Why do they establish such a complex mix of rituals, rules, and codes of conduct? And how do they differ? Why do some mafias commit many more murders than others? This book makes sense of mafias as organizations, via a collative analysis of historical accounts, official data, investigative sources, and interviews. Catino presents a comparative study of seven mafias around the world, from three Italian mafias to the American Cosa Nostra, Japanese Yakuza, Chinese Triads, and Russian mafia. He identifies the organizational architecture that characterizes these criminal groups, and relates different organizational models to the use of violence. Furthermore, he advances a theory on the specific functionality of mafia rules and discusses the major organizational dilemmas that mafias face. This book shows that understanding the organizational logic of mafias is an indispensable step in confronting them.

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1108750931

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Organizational Myopia

Problems of Rationality and Foresight in Organizations

By: Maurizio Catino

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Organizational Myopia

Problems of Rationality and Foresight in Organizations

By: Maurizio Catino

The book examines the mechanisms that generate myopia in organizations and explores how organizations can foresee and contain unexpected events.

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1107027039

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Mafia Organizations

By: Maurizio Catino

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Mafia Organizations

By: Maurizio Catino

Makes sense of mafias as organizations, via a pioneering comparative analysis of seven mafia groups from around the world. This collative study of historical accounts, official data, investigative sources, and interviews will aid students and scholars of sociology, organizational studies and criminology to better understand how mafias work.

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1108476112

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Scapegoating

How Organizations Assign Blame

By: Maurizio Catino

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Scapegoating

How Organizations Assign Blame

By: Maurizio Catino

Reveals the mechanisms involved in the creation of scapegoats in organizations.

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100929718X

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The Sequence of Event Analysis in Criminal Trials

Scientific Proofs for Tracking Criminal Liabilities in Complex Accidents and Disasters

By: Fabrizio D’Errico,Maurizio Dalla Casa

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The Sequence of Event Analysis in Criminal Trials

Scientific Proofs for Tracking Criminal Liabilities in Complex Accidents and Disasters

By: Fabrizio D’Errico,Maurizio Dalla Casa

This book presents a general method that lawyers, prosecutors and judges can follows to assess the quality and scientific content of technical work done for an accident and crime scene reconstruction. Using multilevel sequence of events analysis allows all key events to be fully identified, which in turn assists judicial bodies in identifying where to assign specific criminal liability. Created from a concept long sought by the two authors (an engineer and an attorney), the method allows readers without any technical background to progress from an examination of evidence gathered at the scene of a complex accident and to reconstruct "beyond reasonable doubt" the events that took place. Once created and scientifically verified by the sequence of events analysis, the chain of key events serves as a reference source for various levels of complex organizations and inter-organization structures in cases involving complex criminal responsibilities.

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Springer

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3662478986

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Organizational Myopia

Problems of Rationality and Foresight in Organizations

By: Maurizio Catino

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Problems of Rationality and Foresight in Organizations

By: Maurizio Catino

Could the terrorist attacks on the Twin Towers have been avoided? What about the control failures in the recent global financial crisis? Behind these apparently very different events, it is possible to identify a common element of organizational myopia - a syndrome that severely limits the capacity of organizations to foresee the effects of their own decisions and to recognize signs of danger or opportunity. Organizational Myopia explores the barriers that impede organizations from identifying an effective response to the problems that they have to confront. Using real-world cases, the author investigates the mechanisms that generate myopia in organizations at the individual, organizational, and interorganizational level in contexts that are complex, uncertain, ambiguous, and changeable. This book will help readers understand how to limit the origins of myopia and therefore increase the capacity of organizations to anticipate and contain unexpected events.

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1139620118

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Top Rated Freshwater Fishing

In North America

By: Maurizio Valerio

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Top Rated Freshwater Fishing

In North America

By: Maurizio Valerio

If you are looking to pursue salmon fresh from the sea in Alaska or are thinking of chasing wild brook trout in a mountain stream, this comprehensive guide to the fishing guides, outfitters, lodges, and resorts that offer freshwater fishing will be the most useful tool in your pre-trip tackle box. Listings are organized on a state-by-state basis. Each listing includes details such as the style of fishing (trolling to ice fishing to fly fishing), targeted species, types of boats used, type of water fished, and services provided. There is, in short, a complete profile of what the client is getting. Photos and maps complete the picture.

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1586670026

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Top Rated Saltwater Fishing

Bays, Estuaries, Flats and Offshore in North America

By: Maurizio Valerio

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Top Rated Saltwater Fishing

Bays, Estuaries, Flats and Offshore in North America

By: Maurizio Valerio

Whether you are planning an offshore pursuit of one of the giants of the sea or are looking to sight fish for bonefish, you will appreciate this invaluable guide to the guides, outfitters, captains and lodges that provide these opportunities.

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The Sequence of Event Analysis in Criminal Trials

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