From clouds to hailstorms: a policy and administrative science perspective on safeguarding public values in networked infrastructures
In: International journal of public policy: IJPP, Band 4, Heft 5, S. 414
ISSN: 1740-0619
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In: International journal of public policy: IJPP, Band 4, Heft 5, S. 414
ISSN: 1740-0619
In: International journal of critical infrastructures: IJCIS, Band 2, Heft 2/3, S. 231
ISSN: 1741-8038
In: Journal of contingencies and crisis management, Band 12, Heft 1, S. 14-28
ISSN: 1468-5973
Organisation theorists and practitioners alike have become greatly interested in high reliability in the management of large hazardous technical systems and society's critical service infrastructures. But much of the reliability analysis is centred in particular organisations that have command and control over their technical cores. Many technical systems, including electricity generation, water, telecommunications and other "critical infrastructures," are not the exclusive domain of single organisations. Our essay is organised around the following research question: How do organisations, many with competing, if not conflicting goals and interests, provide highly reliable service in the absence of ongoing command and control and in the presence of rapidly changing task environments with highly consequential hazards?We analyse electricity restructuring in California as a specific case. Our conclusions have surprising and important implications both for high reliability theory and for the future management of critical infrastructures organised around large technical systems.
In: Journal of contingencies and crisis management, Band 12, Heft 1, S. 14-28
ISSN: 0966-0879