High-risk organization

2025
  • Natalia Jubault Krasnopevtseva
  • Renata Kaminska
  • Catherine Thomas

Organizing for resilience in high-risk organizations: The interplay between managerial coordination and control in resolving stability/flexibility tensions in a nuclear power plant

To avoid accidents, organizations operating in high-risk environments must develop resilience in the face of uncertainty. While uncertainty can be reduced through anticipation and prevention via procedural barriers—ensuring organizational stability—it can also be managed through actor autonomy, allowing for prompt, localized responses that enhance organizational flexibility. This qualitative case study of a European nuclear power […]

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2021
  • Natalia Jubault Krasnopevtseva
  • Renata Kaminska
  • Catherine Thomas

Unintended cascading effects of expanding organizational limits for resilience: lessons from the nuclear industry

The recent COVID pandemic revived the interest in resilience as the ability to absorb strain and preserve (or improve) functioning despite the presence of adversity. To increase resilience, organizations must articulate both the ways to deal with predictable and unpredictable events. In this study, the theory of organizational limits was used with the aim to […]

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