- Natalia Jubault Krasnopevtseva
- Renata Kaminska
- Catherine Thomas
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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- Yoann Guntzburger
- Natalia Jubault Krasnopevtseva
- Renata Kaminska
- Catherine Thomas
Despite advancements in ensuring safety, high-risk and highly regulated organizations have not been immune to major life-threatening accidents. Growing evidence indicates that these accidents are not solely attributable to the limitations of technical barriers, but rather to the complex interactions among technical, human, and organizational factors. While both the literature and regulatory frameworks have acknowledged […]
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- Sergiy Bushuyev
- Roberta Cirillo
- Willem Janssens
- Gabriel Lazaro Pavel
- Kateryna Piliuhina
- Marco Ricotti
The nuclear industry worldwide is experiencing significant transformations driven by various trends. They include rising energy demands, technological advancements, climate crisis challenges, international cooperation agreements, growing public concerns and evolving threats. These trends require robust competences development in the nuclear area to ensure the safe and secure use of nuclear energy. This paper analyses the […]
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- Natalia Jubault Krasnopevtseva
Dealing with the crises and their consequences requires effective leadership. It has been suggested that the direct influence of leaders on organisational outcomes has been overestimated, which calls for more processual approaches and additional research on the mechanisms that might explain the causal relationship between what leaders do and how what they do affects followers […]
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- Evelyne Rouby
- Catherine Thomas
In dynamic work settings, developing a collective mindful attention is crucial but challenging. It can be achieved through learning. However, the relationships between mindful attention and learning are complex and recursive. Mindful attention is both the prerequisite and the outcome of learning. Based on a single case study of a cement plant, an inductive model […]
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- Carole Daniel
- Pierre Daniel
- Hedley Smyth
Mindfulness is receiving growing attention in the project management community, probably due its proven beneficial effects at individual, team and organization levels in other management domains. Indeed, 80% of the 50 publications identified in this paper were published over the last decade. This review addresses the disparate extant publications related to mindfulness in the field […]
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- Natalia Jubault Krasnopevtseva
Despite their efforts to increase organizational reliability, high-risk industries, such as nuclear power production, have experienced major disasters in recent years. As a consequence, a new form of safety emerged – managed safety, which must be developed alongside regulated safety. Research on high reliability organizations and resilience shows that only a mutual reinforcement of these […]
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