ELSE

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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2020
  • Natalia Jubault Krasnopevtseva
  • Renata Kaminska
  • Catherine Thomas

The Dynamics of Safety Risk Perception in High Reliability Organizations

Risk is particularly inherent in everyday activities of high reliability organizations such as, for example, nuclear power plants. Research on risk perception has largely emphasized the process of its social construction, neglecting the interaction between risk perception and the way risk is actually managed. There is a rich literature on risk perception, safety culture and […]

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Publication Type(s): Conference, ELSE, Professional
2020
  • Natalia Jubault Krasnopevtseva
  • Renata Kaminska
  • Catherine Thomas

Leadership for Resilient Organizing: a Critical Realist Approach to Revisit the Role of Leadership in High-Risk Organizations

There is a growing interest in studying leadership for resilient organizing. Models of leadership evolved from static, leader-centric, toward more social and processual, generating new questions about the role of leaders. Process perspective on leadership brings into light the importance of the context in which leadership unfolds. Based on a Critical Realist epistemology and applying […]

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Publication Type(s): Conference, ELSE, Professional
Publication Tags: Leadership for Safety
2019
  • Valérie Mérindol
  • Evelyne Rouby
  • Catherine Thomas

Heedful interrelating in three modes: Reliability versus performance in French fighter pilot squadron

This paper explores the way that the cognitive and behavioural resources of heedfully interrelating agents are distributed across the competing claims for attention from, respectively reliability and performance, both under collaborative and adversarial conditions, and in circumstances in which the scope for sense making varies with the complexity and uncertainty of the environment. Such resources […]

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Publication Type(s): Colloquium, ELSE, Professional
Publication Tags: Management, Performance, Sensemaking