Paper presented at the 39th European Group for Organizational Studies (EGOS) Colloquium, held in Cagliari, Italy, from 6 to 8 July 2023. More information:
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- Natalia Jubault Krasnopevtseva
- Renata Kaminska
- Catherine Thomas
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Strengthening European Nuclear Safety and Safeguards Education training and tutoring
2023
- Savéria Cecchi
- Pierre Daniel
- Nadine Gabor
- Sascha Gentes
- Yoann Guntzburger
- Natalia Jubault Krasnopevtseva
- Renata Kaminska
- Jacques Repussard
- Joseph A. Ridao Cabrerizo
- Evelyne Rouby
- Catherine Thomas
Nuclear decommissioning: project management and leadership
Management and leadership for safety relate to managerial competencies necessary to develop, promote and sustain a safety culture and to set goals, lead others and manage knowledge and projects to enhance safety performance. The development of these competencies is needed to enrich and complement the predominant technical background and skills of engineers and/or managers involved […]
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- Renata Kaminska
- Ana Pizzutti
- Catherine Thomas
From Reactive to Proactive Territorial Resilience Capability Building in the Post-Disaster Context
Paper presented at the 39th European Group for Organizational Studies (EGOS) Colloquium, held in Cagliari, Italy, from 6 to 8 July 2023. More information:
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- Willem Janssens
- Gabriel Pavel
- Marco Ricotti
- Susanna Sancassani
First Year of Graduation of the Nuclear Safeguards Masters Students
Twenty-five international students, with more than half being women and about half of candidates from the African continent, studied a full year and almost entirely virtually at the first ever academic master program on nuclear safeguards from October 2021 to September 2022. The program was initiated by the European Commission (EC) Directorate General for International […]
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- Yoann Guntzburger
- Natalia Jubault Krasnopevtseva
- Renata Kaminska
- Catherine Thomas
Organizational embeddedness of leadership for safety: crossed perspectives on individual and collective tensions in high-risk organizations
Paper presented at the 38th European Group for Organizational Studies (EGOS) Colloquium, held in Vienna, Austria, from 7 to 9 July 2022. More information:
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- 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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- Yoann Guntzburger
- Natalia Jubault Krasnopevtseva
- Renata Kaminska
- Catherine Thomas
Leadership for Resilience and Safety Management: Crossing Perspectives on Individual and Collective Tensions in the Nuclear Industry
Paper presented at the Association pour la gestion des connaissances dans la société et les organisations (AGeCSO) Conference, held online and in Chambon-sur-Lac, France, from 18 to 20 May 2021. More information:
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- Natalia Jubault Krasnopevtseva
- Renata Kaminska
- Catherine Thomas
The role of leadership for resilience: challenges of sensegiving and sensemaking across organizational levels
Paper presented at the British Academy of Management Annual Conference, held online and in Manchester, UK, from 31 August to 3 September 2021. More information:
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- Natalia Jubault Krasnopevtseva
- Renata Kaminska
- Catherine Thomas
Resilience and organizational limits in the high-risk nuclear industry context
The ongoing COVID-19 crisis renewed scholarly interest in organizational resilience. To ensure resilience, organizations must develop the ability to proactively prepare for ambiguous and unexpected situations. From this perspective, resilience may be considered as a mindful process leading to reliability where mindfulness allows to collectively manage stability/vividness tension and extend individual limits of attention. Following […]
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- Natalia Jubault Krasnopevtseva
- Renata Kaminska
- Catherine Thomas
Capturing the Unobservable: Uncovering Mechanisms of Leadership as Process through a Critical Realist Lens
Paper presented at the British Academy of Management Annual Conference, held online and in Manchester, UK, from 31 August to 3 September 2021. More information:
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- Natalia Jubault Krasnopevtseva
- Renata Kaminska
- Catherine Thomas
Unintended cascading effects of exceeding organizational limits while trying to improve resilience: lessons from the nuclear industry
Paper presented at the 37th European Group for Organizational Studies (EGOS) Colloquium, held online and in Amsterdam, Netherlands, from 8 to 10 July 2021. More information:
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- Natalia Jubault Krasnopevtseva
- Renata Kaminska
- Catherine Thomas
Leadership for safety and resilience: challenges of sensemaking across organizational levels
Paper presented at the EURAM European Academy of Management Conference, held online and in Montréal, Canada, from 16 to 18 June 2021. More information:
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- Willem Janssens
- Gabriel Pavel
- Marco Ricotti
- Susanna Sancassani
Development of a Specializing Master Program on Nuclear Safeguards and Non-proliferation
Nuclear Safeguards and Non-Proliferation is largely, if not totally, absent in many nuclear academic curricula. Thus, the European Nuclear Education Network (ENEN) received the request from the European Commission (DG-INTPA), in the framework of the actions devoted to development cooperation, to implement a full-fledged master course on nuclear safeguards. The specializing master will be organized […]
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- 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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- 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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