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Charles Perrow

Sociology

#92

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#136

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#48

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Charles Perrow's Degrees

PhD Sociology University of California, Berkeley
Masters Sociology University of California, Berkeley
Bachelors Sociology University of California, Berkeley

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According to Wikipedia, Charles B. Perrow was an emeritus professor of sociology at Yale University and visiting professor at Stanford University. He authored several books and many articles on organizations, and was primarily concerned with the impact of large organizations on society.

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THE LOGIC OF COLLECTIVE ACTION: PUBLIC GOODS AND THE THEORY OF GROUPS. By Mancur Olson, Jr. Rev. ed. New York: Schocken Books, 1971. 184 pp. $2.45 (1966) (12353)
Normal Accidents: Living with High-Risk Technologies (1986) (3547)
Complex Organizations: A Critical Essay (1975) (2812)
A FRAMEWORK FOR THE COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF ORGANIZATIONS (1967) (2484)
The New Competition: Institutions of Industrial Restructuring. (1991) (1076)
Insurgency of the Powerless: Farm Worker Movements (1946-1972). (1977) (817)
Organizational Analysis: A Sociological View (1970) (780)
THE ANALYSIS OF GOALS IN COMPLEX ORGANIZATIONS (1961) (616)
A society of organizations (1991) (417)
The Next Catastrophe: Reducing Our Vulnerabilities to Natural, Industrial, and Terrorist Disasters (2007) (354)
The organizational context of human factors engineering. (1983) (315)
Economic theories of organization (1986) (279)
Normal accidents : living with high-risk technologies : with a new afterword and a postscript on the Y2K problem (1999) (235)
The Limits of Safety: The Enhancement of a Theory of Accidents (1994) (228)
Organizing to Reduce the Vulnerabilities of Complexity (1999) (216)
Organizing America: Wealth, Power, and the Origins of Corporate Capitalism (2002) (208)
Normal Accidents: Living with High Risk Technologies - Updated Edition (2011) (203)
Organizational Prestige: Some Functions and Dysfunctions (1961) (173)
Overboard with Myth and Symbols (1985) (131)
The short and glorious history of organizational theory (1973) (124)
Normal accident at three Mile Island (1981) (114)
An Organizational Analysis of Organizational Theory (2000) (95)
Fukushima and the inevitability of accidents (2011) (94)
The Social context of AIDS (1992) (92)
: The Next Catastrophe (82)
Organization for treatment (1966) (80)
Prosaic Organizational Failure (1996) (76)
The bureaucratic paradox: The efficient organization centralizes in order to decentralize (1977) (75)
The AIDS Disaster : The Failure of Organizations in New York and the Nation (1990) (69)
Organizing for Environmental Destruction (1997) (68)
Why We Disagree About Climate Change: Understanding Controversy, Inaction, and Opportunity (2010) (61)
The meltdown was not an accident (2010) (54)
5 Demystifying Organizations (1978) (46)
Is business really changing (1974) (43)
Nuclear Waste: Knowledge Waste? (2010) (42)
Public Reactions to Nuclear Power: Are There Critical Masses? (1986) (40)
A Personal Note on Normal Accidents (2004) (38)
Disasters Ever More? Reducing U.S. Vulnerabilities (2007) (36)
Nuclear denial: From Hiroshima to Fukushima (2013) (35)
: Organizing America (34)
The Relationship Between Administrative Activities and Hospital Performance. (1972) (31)
The Reluctant Organization and the Aggressive Environment (1965) (30)
Using Organizations: The Case of FEMA (2005) (29)
Disintegrating Social Sciences. (1982) (28)
Disaster after 9/11 The Department of Homeland Security and the Intelligence Reorganization (2006) (26)
Organization for Treatment: A Comparative Study of Institutions for Delinquents. (1967) (26)
Organization for treatment : a comparative study of institutions for delinquents (1968) (25)
Complexity, Catastrophe, and Modularity (2008) (25)
How Institutions Form: Loose Coupling as Mechanism in Gouldner's Patterns of Industrial Bureaucracy (2006) (22)
What’s needed is application, not reconciliation: A response to Shrivastava, Sonpar and Pazzaglia (2009) (2009) (21)
Cracks in the “Regulatory State” (2015) (19)
Disasters Evermore?: Reducing Our Vulnerabilities to Natural, Industrial, and Terrorist Disasters (2014) (19)
Modeling firms in the global economy (2009) (19)
The President's Commission and the Normal Accident (2019) (14)
Comment on Langton's "Ecological Theory of Bureaucracy.". (1985) (14)
Journaling careers (1986) (14)
The radical attack on business (1972) (13)
Reality Adjustment: A Young Institution Settles for Humane Care (1966) (12)
ORGANISATIONAL THEORISTS IN A SOCIETY OF ORGANISATIONS (1992) (11)
Organizational or Executive Failures? (2005) (11)
Comment on Mowery, Nelson and Martin (2010) (9)
Conservative Radicalism (2008) (8)
Reality Shock: A New Organization Confronts The Custody-Treatment Dilemma (1963) (8)
Shrink the Targets (2006) (7)
Babies and Bath Water, Forests and Trees@@@Reviews of Complex Organizations, A Critical Essay: Third Edition@@@In Defence of Organization Theory: A Reply to the Critics (1987) (7)
Not Risk but Power@@@Societal Risk Assessment: How Safe Is Safe Enough? (1982) (6)
Three Mile Island: A Normal Accident (2013) (6)
Flammable: Environmental Suffering in an Argentine Shantytown (2010) (6)
Organisations and global warming (2010) (6)
Organizations and Global Warming (2010) (5)
Organizational Context of Human Factors (1982) (5)
Software Failures, Security, and Cyberattacks (2011) (5)
Racing the Storm: Racial Implications and Lessons Learned from Hurricane Katrina (2008) (4)
Nuclear Waste: Progress with Public Engagement—Response (2010) (3)
Giddens and the Developing Nations Examine Global Warming (2010) (3)
Research in a home care program. (1959) (3)
Risk: Negotiating Safety in American Society (2014) (3)
The Significance of Perrow's Normal Accidents: Living with High-Risk Technologies@@@Normal Accidents (1989) (2)
Disasters evermore? (2007) (2)
Structural Issues in Family Firms: A Commentary (1989) (2)
Loose Ends and Complex Arguments@@@Normal Accidents: Living with High-Risk Technologies. (1985) (2)
Life in the Ward.Rose Laub Coser (1963) (1)
The Firm As a Collaborative Community: Reconstructing Trust in the Knowledge Economy, edited by Charles Heckscher and Paul Adler. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006 (2008) (1)
Perspectives on organizations (1974) (1)
Emery Roe and Paul R. Schulman: High Reliability Management: Operating on the Edge (2009) (1)
CHAPTER 3. Complexity, Coupling, and Catastrophe (2000) (1)
Organizations and Clients: Essays in the Sociology of Service.@@@Work Organizations: Major Theoretical Perspectives.@@@Organizational Analysis: A Sociological View. (1971) (1)
Ideological politics (1980) (1)
``Active'' and ``Passive'' Risks (1986) (1)
Californians at risk: waiting for disaster. (1987) (1)
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists IT IS 6 MINUTES TO MIDNIGHT ® Feature Fukushima and the inevitability of accidents (2011) (1)
Nonsegregated hospitalization of alcoholic patients in a general hospital. (1959) (1)
The Modern Corporation Statement on Management (2016) (1)
Drinking Deep at Black Mountain College (2013) (1)
The "New Structural History" of Labor?@@@The Formation of Craft Labor Markets. (1985) (1)
(Chapter for Handbook of Society and Climate Change, Routledge, 2010 forthcoming) ORGANISATIONS AND GLOBAL WARMING (2010) (1)
Book Review:The Theory of Organizations: A Sociological Framework. David Silverman (1972) (1)
From medieval history to smashing the medieval account of organizations (2010) (1)
Organizations and the Production of Systemic Risk (2015) (0)
Frank Fischer, and Carmen Sirianni (eds.): Critical Studies in Organization and Bureaucracy 1984, Philadelphia PA: Temple University Press. 503 pages (1986) (0)
CHAPTER 4. Petrochemical Plants (2000) (0)
Book Review:Structures of Custodial Care: An Anthropological Study of a State Mental Hospital. Richard F. Salisbury (1963) (0)
Chapter 3. Toward Hierarchy: The Mills of Manayunk (2009) (0)
Confronting Nature: The Sociology of Solar-Neutrino Detection.Trevor Pinch (1989) (0)
The Rationalist Urge in Sociology and Social Movements: Zald as History (1999) (0)
The Professional Army in the War on Poverty: Notes of a Draft Dodger (1967) (0)
Chapter 4. Toward Hierarchy and Networks (2009) (0)
A Response (2007) (0)
Resilience rather than prevention and recovery (2009) (0)
Language Model Accidents Waiting to Happen? (2022) (0)
Theories of Society at Risk. (2002) (0)
Appendix. Alternative Theories Where Organizations Are the Dependent Variable (2009) (0)
Bureaucracy@@@Organizational Analysis: A Sociological View (1971) (0)
Minding the Machines: Preventing Technological Disasters (2004) (0)
Book Review:The Community and Its Hospitals: A Comparative Analysis. Ivan Belknap, John G. Steinle (1964) (0)
Organizational Encounters with Risk. Bridget Hutter and Michael Power, eds. (2006) (0)
Paul Osterman (ed.): Internal Labour Markets 1984, Cambridge, London: MIT Press. 296 pages (1986) (0)
"Active" and "Passive" Risks (1986) (0)
Ditching New Orleans (2010) (0)
Research in a home care program (1960) (0)
Management Laureates : A Collection of Autobiographical Essays (Volume 2) (2018) (0)
Urban challenges and opportunities for FEMA during the Trump administration (2017) (0)
Society at Risk in a Society of Organizations (2019) (0)
8. Concentration and Terror on the Internet (2011) (0)
Chapter 7. Summary and Conclusions (2009) (0)
Prepared for Handbook of Disaster Research DISASTERS EVERMORE ? REDUCING OUR VULNERABILITIES (2005) (0)
American Sociological Association A Symposium on “ Natural ” Disasters : Essays by Kathleen Tierney (2006) (0)
The Struggle for Water: Politics, Rationality, and Identity in the American Southwest.By Wendy Nelson Espeland. University of Chicago Press, 1998. Paper, $19.00 (1999) (0)
Open ward management of acute alcoholism; experience with a pilot program. (1958) (0)
Contributors to this issue 131–132 Acknowledgment of external reviewers for 2003 133–134 (2004) (0)
The Social Context of AIDS.Edited by Joan Huber and Beth E. Schneider. Sage, 1991. 192 pp. Cloth $38.00; paper $18.95 (1992) (0)
Effectiveness of Regulatory Agencies (2018) (0)
Chapter 5. Railroads, the Second Big Business (2009) (0)
Negative synergy (1994) (0)
Inside the Nuclear Plant's Executive Office (2005) (0)
The Worst Is Yet to Be (2009) (0)
Book Review:A Polish Factory: A Case Study of Workers' Participation in Decision-making. Jiri Kolaja (1961) (0)
Book Review: Clients Come Last: Volunteer and Welfare Organizations (1970) (0)
a decade of extreme consequences and transformational possibilities In the early 1980 s , sociologist (2019) (0)
Technology Can Nudge Climate Change Politics (2011) (0)
Chapter 2. Preparing the Ground (2009) (0)
Book reviews (1969) (0)
Californians at Risk: Waiting for Disaster . Earthquake Watch in California. Ralph H. Turner, Joanne M. Nigg, and Denise Heller Paz. University of California Press, Berkeley, 1986. x, 446 pp., illus. $35. (1987) (0)
Chapter 6. The Organizational Imprinting (2009) (0)
Disintegrating Soeial Sciences (2016) (0)
Risk Analysis and Decision Processes@@@Normal Accidents: Living with High-Risk Technologies (1986) (0)
An Almost Random Career (2018) (0)
The Values of Bureaucracy – Paul Du Gay (2006) (0)
Holistic health. Body maps. (1985) (0)

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