Denis Fishbacher-Smith
Biographic Data
| ID | 6713848 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Denis Fishbacher-Smith |
| GIVEN NAMES | Denis |
| FAMILY NAME | Fishbacher-Smith |
| SIGNATURE | FISHBACHER-SMITH D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Glasgow |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 1 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 1 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The importance of failure theories in assessing crisis management
An adequate assessment of crisis management failure (and success) requires a validated causal theory. Without such a theory, any assessment of crisis management performance amounts to little more than a “just so” story. This is the key argument of this paper, which describes how hindsight biases and selective use of social science theory gave rise to a suggestive and convincing – but not necessarily correct – assessment of NASA's role in the Colu…
The importance of failure theories in assessing crisis management
An adequate assessment of crisis management failure (and success) requires a validated causal theory. Without such a theory, any assessment of crisis management performance amounts to little more than a “just so” story. This is the key argument of this paper, which describes how hindsight biases and selective use of social science theory gave rise to a suggestive and convincing – but not necessarily correct – assessment of NASA's role in the Colu…
The importance of failure theories in assessing crisis management
An adequate assessment of crisis management failure (and success) requires a validated causal theory. Without such a theory, any assessment of crisis management performance amounts to little more than a “just so” story. This is the key argument of this paper, which describes how hindsight biases and selective use of social science theory gave rise to a suggestive and convincing – but not necessarily correct – assessment of NASA's role in the Colu…
Accident (philosophy (1 work) · Argument (complex analysis (1 work) · Columbia university (1 work) · Crisis management (1 work) · Disaster Management and Resilience (1 work) · Economics (1 work) · Engineering (1 work) · Epistemology (1 work) · Hindsight bias (1 work) · Indictment (1 work)