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3. Causes of Failures in Intra-Organizational Risk Transmission

Authors : Dmitry Chernov, Didier Sornette, Giovanni Sansavini, Ali Ayoub

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Occurred in 18 out of 20 disasters under investigation, or in 90% of cases: The Great Chinese Famine | Collapse of the Banqiao and Shimantan reservoir dams | Problems with the rear cargo door of McDonnell Douglas DC-10 | Challenger space shuttle disaster | Chernobyl nuclear disaster | Barings Bank collapse | Staphylococcus related food poisoning in Snow Brand dairy products | SARS outbreak | Amagasaki train derailment | Sayano-Shushenskaya hydropower station disaster | Upper Big Branch coalmine blowout | Deepwater Horizon oil spill | Raspadskaya coalmine blowouts | Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear disaster | Volkswagen diesel engine emissions scandal | Collapse of the Fundão tailing dam at Samarco iron ore mining site | Severnaya coalmine blowouts | African swine fever epidemic in China.
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Metadata
Title
Causes of Failures in Intra-Organizational Risk Transmission
Authors
Dmitry Chernov
Didier Sornette
Giovanni Sansavini
Ali Ayoub
Copyright Year
2022
Book
Don't Tell the Boss!

Print ISBN: 978-3-031-05205-7

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-031-05206-4

Copyright Year: 2022

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-05206-4_3