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Author Dekker, Sidney

Title Drift into failure : from hunting broken components to understanding complex systems / Sidney Dekker
Published Boca Raton : CRC Press, 2016

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Description 1 online resource
Contents Failure is always an option -- Features of drift -- The legacy of Newton and Descartes -- The search for the broken component -- Theorizing drift -- What is complexity and systems thinking? -- Managing the complexity of drift
Summary This book explores complexity theory and systems thinking to better understand how complex systems drift into failure. It studies sensitive dependence on initial conditions, unruly technology, tipping points, diversity - and finds that failure emerges opp
Subject Social systems.
Complex organizations.
System theory -- Social aspects
System failures (Engineering)
Failure (Psychology)
Complexity (Philosophy)
PSYCHOLOGY -- Social Psychology.
Complex organizations
Complexity (Philosophy)
Failure (Psychology)
Social systems
System failures (Engineering)
System theory -- Social aspects
Form Electronic book
ISBN 1351942913
9781351942911
9781351942928
1351942921