High Reliability and Crisis Management (HRCM), A

Stanford University Press Book Series

Margo Beth CrouppenAcquisitions Editor, Organizational Studies and Economics

Stanford University Press

SUP publishes about 130 books per year. The Press specializes in the Humanities and

Social Sciences.◦ Concentrations in Business, Economics, Public

Policy, Politics, Asian Studies, Law, Sociology, Anthropology, History, Literature, Philosophy, and Religion.

Each editor is invited to run his/her program entrepreneurially.

An Introduction to SUP

25 titles per year 5 different types of books that act as a

diversified portfolio◦ Trade Titles◦ Professional Books◦ Textbooks◦ Monographs◦ Combo Books

Organized into subtopics under the umbrellas of Organizational Studies and Economics

My Book Program

Clusters vs. SeriesTwo ways to topically group books

Clusters Series

Developed around a topic, but not around a mission

More subtly branded as a grouping to external customers

Books determined by SUP Examples:

Entrepreneurship, Strategy, Political Economy, Economic Policy

Developed around a topic and a mission

Explicitly branded as a grouping to external customers

Books determined by SUP, Series Editors, (and sometimes) an Editorial Board

Examples: High Reliability and Crisis Management and Innovation and Technology in the World Economy

brings together established and emerging voices to generate a dialogue around these topics.

houses work on reliability in organizations and/or responding to crises when reliable practices are not in place—or fail.

provides a venue for discussions about reliability and crisis management to intertwine and grow.

promotes outstanding work that reaches beyond conventional approaches and disciplinary boundaries.

provides a unique home for projects that create bridges between scholars and real-world practitioners, while also producing books that speak exclusively to either of those audiences.

High Reliability and Crisis Management

Stanford University Press Series Editors Karlene H. Roberts and Ian I.

Mitroff Editorial Board

◦ Gregory Bigley ◦ Najmedin Meshkati ◦ Thierry Pauchant ◦ Paul Shrivastava ◦ Ranga Ramanujam ◦ Kathleen Tierney

HRCM Series Governance

2008

Published and Forthcoming

2010 2011 2011

Foundations of Risk and Resilience: How and Why Disasters Happen and What Can Be Done to Prevent Them by Kathleen Tierney (2012)

First, Do No Harm: Creating Highly Reliable Health Care Organizations by Timothy J. Vogus (2014)

Titles Under Contract

Complex Systems in Seismic Response

The Communicative Constitution of Reliability

Organizationally Thinking About and Acting On Operational Failures

The Coordination of Multi-Team Systems in Emergency Response Organizations

Some Topics for Future Books

Rangaraj Ramanujam, HRCM Board Member

Emery Roe, co‐author, High Reliability Management: Operating on the Edge

Timothy Vogus, author, First, Do No Harm: Creating Highly Reliable Health Care Organizations

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