Global disasters : inquiries into management ethics.

Includes bibliographical references and index

Introduction; The conceptual foundations; The ethical foundations; The buck stops here and it stops everywhere else as well; The sacredness of the bottom line or the Japanese model of external crisis prevention management; The institutionalization of the will to communicate in Japanese companies : the key to internal crisis prevention management; Crisis managment and disaster prevention management; The Challenger disaster; Post-Challenger investigations : has anything changed?; The King's Cross Underground Fire disaster; The Herald of Free Enterprise disaster; The disaster on Mount Erebus; A further self-contradiction in the Privey Council ruling; A simplified outline of Mount Erebus events; On the legality of the findings of the Privy Council; Moral responsibility and the rise of the techno-oganization