Running to Stand Still: Examining the Role of Information Technology in Industrial Risk Management
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This paper reports the findings of a qualitative study undertaken at Smurfit Kappa Kraftliner. Based on Giddens (1990) and Beck (1999) we examined strategies for risk handling in connection to industrial IT. We found two pervasive problems where, paradoxically, the approaches to risk containment resulted in risk diffusion, rather than containment of risk, throughout the plant.
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تاریخ انتشار 2008