Making the most of mess : reliability and policy in today's management challenges / Emery Roe.

By: Roe, Emery [author.]Material type: TextTextPublisher: Durham ; London : Duke University Press, 2013Description: 1 online resource (x, 206 pages) : illustrationsContent type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 082239569X; 9780822395690Subject(s): Policy sciences -- Decision making | Infrastructure (Economics) -- Management | Risk management | Reliability (Engineering)Genre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Making the most of mess.DDC classification: 658.4/01 LOC classification: H97 | .R64 2013Online resources: Click to View
Contents:
Introducing policy messes, management, and their managers -- When reliability is mess management -- The wider framework for managing mess reliably: hubs, skills, and the -- Domain of competence -- Bad mess management -- Good mess management -- Societal challenges -- Professional challenges -- Concluding how we know the mess is managed better.
Summary: Emery Roe suggests productive ways to manage ""messes""-complex, large-scale problems that cannot be easily resolved. He develops his argument through an analysis of the 2008 financial crisis and policymakers' responses to it.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introducing policy messes, management, and their managers -- When reliability is mess management -- The wider framework for managing mess reliably: hubs, skills, and the -- Domain of competence -- Bad mess management -- Good mess management -- Societal challenges -- Professional challenges -- Concluding how we know the mess is managed better.

Emery Roe suggests productive ways to manage ""messes""-complex, large-scale problems that cannot be easily resolved. He develops his argument through an analysis of the 2008 financial crisis and policymakers' responses to it.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

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