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Author Roe, Emery, author.

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

Publication Info. Durham ; London : Duke University Press, 2013.

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Description 1 online resource (x, 206 pages) : illustrations
text rdacontent
computer rdamedia
online resource rdacarrier
Series e-Duke books scholarly collection.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Note Description based on print version record.
Subject Policy sciences -- Decision making.
Infrastructure (Economics) -- Management.
Risk management.
Reliability (Engineering)
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Roe, Emery. Making the most of mess. Durham ; London : Duke University Press, 2013 9780822353072 9780822353218 (DLC) 2012044753 (OCoLC)798613307
ISBN 082239569X
9780822395690
0822353075 (cloth : alk. paper)
0822353210 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780822353072 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780822353218 (pbk. : alk. paper)

 
    
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