Learning from the global financial crisis : creatively, reliably, and sustainably / edited by Paul Shrivastava and Matt Statler.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Shrivastava, Paul.

Statler, Matthew.

Series:

High reliability and crisis management.

High reliability and crisis management

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009.

Crisis management.

Sustainable development.

Economic policy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (377 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Stanford, California : Stanford Business Books, an imprint of Stanford University Press, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book is motivated by the simple hope that the cloud of the global financial crisis may yet have a silver lining-that political leaders, economists, and management scholars might seize this opportunity to reflect critically on the assumptions, practices, and infrastructures that have precipitated the crisis and to imagine and create new forms of organization that sustainably enhance the well-being of global stakeholders.The contributors suggest that aesthetic management, high reliability and crisis management, and sustainability science have much to contribute to the resolutio

Contents:

Truth, beauty and the financial crisis : evaluating what works / Robert Richardson and Matt Statler

Aesthetics and the economic meltdown / Ralph Bathurst and Margot Edwards

Smashing moneytheist mirrors : how artists help us live with financial schizophrenia / Pierre Guillet de Monthoux

Hence God exists / Skip McGoun

The fine art of finance / Steve Taylor

The play ethic / Pat Kane

Cassim's law : a regulars' table speech about the crisis / Henrik Schrat

Managing the global financial crisis : lessons from technological crisis management / Paul Shrivastava, Bill Gruver and Matt Statler

Failures of high reliability in finance / Nathaniel Bush, Peter Martelli, and Karlene Roberts

Wrong assumptions and risk cultures : deeper causes of the global financial crisis / Ian I. Mitroff and Can M. Alpaslan

A busy decade : lessons learned from crisis planning and response from 1999 to 2009 / Michael Berkowitz

A critique of managing the global financial crisis : lessons from technological crisis management / Brett Messing

Green financing after the global financial crisis / Perry Sadorsky

Leveraging ourselves out of crisis, again! / Tony Tinker and Aida Sy

The normative foundation of finance : how misunderstanding the function of models distorts the way we think about the efficiency of financial markets / Andreas Georg Scherer and Emilio Marti

A multi-level, multi-systems approach to sustainable finance / Mark Starik

The global financial crisis : lessons from India / Murali Murti and N.V.Krishna.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780804778640

0804778647

OCLC:

768083130