Scapegoating : how organizations assign blame / Maurizio Catino, University of Milano-Bicocca.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Catino, Maurizio, author.

Standardized Title:

Trovare il colpevole. English

Language:

English

Italian

Subjects (All):

Attribution (Social psychology).

Scapegoat--Psychological aspects.

Scapegoat.

Blame.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 249 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2023.

Summary:

A large cruise ship sinks after hitting some outcropping rocks near the shore. Who is to blame? In the face of negative events - accidents, corporate scandals, crises and bankruptcies - there are two organizational strategies for managing blame. The first is to take full responsibility for the event and to implement adequate corrective measures. The second is to create one or more scapegoats by transferring blame to some of the people directly involved in the event. In this way, the organization can appear blameless and avoid costly remedial interventions. Reappraising the Costa Concordia shipwreck and other well-known cases, Catino analyzes the processes and mechanisms behind creating the 'organizational scapegoat.' In doing so, Catino highlights the limits of explanations centered on guilt and individual solutions to organizational problems, and underlines the need for a different civic epistemology.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Jun 2023).

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Print version:

ISBN:

9781009297219 (ebook)

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