Charles Perrow

Charles B. Perrow (born February 9, 1925) is an emeritus professor of sociology at Yale University and visiting professor at Stanford University. He is the author of several books and many articles on organizations, and is primarily concerned with the impact of large organizations on society.[1] [2]

Academic appointments

After attending the University of Washington, Black Mountain College in North Carolina, and UC Berkeley, he received his PhD in sociology from Berkeley in 1960. He has held appointments at the universities of Michigan, Pittsburgh, Wisconsin, SUNY Stony Brook, and Yale, where he became emeritus in 2000. Since 2004 he has been a visiting professor at the Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford, in the winter and spring quarters.

His notable accomplishments include serving as the Vice President of the Eastern Sociological Society. Perrow was also a Fellow of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences and the American Academy for the Advancement of Science. Perrow served as a Resident Scholar for the Russell Sage Foundation at the Shelly Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies at Princeton University. Perrow was a visitor at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Princeton, New Jersey. Perrow was a member of the Committee on Human Factors at the National Academy of Sciences of the Sociology Panel for the National Science Foundation.[2][3]

Notable works

Perhaps his most famous and widely cited work is Complex Organizations: A Critical Essay (ISBN 0-07-554799-6), first published in 1972.[4][5][6][7]

Perrow is also the author of the book Normal Accidents: Living With High Risk Technologies (ISBN 0-691-00412-9) which explains his theory of normal accidents; catastrophic accidents that are inevitable in tightly coupled and complex systems.[8][9][10] His theory predicts that failures will occur in multiple and unforeseen ways that are virtually impossible to predict.[11][12][13][14]

Selected publications

Books

Chapters

Articles and Papers[2]

See also

References

  1. Charles Perrow (November/December 2011 vol. 67 no. 6). "Fukushima and the inevitability of accidents". Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. pp. 44–52. Check date values in: |date= (help)
  2. 1 2 3 http://sociology.yale.edu/people/charles-perrow
  3. Sven-Erik Sjostrand (16 June 2016). Institutional Change: Theory and Empirical Findings: Theory and Empirical Findings. Taylor & Francis. pp. 598–. ISBN 978-1-315-48623-9.
  4. Robert Joseph Wolfson (1990). A Formal Lexicon for the Social Sciences. University Press of Florida. pp. 85–. ISBN 978-0-8130-0978-0.
  5. Studies in Political Economy. 1981.
  6. Ann E. Prentice (2005). Managing in the Information Age. Scarecrow Press. pp. 101–. ISBN 978-0-8108-5206-8.
  7. Stewart Clegg; James R. Bailey (28 August 2007). International Encyclopedia of Organization Studies. SAGE Publications. pp. 283–. ISBN 978-1-4522-6567-4.
  8. William M. Evan; Mark Manion (2002). Minding the Machines: Preventing Technological Disasters. Prentice Hall Professional. pp. 86–. ISBN 978-0-13-065646-9.
  9. Todd R. La Porte (6 December 2012). Social Responses to Large Technical Systems: Control or Anticipation. Springer Science & Business Media. pp. 142–. ISBN 978-94-011-3400-2.
  10. C. Guedes Soares (19 June 1997). Advances in Safety and Reliability. Elsevier. pp. 357–. ISBN 978-0-08-055215-6.
  11. Regulatory Ecology: Strategy, Compliance, and Assurance in Complex Organizations. ProQuest. 2008. pp. 70–. ISBN 978-0-549-83354-3.
  12. C. F. Larry Heimann (10 March 2010). Acceptable Risks: Politics, Policy, and Risky Technologies. University of Michigan Press. pp. 10–. ISBN 0-472-02326-8.
  13. Ole Hanseth; Claudio Ciborra (1 January 2007). Risk, Complexity and ICT. Edward Elgar Publishing. pp. 86–. ISBN 978-1-84720-700-5.
  14. Charles Wankel (17 December 2007). 21st Century Management: A Reference Handbook. SAGE Publications. pp. 1–. ISBN 978-1-4522-6563-6.

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