Advanced Search

Journal Navigation

Journal Home

Subscriptions

Archive

Contact Us

Table of Contents

Click here to submit your manuscript to SPPS

Click here to sign up for SAGE Journal Email Alerts today!

Sign In to gain access to subscriptions and/or personal tools.
American Behavioral Scientist
This Article
Right arrow Full Text (PDF)
Right arrow References
Right arrow Alert me when this article is cited
Right arrow Alert me if a correction is posted
Right arrow Citation Map
Services
Right arrow Email this article to a friend
Right arrow Similar articles in this journal
Right arrow Alert me to new issues of the journal
Right arrow Add to Saved Citations
Right arrow Download to citation manager
Right arrowRequest Permissions
Right arrow Request Reprints
Right arrow Add to My Marked Citations
Citing Articles
Right arrow Citing Articles via HighWire
Right arrow Citing Articles via Google Scholar
Right arrow Citing Articles via Scopus
Google Scholar
Right arrow Articles by BUSENBERG, G. J.
Right arrow Search for Related Content
Social Bookmarking
Add to CiteULike   Add to Complore   Add to Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us   Add to Digg   Add to Reddit   Add to Technorati   Add to Twitter  
What's this?

Innovation, Learning, and Policy Evolution in Hazardous Systems

GEORGE J. BUSENBERG

University of Nevada Las Vegas

This study examines learning processes within the policy networks of organizations and individuals that influence the management of hazardous technological systems. Innovations in science and technology—as well as operational experiences—create recurring opportunities for network members to learn new methods for enhancing the capabilities of system safeguards (defenses against system hazards). Networks can use institutional learning arrangements— structures, procedures, and customs that promote the search for safety improvements—to take advantage of these opportunities. Furthermore, networks can learn from system disasters. Such disasters can both reveal weaknesses in system safeguards and provide the impetus for the deployment of enhanced safeguards. The concepts developed here are examined through a case study of innovative learning arrangements used by a policy network that manages an environmentally hazardous system, the marine oil trade in the Prince William Sound region of Alaska.

American Behavioral Scientist, Vol. 44, No. 4, 679-691 (2000)
DOI: 10.1177/00027640021956323
Add to CiteULike CiteULike   Add to Complore Complore   Add to Connotea Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us Del.icio.us   Add to Digg Digg   Add to Reddit Reddit   Add to Technorati Technorati   Add to Twitter Twitter    What's this?


This article has been cited by other articles:


Home page
 Human RelationsHome page
L. Knight and A. Pye
Network learning: An empirically derived model of learning by groups of organizations
Human Relations, March 1, 2005; 58(3): 369 - 392.
[Abstract] [PDF]

Home page
 American Behavioral ScientistHome page
T. A. Birkland
Introduction: Risk, Disaster, and Policy in the 21st Century
American Behavioral Scientist, November 1, 2004; 48(3): 275 - 280.
[PDF]