In this article, we link the literatures on organizational routines and the management of
uncertainties in order to establish the concept of flexible routines. Supported by flexible …

Introduction High-risk organizations are faced with the problem of having to achieve a
delicate balance between centralization and decentralization, that is between minimizing …

Purpose–The purpose of the present study is to introduce the elements characterising the
work context of high responsibility teams (HRTs) operating in high reliability contexts such …

The management of uncertainties is discussed as a key challenge for organizations and two
approaches to handling uncertainties are introduced, ie minimizing uncertainties versus …

In government and business, there is a growing trend towards using standardized tools and
guidelines under the assumption that formal approaches will make risk management …

Recent research in the field of safety science on the limitedness of rules as a measure to
achieve safety has coincided with new research in organization science on rules and …

Organizational routines embody the stability-change duality: for routines to be consistent,
actors performing them must improvise to adjust to changing conditions. While these …

Once regarded as stable and inflexible, organizational routines are increasingly seen as
capable of being adapted to the situation at hand and a potentially important source of …

The paper reviews the literature from 1986 on the management of those safety rules and
procedures which relate to the workplace level in organisations. It contrasts two different …

Recent developments in risk assessment acknowledge the need to capture both quantitative
and qualitative uncertainties in order to better understand and manage risks. This paper …