Gene I. Rochlin
Recent publications
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"The Gulf War: Technological and Organizational Implications" (with Chris C. Demchak). Survival, 33, No. 3 (May/June 1991), 260-273. Reprinted (in Hebrew) in Maarachot), Journal of the Israeli Defense Forces, No. 323 (March 1992), 22-31.
"Contributions of the Social Sciences: How, What, When, Why, and Who?" Energy Policies to Address Climate Change (Berkeley: Universitywide Energy Research Group, University of California, 1991), 377-398. (Proceedings of the Conference on Global Warming and Energy Policy, Davis, California, Sept. 7, 1989).
"Lessons of the Gulf War: Tough New Technology May Have Fragile Underpinnings." IGS Public Affairs Report, 32, No. 6 (Nov. 1991), 10-12.
Lessons of the Gulf War: Ascendant Technology and Declining Capability (with Chris C. Demchak). Policy Papers in International Relations, No. 39 (Berkeley: Institute of International Studies, University of California, 1991).
"Defining High-Reliability Organizations in Practice: A Definitional Prolegomenon." In K. H. Roberts, ed., New Challenges to Understanding Organizations (New York: Macmillan, 1993), 11-32.
"Essential Friction: Error Control in Organizational Behavior." In Nordal Akerman, ed., The Necessity of Friction (Heidelberg: Springer/Physica-Verlag, 1993), 196-234.
"Global Climate Change as Political Expedient: Impending Doom or Another Excuse for Doing 'Good Things?' In Julia Trilling and Steinar Strøm, eds., Global Climate Change: European and American Policy Responses (Berkeley: Center for Western European Studies, University of California and Royal Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, 1993).
"Broken Plowshare: System Failure and the Nuclear Power Industry." In Jane Summerton, ed., Changing Large Technical Systems (Boulder, CO.: Westview, 1994), 231-264.
"Nuclear Power Operations: A Cross-Cultural Perspective" (with Alexandra von Meier). Annual Review of Energy and the Environment, 19 (1994), 153-187.
"Nuclear Technology and Social Culture." Proceedings of the Second MIT Conference on the Next Generation of Nuclear Power Technology, MIT-ANP-CP-002, (Cambridge, MA: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1994), 7:11-7:24.
"False Dichotomies and Limits to Testing: A Strawman Speaks Up, Comments on Limits to Safety" (with T.R. La Porte). Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management, 3, No. 4 (Dec. 1994) 221-228.
"Empirical Studies of the Operation of Complex Systems: Cultural Approaches and Social-Anthropological Perspectives." Proceedings of the 1994 Symposium on Human Interaction with Complex Systems, (NCA&T University, Greensboro, N.C., 1995), 407-417.
"Reliable Organizations: Present Research and Future Directions," Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management, 4, No. 2 (June 1996), 55-59. (Guest editor of this issue).
"Pris dans la toile: réseaux, mutations et conformité à l'ère de l'informatique" (Trapped in the Web: Networking, transformation, and conformance in the information age), Flux, no. 22, Octobre-Décembre 1995, 17-30.
“Human Operators as Organizational Trash Collectors,” Technology Studies, 3, No. 2 (Summer 1997), 276-282.
"The Social Construction of Safety." In Bernhard Wilpert, J. Misumi, and R. Miller, eds., Nuclear Safety: A Human Factors Perspective (London: Taylor and Francis, 1998), 5-23.
"Safe Operation as a Social Construct." Ergonomics, 42, No. 3 (Fall 1999), 1-12.
"Two-Thousand-N: An IT Odyssey." Journal of Contingencies and
Crisis Management, 7, No. 4 (December 1999), 199-214.
"An Ecological Approach to the Study of Highly-reliable
Organizations," Proceedings of the XIVth Triennial Congress of the
International Ergonomics Association,
"A Rational Choice of Error: Comments on the JCO Accident Report."
Cognition, Technology and Work, 2 (Summer 2000), 232-234.
"Les Organisations «Hautement Fiables»: Bilan et Perspectives de
Recherche." In Mathilde Bourrier, ed., Organiser la Fiabilité, Coll.
Risques collectifs et situations de crise (
"Future IT Disasters: A Speculative Exploration," Chapter 15 of From
Contingencies to Crisis Management: A Ten Year Review (
"Networks and the Subversion of Choice: An Institutionalist Manifesto." Journal of Urban Technology 8, no. 3 (2001): 65-96.
"Les réseaux et la subversion du choix: un manifeste institutionaliste." FLUX: Cahiers scientifiques inernationaux Réseaux et Territoires 47 (2002): 35-53.
"Safety as a social construct: the problem(atique) of agency."In
Jane Summerton and Boel Berner, eds., Constructing Risk and Safety in
Technological Practice (
"Mind the Gap: The Growing Distance Between Institutional and Technical
Capabilities in Organizations Performing Critical Operations." In Hsinchun
Chen, Reagan Moore, Daniel D. Zeng, and John Leavitt, eds., Intelligence and
Security Informatics (
Trapped in the Net: The Unanticipated Consequences of Computerization.
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