When Things Go Wrong

'The editor has worked well to achieve a coherent product which will serve as the authoritative and leading text in its area. The future research agenda is to combine economic and non-economic performance measures as well a to differentiate failure as process and failure as an outcome.' - <b><i>Gerald Vinten Southampton Business Institute British Academy of Management News</p><p></b></i></p><p>This book deals with the the multi-faceted nature of organizational failure through examination of the organizational political cognitive and structural aspects of the phenomenon. `Failure' is presented as a relative concept where the expectations and strategies of stakeholders make claims on the performance of the organization and the notion