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high-risk technologies and organizations  

Definition

  • The concept of high-risk technologies and organizations refers to the intersection of risk, the probabilistic chance of success; technology, a means of converting input to output; and organization, a structured purposeful collective. Together they describe the development and implementation of increasingly complex and indeterminate systems whose outcomes are difficult to predict. [Source: International Encyclopedia of Organization Studies; High-Risk Technologies and Organizations]

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http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/N9J-M8XN7C6X-V

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