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“THE LIMITS OF RISK: FROM APPLES TO TERRORISM, GOVERNMENTS TRY TO ANSWER HOW SAFE IS SAFE ENOUGH,” blared the headline in a frontpage story in the New York Times (Dionne, 1989). The newspaper article reported on several incidents, all occurring within a few months of one another, that posed dilemmas for government and corporate officials concerning what to do about potential risks. In each case, organizational assessments of risk were made, and actions were, or were not, taken. In the aftermath of their decisions, governmental and corporate officials were subject to intense public and press scrutiny.
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Tomkins, A.J., Victor, B., Adler, R. (1992). Psycholegal Aspects of Organizational Behavior: Assessing and Controlling Risk. In: Kagehiro, D.K., Laufer, W.S. (eds) Handbook of Psychology and Law. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-4038-7_26
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