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Techlash

The Future of the Socially Responsible Tech Organization

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Authors:
  1. Ian I. Mitroff

    1. University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, USA

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  2. Rune Storesund

    1. Storesund Consulting, Kensington, USA

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  • Examines the crises and threats caused by current and future technologies
  • Applies Proactive Crisis Management to Tech organizations
  • Explores the Socially Responsible Tech Company; what it is and how to achieve it

Part of the book series: Management, Change, Strategy and Positive Leadership (MACHSTPOLE)

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xix
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  2. Threats of Imaginable and Unimaginable Proportions

    • Ian I. Mitroff, Rune Storesund
    Pages 1-10Open Access
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  3. Beyond the Hype: Toward a Theory of the Unthinkable, Part I

    • Ian I. Mitroff, Rune Storesund
    Pages 11-17Open Access
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  4. Pluses and Minuses

    • Ian I. Mitroff, Rune Storesund
    Pages 19-24Open Access
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  5. Context: Technological Messes

    • Ian I. Mitroff, Rune Storesund
    Pages 25-28Open Access
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  6. Coping with Tech

    • Ian I. Mitroff, Rune Storesund
    Pages 29-33Open Access
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  7. The Socially Responsible Tech Company

    • Ian I. Mitroff, Rune Storesund
    Pages 35-42Open Access
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  8. The Moral Underpinnings of Technology

    • Ian I. Mitroff, Rune Storesund
    Pages 43-49Open Access
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  9. Back Matter

    Pages 51-55
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About this book

Technology has made human lives incomparably better. Civilization as we know it would utterly collapse without it. However, if not properly managed, technology can and will be systematically abused and misuse and thereby become one of the biggest threats to humankind. This open access book applies proactive crisis management to the management of technology organizations to make them more sustainable and socially responsible for the betterment of humankind. It forecasts the unintended consequences of technology and offers methods to counteract it.

Authors and Affiliations

  • University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, USA

    Ian I. Mitroff

  • Storesund Consulting, Kensington, USA

    Rune Storesund

About the authors

​Ian I. Mitroff is a Senior Investigator in the Center for Catastrophic Risk Management at  University of California  Berkeley (USA). He is also Professor Emeritus at the University of Southern California, where he was the Harold Quinton Distinguished Professor of Business Policy at the Marshall School of Business. He is the President of the consulting firm Mitroff Crisis Management, and is regarded as one of the founders of the discipline of crisis management. He founded and directed the USC Center for Crisis Management. Known for his thinking and writing on a wide range of business and societal issues, Dr. Mitroff is the author of 37 previous books.

Rune Storesund is Executive Director of the Center for Catastrophic Risk Management at University of California Berkeley (USA). He is also President and Founder of Storesund Consulting which provides services in all aspects of civil, geotechnical, water resources, ecological, restoration, and sustainability engineeringprojects. His expertise is on the application of reliability and risk-based approaches to engineering projects in order to effectively manage uncertainties.

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