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A typology of crises

What defines a crisis? Are there different types of crises? In this article, crises are classified according to how predictable and influenceable they are. This generates four types of crises: Conventional, Unexpected, Intractable and Fundamental crisis.

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ARTICLES and PAPERS
Risk in supply networks - a tale of principals and agents
Sometimes the most interesting articles are found outside the mainstream journals of ones field, and[...]
Risk Disablers
My latest acquaintance in supply chain risk research methodology is developing  drivers and dependan[...]
BOOKS and BOOK CHAPTERS
Book Review: Enterprise SCM
Have you ever played SimCity? I never liked Transport Tycoon that much, but I used to play SimCity a[...]
Book Review: Virtual Teams
This is another post resulting from my literature review when researching background material for my[...]
REPORTS and WHITEPAPERS
Global Risk Reports
While waiting for the World Economic Forum Global Risk Report for 2009, the continuation of the Glob[...]
The UK Transport Network Resilience...and I
UK Transport Network Resilience
For a budding and even for a seasoned researcher, nothing is more rewarding than to have one's publi[...]
from HERE and THERE
Resilience Lessons from the Haiti Earthquake
The recent earthquake in Haiti is a poignant reminder of how vulnerable a country is when it is faci[...]
The Business Continuity Institute
The Business Continuity Institute (BCI) was established in 1994 to enable individual members to obta[...]