We have three overarching aims:

• to bridge scholarship from separate but related fields: normal accidents, high reliability organizations, risk and crisis management, sensemaking in crises, the role of public enquiries, and change management.

• to maintain an international network, to progress the research agenda, and to develop a contingency framework for managing change in extreme contexts.

• to generate a collection of case accounts which focus on the management of change following extreme events.

We aim to produce a collection of case studies by July 2011.  These will be made available on this website. They will be collated into a report prior to the 2011 Annual Conference which will be distributed to registered participants. 

Collaboration in this project will involve (1) refining the case study template, (2) exchanging casework for feedback, (3) developing a report for AoM 2011 (Symposium and PDW), and (4) working on journal publications and an edited book project.