Charles B. Perrow

Charles Perrow (Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley, 1960) is a past Vice President of the Eastern Sociological Society; a Fellow of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavorial Sciences (1981-2, 1999); Fellow of the American Academy for the Advancement of Science; Resident Scholar, Russell Sage Foundation, 1990-91; Fellow, Shelly Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies, 1995-96; Visitor, Institute for Advanced Studies, 1995-96, Princeton University; former member of the Committee on Human Factors, National Academy of Sciences, of the Sociology Panel of the National Science Foundation, and of the editorial boards of several journals." talk

Books

 * Charles Perrow, The Next Catastrophe: Reducing Our Vulnerabilities to Natural, Industrial, and Terrorist Disasters (Princeton University Press, 2007).
 * Charles Perrow, Organizing America: Wealth, Power and the Origins of American Capitalism (Princeton University Press, 2002).
 * Charles Perrow and Mauro F. Guillen The AIDS Disaster: The Failure of Organizations in New York and the Nation (Yale University Press, 1990).
 * Charles Perrow, Normal Accidents: Living With High Risk Technologies (Princeton University Press, 1984).
 * Charles Perrow, Complex Organizations: A Criticial Essay (McGraw-Hill Publishers, 1972).
 * Charles Perrow, The Radical Attack on Business (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1972).
 * Charles Perrow, Organizational Analysis: A Sociological View (Tavistock Press, 1970).