Includes index.

1. The Conceptual Foundations -- 2. The Ethical Foundations -- 3. The Buck Stops Here and It Stops Everywhere Else As Well -- 4. The Sacredness of the Bottom Line or the Japanese Model of External Crisis Prevention Management -- 5. The Institutionalization of the Will to Communicate in Japanese Companies: The Key to Internal Crisis Prevention Management -- 6. Crisis Management and Disaster Prevention Management -- 7. The Challenger Disaster -- 8. Post-Challenger Investigations: Has Anything Changed? -- 9. The King's Cross Underground Fire Disaster -- 10. The Herald of Free Enterprise Disaster -- 11. The Disaster on Mount Erebus -- Appendix 1: A further self-contradiction in the Privy Council ruling -- Appendix 2: A simplified outline of Mount Erebus events -- Appendix 3: On the legality of the findings of the Privy Council -- 12. Moral Responsibility and the Rise of the Techno-Organization.