Compliance and Initiative in the Production of Safety A Systems Perspective on Managing Tensions and Building Complementarity

Jean-Christophe Le Coze  is a safety researcher (Ph.D., Mines ParisTech) at INERIS, the French national institute for environmental safety. His activities combine ethnographic studies and action research in various safety-critical systems, with an empirical, theoretical, historical, visual and epistemological orientation. He has authored several books and numerous journal articles on safety science and is an associate editor of the journal Safety Science .

Benoît Journé is a professor of management at the University of Nantes, France; the director of the RESOH; and the chair at the IMT Atlantique—LEMNA. His research concerns reliability and resilience of high-hazard industrial systems, and in particular nuclear power, and pragmatist approaches to strategy and management. He is the author of numerous journal articles and an editor of several collective volumes on safety science topics.