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3 - Corporate Scapegoating: The Costa Concordia Accident

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 June 2023

Maurizio Catino
Affiliation:
Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca
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Chapter 3 is dedicated to the reconstruction of the case of the Costa Concordia accident, which occurred on January 13, 2012, off the west coast of Italy, near the island of Giglio, and presents an analysis of the scapegoating process that involved the ship’s captain. Sailing very close to the coast, the Costa Concordia foundered on a rock. The impact tore open a gash in the ship, allowing in water which put the engines out of action. After traveling a short distance, the ship ran aground near the island, listing over onto its side. Out of over four thousand people on board, thirty-two died. The dominant view of this case from the judiciary, the media and public opinion, was that the ship’s captain was the main and, in fact, almost the only, figure responsible for the accident and for the inadequate management of the emergency. This book challenges the conventional interpretation of the accident, providing a revised history of the event and at the same time putting forward a different explanation.

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Scapegoating
How Organizations Assign Blame
, pp. 56 - 135
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

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