The Fukushima nuclear disaster: Leadership in crisis

• Main Authors: REB, Jochen, IINUMA, Yoshisuke, JOSHI, Havovi
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2012
• Subjects: Fukushima; Decision Making; Crisis Management; Ethics; Cultural Influences; Leadership; Nuclear Disaster; Groupthink; Japan; TEPCO; Business and Corporate Communications; Business Law, Public Responsibility, and Ethics; Critical and Cultural Studies; Human Resources Management; International and Intercultural Communication; Organizational Behavior and Theory; Strategic Management Policy
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/cases_coll_all/29; https://cmp.smu.edu.sg/case/3071
• Institution: Singapore Management University

This case describes the events and conditions surrounding the decision that Masao Yoshida, the plant manager of TEPCO’s (Tokyo Electric Power Company’s) Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant, has to make on March 12, 2011. A day earlier the region in which the power plant was located, was hit by a...