ABSTRACT
Organization science as a discipline has been shaped and still affected by a number of other disciplines, particularly sociology (a part of social sciences), anthropology, psychology, economics (often regarded as originally a part of sociology), philosophy and informatics. Considering that each of these disciplines have their own approaches, theories and methods within organization science can only be described and applied from a wide range of different classical and less classical perspectives. Therefore, there is no universal “best theory” or “best practice” in organizational theories, as the choice of a certain theory and approach will depend on the analysis context and the application in focus. When it comes to dependability and fault analysis, and to investigation of incidents and accident, it is especially since the 80’s (where the researchers seriously began to analyze the contributions of human and organizational factors to the incidents) has been developed a number of human-and organizationoriented approaches within safety research. The predominant discipline behind these approaches and as a link between general organization research and safety research is psychology. However, this seems to also be the only link, as organizational factors in safety research have not been tried categorized, as opposed to organization research, but predominantly viewed in relation to safety, and not to each other.
