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Abstract
This collection of essays deals with the situated management of risk in a wide variety of organizational settings - aviation, mental health, railway project management, energy, toy manufacture, financial services, chemicals regulation, and NGOs. Each chapter connects the analysis of risk studies with critical themes in organization studies more generally based on access to, and observations of, actors in the field. The emphasis in these contributions is upon the variety of ways in which organizational actors, in combination with a range of material technologies and artefacts, such as safety reporting systems, risk maps and key risk indicators, accomplish and make sense of the normal work of managing risk - riskwork. In contrast to a preoccupation with disasters and accidents after the event, the volume as whole is focused on the situationally specific character of routine risk management work. It emerges that this riskwork is highly varied, entangled with material artefacts which represent and construct risks and, importantly, is not confined to formal risk management departments or personnel. Each chapter suggest that the distributed nature of this riskwork lives uneasily with formalized risk management protocols and accountability requirements. In addition, riskwork as an organizational process makes contested issues of identity and values readily visible. These 'back stage/back office' encounters with risk are revealed as being as much emotional as they are rationally calculative. Overall, the collection combines constructivist sensibilities about risk objects with a micro-sociological orientation to the study of organizations.
Author Combination
Power, Michael (editor)
Author Monographic
Power, Michael (editor)
Call Number
950.P6.R5
Date of Publication
2016
ISBN
978-0-19-875322-3
Keywords
Risk Analysis ;
Organizations ;
Theory ;
Notes
LCCN: 2016932199 Contents: Introduction - Riskwork: the Organizational Life of Risk Management The Work of Making Risk Frameworks Risk Mapping: Day-to-Day Risk Work in Inter-organizational Project Management Beyond the Headlines: Day-to-Day Practices of Risk Measurement and Management in a Non-Governmental Organization The Work of Risk Oversight The Role of Valuation Practices for Risk Identification Riskwork: Three Scenarios from a Study of Industrial Chemicals in Canada Technoculture: Risk Reporting and Analysis at a Large Airline Conversation Stoppers: Constructing Consumer Attitudes to Risk in UK Wealth Management Risk and Routine in the Digitized World Doing Institutional Risk Work in a Mental Health Hospital Affective Overflows in Clinical Riskwork The Triumph of the Humble Chief Risk Office Postscript: On Riskwork and Auditwork
Place of Publication
Oxford, UK
Publisher Name
Oxford University Press
Title Combination
RISKWORK: ESSAYS ON THE ORGANIZATIONAL LIFE OF RISK MANAGEMENT
Title Monographic
RISKWORK: ESSAYS ON THE ORGANIZATIONAL LIFE OF RISK MANAGEMENT
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Book_Short_Form
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