Organizational encounters with risk : an introduction / Bridget Hutter and Michael Power -- Organizational rituals of risk and error / Diane Vaughan -- 'Ways of seeing' : understandings of risk in organizational settings / Bridget M. Hutter -- Risk and rules : the 'legalization' of medicine / Carol A. Heimer, JuLeigh Coleman Petty and Rebecca J. Culyba -- Organizational responses to risk : the rise of the chief risk officer / Michael Power -- Incentives, risk and accountability in organizations / Timothy Besley and Maitreesh Ghatak -- Mathematizing risk : models, arbitrage and crises / Donald MacKenzie -- Interdependencies within an organization / Howard Kunreuther and Geoffrey Heal -- Restoring reason : causal narratives and political culture / Sheila Jasanoff.
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Organizational encounters with risk range from errors and anomalies to outright disasters. This collection of essays addresses the varied ways in which modern organisations process and deal with risk. Contributions by leading experts on risk management raise critical questions about how risk can be understood and conceived by organisations.
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Title
Organizational encounters with risk.
International Standard Book Number
0521609283
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Risk assessment.
Risk management.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS-- Insurance-- Risk Assessment & Management.