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Riskwork - Essays on the Organizational Life of Risk Management (Hardcover)
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Riskwork - Essays on the Organizational Life of Risk Management (Hardcover)
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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 suggests 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.
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