ORGANIZATIONAL ENCOUNTERS WITH RISK by Bridget Hutter (Editor), Michael Power (Editor) ( 9780521609289 )

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ORGANIZATIONAL ENCOUNTERS WITH RISK

By:

Bridget Hutter (Editor), Michael Power (Editor)

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0521609283

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9780521609289

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CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

1 December, 2005

Pages:

284

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A critical analysis of the ways in which organisations and their participants 'encounter' risk.

Synopsis:

Organizational encounters with risk range from errors and anomalies to outright disasters. In a world of increasing interdependence and technological sophistication, the problem of understanding and managing such risks has grown ever more complex. Organizations and their participants must often reform and reorganise themselves in response to major events and crises, dealing with the paradox of managing the potentially unmanageable. Organizational responses are influenced by many factors, such as the representational capacity of information systems and concerns with legal liability. In this collection, leading experts on risk management from a variety of disciplines address these complex features of organizational encounters with risk. They raise critical questions about how risk can be understood and conceived by organizations, and whether it can be 'managed' in any realistic sense at all. This book is an important reminder that the organisational management of risk involves much more than the cool application of statistical method.

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Cambridge University Press

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