Organizational encounters with risk /

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...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Hutter, Bridget M. (Editor), Power, Michael (Professor of Accounting) (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2005.
Subjects:
Risk management.
Risk assessment.
Gestion du risque.
Évaluation du risque.
risk management.
risk assessment.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Insurance > Risk Assessment & Management.
Risk assessment
Risk management
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Organizational encounters with risk : an introduction / Bridget Hutter, 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, Rebecca J. Culyba
  • Organizational responses to risk : the rise of the chief risk officer / Michael Power
  • Incentives, risk and accountability in organizations / Timothy Besley, Maitreesh Ghatak
  • Mathematizing risk : models, arbitrage and crises / Donald MacKenzie
  • Interdependencies within an organization / Howard Kunreuther, Geoffrey Heal
  • Restoring reason : causal narratives and political culture / Sheila Jasanoff.

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