ISBN: 9780199253944

Since the mid-1990s risk management has dramatically expanded its reach and significance to become a benchmark of good governance for a wide variety of public and private organizations. T… More...

Since the mid-1990s risk management has dramatically expanded its reach and significance to become a benchmark of good governance for a wide variety of public and private organizations. This book shows that the rise of risk management has much less to do with real dangers and opportunities than with organizational accountability and legitimacy. - ;Since the mid-1990s risk management has undergone a dramatic expansion in its reach and significance, being transformed from an aspect of management control to become a benchmark of good governance for banks, hospitals, schools, charities and many other organizations. Numerous standards for risk management practice have been produced by a variety of transnational organizations. While these many designs and blueprints are accompanied by ideals of enterprise, value production, and. good governance, it is argued that the rise of risk management has also coincided with an intensification of auditing and control processes. The legalization and bureacratization of organizational life has increased because risk management has created new demands for proof and evidence of action. In. turn, these demands have generated new risks to reputation. In short, this important book traces the rise of the managerial concept of risk and the different logics and values which underpin it, showing that it has much less to do with real dangers and opportunities than might be thought, and more to do with organizational accountability and legitimacy. - ;Power's new book brings much the same note of sceptisism to another world-sweeping managerial pheomenon: the drive to convert uncertainty about the future into identifiable risks...[..] So what will be the new model to challenge, and perhaps even displace, risk management? We await Michael Power's next decennial book to tell us in the hope that it will be as iconoclastic and illuminating as the present one. - Rudolf klein, London School of Economics, Public Polic Business Business eBook, Oxford University Press, UK<

ISBN: 9780199253944

Since the mid-1990s risk management has undergone a dramatic expansion in its reach and significance, being transformed from an aspect of management control to become a benchmark of good … More...

Since the mid-1990s risk management has undergone a dramatic expansion in its reach and significance, being transformed from an aspect of management control to become a benchmark of good governance for banks, hospitals, schools, charities and many other organizations. Numerous standards forrisk management practice have been produced by a variety of transnational organizations. While these many designs and blueprints are accompanied by ideals of enterprise, value production, and good governance, it is argued that the rise of risk management has also coincided with an intensification ofauditing and control processes. The legalization and bureacratization of organizational life has increased because risk management has created new demands for proof and evidence of action. In turn, these demands have generated new risks to reputation. In short, this important book traces the rise of the managerial concept of risk and the different logics and values which underpin it, showing that it has much less to do with real dangers and opportunities than might be thought, and more to do with organizational accountability andlegitimacy. MICHAEL POWER, Books, Business and Finance, Industries and Professions, Insurance, Organized Uncertainty: Designing a World of Risk Management Books>Business and Finance>Industries and Professions>Insurance, Oxford University Press<

ISBN: 0199253943

Since the mid-1990s risk management has dramatically expanded its reach and significance to become a benchmark of good governance for a wide variety of public and private organizations. T… More...

Since the mid-1990s risk management has dramatically expanded its reach and significance to become a benchmark of good governance for a wide variety of public and private organizations. This book shows that the rise of risk management has much less to do with real dangers and opportunities than with organizational accountability and legitimacy. HC/Wirtschaft/Werbung, Marketing[PU:Oxford University Press], [PU: Oxford University Press]<

ISBN: 9780199253944

Since the mid-1990s risk management has dramatically expanded its reach and significance to become a benchmark of good governance for a wide variety of public and private organizations. T… More...

Since the mid-1990s risk management has dramatically expanded its reach and significance to become a benchmark of good governance for a wide variety of public and private organizations. This book shows that the rise of risk management has much less to do with real dangers and opportunities than with organizational accountability and legitimacy. Business Business eBook, OUP Oxford<

ISBN: 9780199253944

Organized Uncertainty: Designing a World of Risk Management Organized-Uncertainty~~Michael-Power Business>Management>Mgt/Leadership Hardcover, Oxford University Press