Organizational encounters with risk /
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| Imprint: | Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2005. |
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| Description: | 1 online resource (xiv, 268 pages) |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11812109 |
| Summary: | 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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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xiv, 268 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780511488580 0511488580 0511137265 9780511137266 0511135092 9780511135095 1280434880 9781280434884 9786610434886 6610434883 9780521846806 0521846803 9780521609289 0521609283 1107152542 9781107152540 0511201478 9780511201479 0511311680 9780511311680 |