Organizational encounters with risk /

Organizational encounters with risk /

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Bibliographic Details
Imprint:	Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2005.
Description:	1 online resource (xiv, 268 pages)
Language:	English
Subject:	Risk management. Risk assessment. Risk assessment. Risk management. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11812109

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Other authors / contributors:	Hutter, Bridget M. Power, Michael (Professor of Accounting)
ISBN:	9780511488580 0511488580 0511137265 9780511137266 0511135092 9780511135095 1280434880 9781280434884 9786610434886 6610434883 9780521846806 0521846803 9780521609289 0521609283 1107152542 9781107152540 0511201478 9780511201479 0511311680 9780511311680
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. English. Print version record.
Summary:	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 understood and conceived by organisations.
Other form:	Print version: Organizational encounters with risk. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2005 0521846803 0521609283

Table of Contents:

Acknowledgements
1. Organizational encounters with risk: an introduction
2. Organizational rituals of risk and error
3. 'Ways of seeing': understandings of risk in organisational settings
4. Risk and rules: the 'legalization' of medicine
5. Organizational responses to risk: the rise of the
6. Incentives, risk and accountability in organizations
7. Mathematizing risk: models, arbitrage and crises
8. Interdependencies within an organization
9. Restoring reason: causal narratives and political culture
Bibliography
Index