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Record Nr.

UNINA9910777028203321

Autore

Power Michael

Titolo

Organized uncertainty [[electronic resource] ] : designing a world of risk management / / Michael Power

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2007

ISBN

1-383-03942-9

1-281-16410-0

9786611164102

0-19-153114-6

1-4294-9278-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (267 p.)

Disciplina

338.5

Soggetti

Uncertainty

Risk management

Economics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Incudes bibliographical references (p. [204]-232) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Organized uncertainty : an introduction -- Turning organizations inside out : the rise of internal control -- Standardizing risk management : making up processes and people -- Putting categories to work : the invention of operational risk -- Governing reputations : the outside comes in -- Making risk auditable : legalization and organization -- Designing a world of risk management.

Sommario/riassunto

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 ot