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

• Autore: Power Michael
• Pubblicazione: Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2007
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (267 p.)
• Disciplina: 338.5
• Soggetto topico: Uncertainty; Risk management; Economics
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Organized uncertainty
• ISBN: 1-281-16410-0; 9786611164102; 0-19-153114-6; 1-4294-9278-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910451265803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II