Organized Uncertainty: Designing a World of Risk Management

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Michael Power (Professor of Accounting and Research Director, ESRC Centre for Analysis of Risk and Regulation, London School of Economics and Political Science)

Organized Uncertainty

Designing a World of Risk Management

Michael Power (Professor of Accounting and Research Director, ESRC Centre for Analysis of Risk and Regulation, London School of Economics and Political Science)

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Oxford University Press
06 November 2008

Risk assessment; Politics & government; Management accounting & bookkeeping; Management decision making; Ownership & organisation of enterprises

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.

By: Michael Power (Professor of Accounting and Research Director ESRC Centre for Analysis of Risk and Regulation London School of Economics and Political Science)
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 157mm, Spine: 16mm
Weight: 398g
ISBN: 9780199548804
ISBN 10: 0199548803
Pages: 268
Publication Date: 06 November 2008
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

1: Organized Uncertainty: An Introduction 2: Turning Organizations Inside Out: The Rise of Internal Control 3: Standardizing Risk Management: Making Up Processes and People 4: Putting Categories to Work: The Invention of Operational Risk 5: Governing Reputation: The Outside Comes In 6: Making Risk Auditable: Legalization and Organization 7: Designing a World of Risk Management

Michael Power is Professor of Accounting and Research Theme Director of the ESRC Centre for Analysis of Risk and Regulation at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales and an Associate member of the UK Chartered Institute of Taxation. He is a former Visiting Fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg, Berlin and at All Souls College, Oxford His publications include The Audit Society (Oxford, 1997) and The Risk Management of Everything (Demos, 2004). He is also co-editor of Organizational Encounters with Risk (Cambridge, 2005).

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