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Organized Uncertainty: Designing a World of Risk Management


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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.

Table of Contents:
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: 7. Designing a World of Risk Management

About the Author :
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).

Review :
`This is a book which has an importance way beyond its apparent substantive concerns. Any serious study of regulation, or of the governance of organizations, will have to come to terms with Power's analysis.' Michael Moran, Public Administration Vol. 86 `In Organized Uncertainty, Power has repeated the feat of The Audit Society: once again, this is a book which has an importance way beyond its apparent substantive concerns. Any serious study of regulation, or of the governance of organizations, will have to come to terms with Power's analysis: we will either have to incorporate him into our work, or find some way to demolish him.' Public Administration `Power has a knack for critically writing about the latest accounting trends in an intelligent, accessible and interesting way... Organized Uncertainty extends the audit society thesis by challenging the notion of risk management and questioning whether uncertainty can ever be organized.' Organization `...iconoclastic and illuminating...' Journal of Public Policy `Michael Power's description and analysis of the rise of the risk management movement is striking and impressive. Arising worldwide, in the current neo-liberal period, the movement demands great managerial expansion. Organizations everywhere are now to track and manage all sorts of uncertainties - external, internal and in their own operations - as risks to be calculated. Most innovatively, Power shows that the core cultural pressures are less to reduce risks than to demonstrate accountability for them. Thus the reputable organization, as an effective actor, must show that it has proper risk management processes, not that these reduce risks.' John Meyer, Professor of Sociology, Stanford University `Power's The Audit Society influentially challenged the concerns and fetishes of the 1990s. His fine new book will likewise provoke intense debate on how the societies of the new century conceive and manage risk.' Donald MacKenzie, Professor of Sociology, University of Edinburgh; author of An Engine, Not A Camera: How Financial Models Shape Markets `Power provides a fascinating and important insight into the emergent world of risk management. Organized Uncertainty analyses the origins and function of new designs for practice, and probes below the surface of a risk management 'explosion' to provide a challenging account of its role in shaping new forms of managerial and regulatory accountability.' Anthony Hopwood, Formerly Dean of the Saïd Business School, University of Oxford `...Power has taken bold first steps in theorizing a new area of research. This is a book of blueprints to be pondered and drawn on by a wide range of scholars seeking to understand how risk, opportunity and governance are conceived of and achieved in the contemporary era.' Economy and Society


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780199253944
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Sub Title: Designing a World of Risk Management
  • Width: 162 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0199253943
  • Publisher Date: 24 May 2007
  • Height: 240 mm
  • No of Pages: 268
  • Spine Width: 18 mm
  • Weight: 551 gr


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