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Organized Uncertainty: Designing a World of Risk Management


Description: 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 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 bureaucratization 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.


Contents: Glossary

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 Reputations: The Outside Comes in

6. Making Risk Auditable: Legalization and Organization

7. Designing a World of Risk Management

References
Index


Reviews `Review from previous edition The book appears just when we need it ... a valuable book. - Financial Times `This splendid book tracks what has been happening to the auditing profession in the context of the recent managerial turn ... This is a breath of fresh air. - LSE Magazine `This book is valuable precisely because of the obscurity of its subject. Very little has been written about the purpose, context, or process of auditing. This book, therefore, fills a gap. I would recommend this book for managers and physicians interested in understanding and appraising more critically the role of audit in their ogranisations. - Lois Quam, BMJ Volume 316, 1998 `This is a book for the times. It will resonate instantly with hard-pressed UK public-sector professionals. It is wide-ranging and perceptive, showing the fruitfulness of Powers original training in critical philosophy combined with his later specialization in financial accounting. The book provides the most coherent challenge to the audit explosion that has been offered to date. - Christopher Hood. Journal of Public Policy. 18/1/1998. `..subtle, stimulating and important book. - Rudolf Klein. University of Bath. 1998. `Michael Powers 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


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