Organized Uncertainty: Designing a World of Risk Management

By Michael Power. 2007

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From counting risk to making risk count: Boundary-work in risk management (2011, background): “Instead it was interactive (Simons, 1991) and these senior risk officers positioned themselves as “self-reflective and self-improving” organizational actors (Power, 2007:23).”
Risk and the limits of governance: Exploring varied patterns of risk‐based governance across Europe (2013, background): “Power (2007), for example, argues that in the face of increasing scrutiny and legitimacy pressures, riskbased governance practices offer bureaucracies defensive decisionmaking rationales that carry the veneer of technocratic legitimacy irrespective of their actual methodological value (Porter 1995).”
Fear and risk in the audit process (2014, background): “Risks and fear can find a location in any area of organizations’ life (Power, 2007a).”
Enterprise Risk Management: Review, Critique, and Research Directions (2015, unknown): “Despite the ambiguities and disagreements (illustrated in Tables 1 and 2) about what constitute ERM, there has begun to emerge a consensus about the core elements of ERM.”
A very geographical crisis: the making and breaking of the 2007–2008 financial crisis (2009, background): “However, for reasons that we have outlined in this paper, the confident organized uncertainty of the financial boom (Power, 2007) has been transformed into a reduced world of disorganized uncertainty, and not a little fear.”
Identifying risk factors of urban-rural conflict in urbanization: A case of China (2014, background): “Since the end of the 20th century, the domain of risk management has experienced a dramatic expansion, its influence extending to various fields, and it has become the important means of management for all kinds of organizations such as banks, hospitals, schools and governments (Power, 2011).”
Knowledge and valuation in markets (2009, background): “To have a better understanding of the role of knowledge is crucial for the discussion of how standards are playing an increasing role in the work of organizing and managing uncertainty by creating calculable risks (Power 2007) in markets.”
The risk management of nothing (2009, background): “Even control functions can vary internally their values and ‘calculative culture’ (Mikes, 2009; Power, 2007).”