Risk Management: the Talking Cure
研究了将风险管理作为应对战略组织不确定性的方法,指出将不确定性解构为理性概率是狭隘认识论的表现,并引入“混乱”和“棘手问题”概念,主张一种修辞性、寓言式的风险管理模式。
The use of risk management as a response to ‘strategic’ organizational uncertainties is investigated. The deconstruction of uncertainties to rationalized probabilities is argued to be symptomatic of a specific conceptualization of problems as ‘tame’, a narrow epistemology that fails to account fully for organizational experience. By introducing ‘messes’ and ‘wicked problems’, a new mode of rhetorical, allegorical risk management is argued for. Insights from Machiavelli and psychoanalysis provide frameworks by which this can be achieved.