组织风险:风险社会的组织与管理理论

Organizing Risk: Organization and Management Theory for the Risk Society

ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT ANNALS · 2020
被引 102
人大 AFT50ABS 4*

中文导读

整合了关于组织风险的分散文献,基于前瞻、实时和回顾三种模式,提出风险循环、风险工作与风险翻译等新概念,揭示风险意义的不稳定性及其政治后果,为组织与管理学者提供研究议程。

Abstract

Risk has become a crucial part of organizing, affecting a wide range of organizations in all sectors. We identify, review, and integrate diverse literatures relevant to organizing risk, building on an existing framework that describes how risk is organized in three “modes”—prospectively, in real-time, and retrospectively. We then identify three critical issues in the existing literature: its fragmented nature, its neglect of the tensions associated with each of the modes, and its tendency to assume that the meaning of an object in relation to risk is singular and stable. We provide a series of new insights with regard to each of these issues. First, we develop the concept of a risk cycle that shows how organizations engage with all three modes and transition between them over time. Second, we explain why the tensions have been largely ignored and show how studies using a risk-work perspective can provide further insights into them. Third, we develop the concept of risk translation to highlight the ways in which the meanings of risks can be transformed and to identify the political consequences of such translations. We conclude the article with a research agenda to elaborate these insights and ideas further.

风险管理组织理论风险社会