Michael Power

RISKWORK C

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book provides an accessible collection of essays on the practice of risk management in different fields (e.g. petroleum, aviation, chemical, finance and health care). Each chapter provides rich insights into the organizational life of risk management and the tensions that exist between dealing with risks and being accountable.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 322
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. September 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 672g
• ISBN-13: 9780198753223
• ISBN-10: 0198753225
• Artikelnr.: 47865827

Autorenporträt

Michael Power is Professor of Accounting at the London School of Economics a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW), an Associate member of the UK Chartered Institute of Taxation, and an honorary fellow of the Institute of Risk Management. Power has served for over a decade as an indepedent company director in UK financial services and has a number of other advisory positions for public bodies, including the Financial Reporting Council. He holds honorary doctorates from the Universities of St Gallen, Switzerland, Uppsala, Sweden and Turku, Finland. Research and teaching focus on regulation, accounting, auditing, internal control, risk management and organisation theory. His major works, The Audit Society: Rituals of Verification (Oxford 1999) and Organized Uncertainty: Designing a World of Risk Management (Oxford 2007) have been translated into Japanese.

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction - Riskwork: the Organizational Life of Risk Management
* 1: David Demortain: The Work of Making Risk Frameworks
* 2: Silvia Jordan and Lene Jorgensen: Risk Mapping: Day-to-Day Risk
Work in Inter-organizational Project Management
* 3: Matthew Hall and Renuka Fernando: Beyond the Headlines: Day-to-Day
Practices of Risk Measurement and Management in a Non-Governmental
Organization
* 4: Maria Zhivitskaya and Michael Power: The Work of Risk Oversight
* 5: Åsa Boholm and Hervé Corvellec: The Role of Valuation Practices
for Risk Identification
* 6: Steve Maguire and Cynthia Hardy: Riskwork: Three Scenarios from a
Study of Industrial Chemicals in Canada
* 7: Tommaso Palermo: Technoculture: Risk Reporting and Analysis at a
Large Airline
* 8: Zsuzsanna Vargha: Conversation Stoppers: Constructing Consumer
Attitudes to Risk in UK Wealth Management
* 9: Brian Pentland: Risk and Routine in the Digitized World
* 10: Véronique Labelle and Linda Rouleau: Doing Institutional Riskwork
in a Mental Health Hospital
* 11: Michael Fischer And Gerry Mcgivern: Affective Overflows in
Clinical Riskwork
* 12: Anette Mikes: The Triumph of the Humble Chief Risk Officer
* Postscript: On Riskwork and Auditwork