Organizational Encounters with Risk (Hardcover)

Acknowledgements; 1. Organizational encounters with risk: an introduction Bridget Hutter and Michael Power; 2. Organizational rituals of risk and error Diane Vaughan; 3. 'Ways of seeing': understandings of risk in organisational settings Bridget Hutter; 4. Risk and rules: the 'legalization' of medicine Carol A. Heimer, Juleigh Coleman Petty and Rebecca J. Culyba; 5. Organizational responses to risk: the rise of the Chief Risk Officer Michael Power; 6. Incentives, risk and accountability in organizations Timothy Besley and Maitreesh Ghatak; 7. Mathematizing risk: models, arbitrage and crises Donald MacKenzie; 8. Interdependencies within an organization Howard Kunreuther and Geoffrey Heal; 9. Restoring reason: causal narratives and political culture Sheila Jasanoff; Bibliography; Index.