Risk Management: the Talking Cure
- 1 May 2004
- journal article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Organization
- Vol. 11 (2), 251-270
- https://doi.org/10.1177/1350508404041615
Abstract
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.Keywords
This publication has 12 references indexed in Scilit:
- REGISTRATION AND ETHICS IN PSYCHOTHERAPYBritish Journal of Psychotherapy, 2000
- "Risk Society": The Cult of Theory and the Millennium?Social Policy & Administration, 1999
- Avoiding severe environmental consequences: evidence on the role of loss avoidance and risk attitudesJournal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 1999
- The Primary RiskHuman Relations, 1999
- Clarifying Frank Knight's discussion of the meaning of risk and uncertaintyCambridge Journal of Economics, 1998
- Social Defenses Against Organizational LearningHuman Relations, 1998
- From theory to practice: research territory, processes and structure at an organizational learning centreJournal of Organizational Change Management, 1996
- Action science and organizational learningJournal of Managerial Psychology, 1995
- Tercets on FortunePublished by Duke University Press ,1989
- Dilemmas in a general theory of planningPolicy Sciences, 1973