The narrative structure of risk accountsRisk Management - Tập 13 - Trang 101-121 - 2011
Hervé Corvellec
In this article, the author considers such risk warning signs as ‘Stand behind the yellow line’ paradigmatic of risk accounts and approaches these signs in the light of narrative theory, more specifically structural and post-structural narratology. There are three related purposes for this approach. First, it is to demonstrate the relevance of narratology for risk research. Second, it is to provid...... hiện toàn bộ
Managing risks through ISO 31000: A critical analysisRisk Management - Tập 14 - Trang 272-300 - 2012
Carole Lalonde, Olivier Boiral
Managing risks is a strategic challenge for organizations, which must face threats increasingly complex and diverse. Introduced in 2009, the ISO 31000 standard is intended to help organizations to manage in a systematic and comprehensive manner diverse types of risk by offering a universal framework ‘to assist the organization to integrate risk management into its overall management system’ (ISO, ...... hiện toàn bộ
Avoiding extreme risk before it occurs: A complexity science approach to incubationRisk Management - Tập 12 - Trang 54-82 - 2010
Bill McKelvey, Pierpaolo Andriani
Crises appearing in many kinds of organizations are found to be mostly caused by management and workers. The acquisition of the Southern Pacific railroad by the Union Pacific in 1996 provides a dramatic case of how tiny initiating events – incubation events – that appeared chaotic, random and unimportant to an arrogant management spiralled into a crisis. This article draws on theories from complex...... hiện toàn bộ
High-Risk Decisions When Probabilities Are Unknown (or Irrelevant)Risk Management - Tập 7 - Trang 57-61 - 2005
Mark Jablonowski
High-risk exposures, those with the potential to destroy or seriously impair an individual, business or society, are our greatest ‘risk management’ concern. Yet when it comes to such rare, high-impact events, probability information is scarce, and may ultimately be useless as a guide to action. In this paper, we review the appropriateness of probability-based techniques, primary expected value dec...... hiện toàn bộ
Employee Perceptions of Prejudice and Violence in the Workplace: Implications for Corporate SecurityRisk Management - Tập 8 - Trang 175-191 - 2006
Sameer Hinduja
Using secondary data, an analysis was conducted to determine how worker mistreatment by co-workers affects performance and well-being. Perceived negative treatment experienced because of age, sex, race, ethnicity, and education, and a group of eight less subtle forms of harassment, were used as predictors of maladaptive emotional and behavioral responses in a set of bivariate and multivariate OLS ...... hiện toàn bộ
Managing the Risks within Automotive ManufacturingRisk Management - Tập 1 - Trang 7-23 - 1999
Fiona D Patterson, Kevin Neailey, David Kewley
Risk is an inadvertent part of all projects. Nevertheless, organisations around the world are managing the risk to which they are exposed, and thereby increasing their competitive edge within the market place. However the majority of the transportation manufacturing sector has yet to realise the benefits attached to implementing risk management as part of their operations. This paper offers a Risk...... hiện toàn bộ