Riskwork Essays on the Organizational Life of Risk Management

Michael Power, Professor of Accounting, London School of Economics and Political Science

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.

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