Organizational Encounters with Risk

List of tables vii Notes on contributors viii Acknowledgements xii List of abbreviations and acronyms xiii 1 Organizational encounters with risk: an introduction Bridget Hutter and Michael Power 1(32) 2 Organizational rituals of risk and error Diane Vaughan 33(34) 3 'Ways of seeing': understandings of risk in organizational settings Bridget M. Hutter 67(25) 4 Risk and rules: the 'legalization' of medicine Carol A. Hemmer, JuLeigh Coleman Petty and Rebecca J. Culyba 92(40) 5 Organizational responses to risk: the rise of the chief risk officer Michael Power 132(17) 6 Incentives, risk and accountability in organizations Timothy Besley and Maitreesh Ghatak 149(18) 7 Mathematizing risk: models, arbitrage and crises Donald MacKenzie 167(23) 8 Interdependencies within an organization Howard Kunreuther and Geoffrey Heal 190(19) 9 Restoring reason: causal narratives and political culture Sheila Jasanoff 209(24) Bibliography 233(24) Name index 257(5) Subject index 262