Managing Risk as a Duality of Harm and Benefit: A Study of Organizational Risk Objects in the Global Insurance Industry
Managing Risk as a Duality of Harm and Benefit: A Study of Organizational Risk Objects in the Global Insurance Industry
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将风险作为危害和收益的二元性进行管理:全球保险业组织风险对象的研究
DOI:
10.1111/1467-8551.12389
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发表时间:
2019
影响因子:
5.6
通讯作者:
Bednarek R
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作者:
Bednarek R
This study examines how organizations construct and manage risk objects as a duality of harm–benefit within their normal operations. It moves beyond the existing focus on accidents, disasters and crisis. We study the risk‐transfer processes of 35 insurers where they navigate the tension of retaining risk in their insurance portfolio to increase the benefit of making profit and transferring risk to reinsurance to reduce the harm of paying claims. We show that organizations’ constructions of risk are underpinned by everyday risk management practices of centralizing, calculating and diversifying. Through variation in these practices, not all organizations seek balance and we in turn uncover the sensemaking processes of abstracting and localizing that enable organizations to prioritize harm or benefit. This contributes to the risk literature by illuminating the co‐constitutive relationship between risk sensemaking processes and everyday risk management practices. Following the complex linkages involved in the construction of risk objects as sources of harm–benefit, our analysis also contributes to the literature on dualities. It shows that while immediate trade‐offs between harm–benefit occur, prioritizing one element of the duality is ultimately a means for attaining the other. Thus, while initial imbalance is evident, prioritization can be an enabling approach to navigating duality.
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DOI:
10.1111/1468-4446.12381
发表时间:
2019
期刊:
The British journal of sociology
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作者:
Rebecca Elliott
通讯作者:
Rebecca Elliott
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发表时间:
1997
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作者:
G. McNamara;P. Bromiley
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P. Bromiley
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2004
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作者:
R. Holt
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R. Holt
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发表时间:
2017
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作者:
T. Palermo;M. Power;S. Ashby
通讯作者:
S. Ashby
影响因子:
5.4
作者:
Cagri Topal
通讯作者:
Cagri Topal