Organizations and Risk in Late Modernity
Organizations and Risk in Late Modernity
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DOI：
10.1177/0170840608101474
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发表时间：
2009-02-01
影响因子：
5.4
通讯作者：
Oberlechner, Thomas
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作者：
Gephart, Robert P., Jr.;Van Maanen, John;Oberlechner, Thomas
风险是后现代主义时期组织的一个重要特征，但研究不足。本文介绍了《后现代性的组织与风险》专刊。讨论了特殊问题的理由。概述了风险研究和组织的重要方法，以框架的特殊问题。这些方法包括认知科学方法，它采取实证主义的观点，并假设风险是客观和可知的。这种观点与玛丽道格拉斯、乌尔里希·贝克、安东尼·吉登斯和米歇尔·福柯基于工作的社会文化理论形成对比。然后讨论了查尔斯·佩罗的关于风险和事故产生的组织理论，以及卡尔·威克的风险意义建构理论。然后，本文回顾了特刊论文的贡献，并概述了未来研究风险和组织的问题。
Risk is an important but under-investigated feature of organizations in Late Modernity. This paper introduces the Special Issue on Organizations and Risk in Late Modernity. The rationale for the special issue is discussed. An overview of important approaches to risk research and organizations is provided to frame the special issue. These approaches include the cognitive science approach, which takes a positivist perspective and assumes that risks are objective and knowable. This view is contrasted with socio-cultural theories based in work by Mary Douglas, Ulrich Beck, Anthony Giddens and Michel Foucault. Charles Perrow's organizational theory of the production of risk and accidents due to interactive complexity, and Karl Weick's theory of risk sensemaking, are then discussed. The paper then reviews the contributions of papers in the special issue and outlines issues for future research on risk and organizations.