ORGANIZING PROCESSES AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF RISK: A DISCURSIVE APPROACH

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Maguire, Steve; Hardy, Cynthia
• 署名单位: McGill University; University of Melbourne
• 刊物名称: ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT JOURNAL
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0001-4273
• DOI: 10.5465/amj.2010.0714
• 发表日期: 2013
• 页码: 231-255
• 关键词: ORGANIZATIONAL-CHANGE; discourse; TECHNOLOGY; management; language; SOCIETY; science; sense; POWER

摘要

This study examines the organizing processes through which products become risky. Drawing on a case study of chemical risk assessment and management processes in Canada and comparing two chemicals, it identifies a series of enacted practices that bundle into two forms of social ordering: normalizing and problematizing. By bringing the past to bear differently on organizing processes, these two forms of social ordering structure the discursive work of actors in both their attempts to stabilize and their attempts to destabilize and change meanings of risk objects. As a result, objects become risky or safe in different ways.