ORGANIZING RISK: DISCOURSE, POWER, AND RISKIFICATION

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Hardy, Cynthia; Maguire, Steve
• 署名单位: University of Melbourne; Cardiff University; McGill University
• 刊物名称: ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT REVIEW
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0363-7425
• DOI: 10.5465/amr.2013.0106
• 发表日期: 2016
• 页码: 80-108
• 关键词: IMPRESSION MANAGEMENT; ORGANIZATIONS; SENSEMAKING; CONSTRUCTION; science; CRISIS; Blame; sense; legitimacy; experience

摘要

Drawing on the work of Foucault, we develop an integrated framework for understanding how risk is organized in three different modes: prospectively, in real time, and retrospectively. We show how these modes are situated in a dominant discourse of risk that leads organizations to normalize risk in particular ways by privileging certain forms of knowledge and authorizing certain risk identities over others. In addition to identifying the common way risk is organized in each mode and showing how it is held in place by the dominant discourse, we propose alternative ways to organize risk that resist this dominant discourse, and we explain why they are difficult to enact. We then extend our analysis by theorizing how, even when it occurs, resistance to the dominant discourse of risk can contribute to riskification, with more and more organizing undertaken in the name of risk because of intensification, discipline, and governmentality.