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Sub-theme 29:

Risky Organizations and the Organization of Risk Management

 

Convenors:

Sytze F. Kingma
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (The Netherlands)
sf.kingma@fsw.vu.nl

Robert P. Gephart, Jr.
University of Alberta (Canada)
robert.gephart@ualberta.ca

Arjen Boin
Leiden University (The Netherlands)
boin@fsw.leidenuniv.nl

 

  Joint Starting Session: Thursday, July 10 – 11:00–11:30

 

  Session I: Thursday, July 10 – 11:30–12:30
  – Parallel Sessions –
• Parallel Stream A: Organizing in the Risk Society
• Parallel Stream B: (The Management of) Risky Organizations

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Parallel Stream A: Risk Conversions and New Risk

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Chair: Sytze F. Kingma

Laure Cabantous, Jean-Pascal Gond and Erwann Michel-Kerjan
Managing risks after the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Or, what it takes to turn catastrophic events into insurance markets

Laure Cabantous, Jean-Pascal Gond and Erwann Michel-Kerjan
Managing risks after the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Or, what it takes to turn catastrophic events into insurance markets

Hans Krause Hansen
Managing corruption risk: Due diligence and whistle-blowing

Christian Gebhardt and Stephan Kaiser
A neglected form of risk. Management of social risks seen from an observation-theoretical perspective

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Parallel Stream B: Risk Management, Part I: Preparing for Crisis

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Chair: Arjen Boin

Oliver Kessler, Matthias Briner, Yvonne Pfeiffer, Theo Wehner and Tanja Manser
Clinical risk management in Swiss hospitals

Anu Suokas, M. Dixon-Woods, E. Pitchforth and R.J. Lilford
Negotiating practice and standardization: The case of an early warning scoring system

Paddy O'Toole, Steven Talbot and Justin Fidock
Risky business: Risk management within a defence organization
 

Session II: Thursday, July 10 – 14:00–15:30
– Parallel Sessions –

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Parallel Stream A: Risk and Finance

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Chair: Robert P. Gephart, Jr.

Isabelle Huault and Helene Rainelli
A market for weather risk? Worlds in conflicts and compromising

Raytcheva Stela and Said Karim
What are the possibilities for standardization in the face of risk taking? The case of French and Bulgarian bankers

Gregory B. Vit
Les jeux sont fait, rien ne va plus: The over-ride of economic logic by ideological and social logics at Societé Générale

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Parallel Stream B: Risk Management, Part II: Coping with External Dangers

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Chair: Ira Helsloot

Bridgette Sullivan-Taylor
Organisational risk and resilience: Copinig with uncertainty

Petra Hiller
Risk management in public organizations
 

Session III: Friday, July 11 – 9:00–10:30
– Parallel Sessions –

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Parallel Stream A: Risk Construction and (State) Regulation

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Chair: Sytze F. Kingma

Carmen Kuhling, Kieran Keohane and Donncha Kavanagh
Gambling and the theatrics of late capitalism

Sytze F. Kingma
The paradox of control in high-risk gambling organizations

Antoine Debure
The social construction of expertise. The case of risk assessment and risk management in international food safety standards setting

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Parallel Stream B: Risk Management, Part III: Learning from Crisis

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Chair: Arjen Boin

Gregory Rolina
How to evaluate the effectiveness of safety assessments?

Francesco Maria Barbini
Organization in disaster. The failure of disaster-recovery plans in the aftermath of the AZF explosion

Fabrice Cavaretta
Getting disoriented by performance variability: A peek through the looking-glass separating average and extreme events
 

Session IV: Friday, July 11 – 14:00–15:30
– Parallel Sessions –

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Parallel Stream A: Risk and Organizational Sense-Making, Part I: Theoretical Concepts

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Chair: Robert P. Gephart, Jr.

Cagri Topal and Robert P. Gephart, Jr.
The construction of organizational risk: A theoretical synthesis

Michael Power
Security and auditability

Hooman Attar, Richard Badham and Paul Couchman
Converting unvertainty to risk: A critical examination of organizational risk management practices during innovation

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Parallel Stream B: Disasters: "Air Crash Investigation"

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Chair: Ira Helsloot

Maurizio Catino
The Linate air disaster as coordinated failure. A multilevel model of accident analysis

Mathias Szpirglas
A theory of quiproquo for strategic risk management: The case of the Tenerife air disaster

Arjen Boin
Explaining organizational disaster: Hindsight knowledge and fantasy fixes
 

Session V: Friday, July 11 – 16:15–17:45
Innovation Risks

 

Chair: Sytze F. Kingma

Stéphanie Tillement, Thomas Reverdy and Céline Cholez
Organisational resilience at the limit: Projects integrating new technologies in complex operational systems

Anne-Violaine Favier
Multi-stakeholders dialogue approaches to deal with emerging risks: The case of nanotechnologies

Camilla K. Tveiten and Per Morten Schiefloe
Construction of risk images in a technology driven development
 

Session VI: Saturday, July 12 – 9:00–10:30
– Parallel Sessions –

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Parallel Stream A: Risk and Organizational Sense-Making, Part II: Organizational Cues

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Chair: Robert P. Gephart, Jr.

Paul Hoogewoning
The (social) risks of risk management: About the construction of risks and the unintended consequences and impacts of risk management in governmental organizations

Gergely Janosi
Risk management and corporate culture

Ira Helsloot
The symbolism at the core of public governance of safety

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Parallel Stream B: Safety Culture, Part I: Organizational Design

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Chair: Ira Helsloot

Cynthia Colmellere
The partial anticipation of the organization in relation to the technical system in chemical installations

Ender Asyali
Risk reduction through bridge team management in shipping industry

Edeltraud Günther, Antje Fritzsche, Julie Zimmerman and Paul Anastas
Risk management in the chemical industry
 

Session VII: Saturday, July 12 – 11:15–12:45
– Parallel Sessions –

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Parallel Stream A: Risk and Organizational Sense-Making, Part III: Organizational Contexts

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Chair: Sytze F. Kingma

Eunice Maytorena and Graham Winch
How managers understand risks in projects: An exploratory study

Andreas Diedrich, Ulla Eriksson-Zetterquist and David Renemark
Risk and organizing – An action-net perspective

Anna M. Dempster
Conceptions of risk and the role of risk-taking in the creative industries

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Parallel Stream B: Safety Culture, Part II: Organizational Culture

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Chair: Arjen Boin

Stian Antonsen
Safety culture assessment – Mission impossible? On the relationship between culture and safety

Tor-Olav Nævestad
The Snorre A gas blow in light of high reliability theory

Seoyong Kim and Jaesun Wang
Three competing paradigms: A model-based approach to structural determinants of safety culture in risky organizations

 

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