Table of Contents

Michael Power: Introduction - Riskwork: the Organizational Life of Risk Management
1: David Demortain: The Work of Making Risk Frameworks
2: Silvia Jordan & Lene Jorgensen: Risk Mapping: Day-to-Day Risk Work in Inter-organizational Project Management
3: Matthew Hall & Renuka Fernando: Beyond the Headlines: Day-to-Day Practices of Risk Measurement and Management in a Non-Governmental Organization
4: Maria Zhivitskaya and Michael Power: The Work of Risk Oversight
5: Åsa Boholm & Hervé Corvellec: The Role of Valuation Practices for Risk Identification
6: Steve Maguire & Cynthia Hardy: Riskwork: Three Scenarios from a Study of Industrial Chemicals in Canada
7: Tommaso Palermo: Technoculture: Risk Reporting and Analysis at a Large Airline
8: Zsuzsanna Vargha: Conversation Stoppers: Constructing Consumer Attitudes to Risk in UK Wealth Management
9: Brian Pentland: Risk and Routine in the Digitized World
10: Véronique Labelle & Linda Rouleau: Doing Institutional Riskwork in a Mental Health Hospital
11: Michael Fischer And Gerry Mcgivern: Affective Overflows in Clinical Riskwork
12: Anette Mikes: The Triumph of the Humble Chief Risk Officer
Michael Power: Postscript: On Riskwork and Auditwork

About the Author

Michael Power is Professor of Accounting at the London School of Economics a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW), an Associate member of the UK Chartered Institute of Taxation, and an honorary fellow of the Institute of Risk Management. Power has served for over a decade as an indepedent company director in UK financial services and has a number of other advisory positions for public bodies, including the Financial
Reporting Council. He holds honorary doctorates from the Universities of St Gallen, Switzerland, Uppsala, Sweden and Turku, Finland. Research and teaching focus on regulation, accounting, auditing,
internal control, risk management and organisation theory. His major works, The Audit Society: Rituals of Verification (Oxford 1999) and Organized Uncertainty: Designing a World of Risk Management (Oxford 2007) have been translated into Japanese.