Risk and Organizations: Toward a Cultural-Symbolic Perspective

2008-01-01
Gephart, Robert
Topal, Çağrı
Kulicki, Michael
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The study of risk in contemporary social life has become ‘one of the most lively areas of theoretical debate in social and cultural theories in recent times’ (Lupton, 1999a: 1). Although some organizational scholars have addressed risks relevant toorganizations (e.g. Gephart, 1997), the field of organizational scholarship has not accorded the topic of risk, the centrality or concern that it has achieved in social theory. Further, where risk has been explicitly addressed in organizational research, the cognitive science approach has often been adopted. The cognitive science approach presumes risk is an objective phenomenon subject to quantification.
Organizational theory, Management (general)
http://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781849200394.n18
https://hdl.handle.net/11511/79626
Department of Business Administration, Book / Book chapter

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R. Gephart, Ç. Topal, and M. Kulicki, Risk and Organizations: Toward a Cultural-Symbolic Perspective. 2008.
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