Organizational risk: a multidimensional perspective

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2014-09-17

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Topal, Çağrı

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In this study we address the question of what issues organizational actors focus on when constructing organizational risks. The past research portrays the actors as attending to a specific risk source or outcome when giving meaning to risks and thus organizational risk seems to be a simple, one-dimensional, phenomenon. The study shows that the actors attend to multiple and interrelated issues including project, concerns or outcomes, measures or plans, consultations, other organizational actors, and organizational contexts, and several sub-issues within those key issues. The actors give meaning to these six key issues to give meaning to an organizational phenomenon as a risk; the construction of organizational risk is shaped by the construction of the six key issues. These six key issues and their sub-issues provide an empirical framework of risk construction to analyze and understand the process of giving meaning to organizational risk.

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/83935
http://iamb.org/Proceedings/2014/rome/MS/69%20Topal%20MS.pdf

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Proceedings of the the 18th International Academy of Management and Business(IAMB) Conference (2014)

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Department of Business Administration, Conference / Seminar

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Ç. Topal, “Organizational risk: a multidimensional perspective,” presented at the Proceedings of the the 18th International Academy of Management and Business(IAMB) Conference (2014), Rome, Italy, 2014, Accessed: 00, 2021. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/83935.