Sub-theme 58: Organizing Risk for Better Futures
Convenors:
Tommaso Palermo, London School of Economics, United Kingdom
Julie Mayer, École polytechnique, France
Steve Maguire, University of Sydney, Australia
Session I: Thursday, July 06, 09:00 to 10:30, Ingegneria – D – 0_Magna
Concept Development: "Risk Cycle"
Chair: Tommaso Palermo
Inês Peixoto and Nina Granqvist
Temporalizing unprecedented risks
Corinne Unger, Jorgen Sandberg, Jo-Anne Everingham and Jo-Anne Everingham
The risk management cycle reconsidered: A practice theoretical perspective
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In the first session, we will introduce the themes and intellectual agenda of this sub-theme.
Steve Maguire will give a brief introduction to "risk translation".
We will then discuss two papers that engage with the notion of “risk translation”.
In the first session, we will introduce the themes and intellectual agenda of this sub-theme.
Steve Maguire will give a brief introduction to "risk translation".
We will then discuss two papers that engage with the notion of “risk translation”.
Session II: Thursday, July 06, 11:00 to 12:30, Ingegneria – D – 0_Magna
Systemic Risk and Crisis
Chair: Julie Mayer
Kenneth Pettersen and Lisbet Fjæran
Attenuating risks into disaster
Discussant(s): Dendler
Elsa Gisquet and Raffi Duymedjian
Building vs dwelling during an industrial accident: A spatial perspective
Discussant(s): Pettersen
Leonie Dendler, Manuel Nicklich, Annett Schulze, Sabine Pfeiffer and Annett Schulze
Systemic risks and organizational challenges in transformative processes: ‘Cybersecurity’ in the food field
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This session is based on three conceptual papers which draw attention to the role of a "systemic" perspective to the study of risk organizing, with a particular focus on crisis situations.
This session is based on three conceptual papers which draw attention to the role of a "systemic" perspective to the study of risk organizing, with a particular focus on crisis situations.
Session III: Thursday, July 06, 14:00 to 15:30, Ingegneria – D – 0_Magna
Riskwork and Experts
Chair: Steve Maguire
Farrukh Rana, Graeme Currie, Gerardo Patriotta, Graeme Currie and Gerardo Patriotta
Organising professional and organisational contextual risks: psychiatrists’ riskwork when caught in-between organisational
policies and clinical work
Discussant(s): O'Sullivan
Jade Wong
Professional vision(s) of risk
Discussant(s): Rana
Niamh O'Sullivan
Unpacking how occupational pension schemes organise risk for better futures: The Irish case
Discussant(s): Wong
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This session is based on three papers that help to explore the role of "experts" and expertise in riskwork.
This session is based on three papers that help to explore the role of "experts" and expertise in riskwork.
Session IV: Friday, July 07, 09:00 to 10:30, Ingegneria – D – 0_Magna
Covid-19 and Resilience
Chair: Julie Mayer
Bert de Graaff, Sabrina Rahmawan-Huizenga, Sabrina Huizenga and Roland Bal
Preparing for the previous pandemic: Resilience and risk work in healthcare governance during the COVID-19 pandemic in the
Netherlands
Discussant(s): Barrett
Elisa Villani and Nelson Phillips
Managing in times of crisis: Is hybridity an advantage or a drawback? The case of the Covid-19 pandemic in two Italian regions
Discussant(s): de Graaff
Michael Barrett, Eivor Oborn, Karl Prince and Edwin Lee
A relational perspective on digital technologies and organizing risk:
Improvising telemedicine for eye care services during crisis
Discussant(s): Villani
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This session is based on three papers that build on the disruptions caused by the Covid-19 pandemic and provide insights on ways of managing risks in times of crisis.
This session is based on three papers that build on the disruptions caused by the Covid-19 pandemic and provide insights on ways of managing risks in times of crisis.
Session V: Friday, July 07, 11:00 to 12:30, Ingegneria – D – 0_Magna
Risk Discourse, rhetoric and representation
Chair: Tommaso Palermo
Gabriella R. Skoff, Jarryd Daymond and Steve Maguire
How Hype Shapes and Strengthens Nascent Entrepreneurial Ecosystems: Risk, Responsibility, and Emerging Quantum Technologies
in Australia
Discussant(s): Reilley
Ming Wang and Klaus Weber
The rhetoric of risk: A mixed-method explorative study of the Corpus of American Corporate 10-Ks
Discussant(s): Maguire
Jacob Reilley and Vitor Hugo Klein Junior
The role of calculative tools in constructing risk acceptability: Navigating risk and benefit in decision making
Discussant(s): Wang
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This session is based on three papers based on different research methods which, however, should help us to discuss one aspect of "risk work", namely, the use of representational technologies and their interrelations with risk discourses.
This session is based on three papers based on different research methods which, however, should help us to discuss one aspect of "risk work", namely, the use of representational technologies and their interrelations with risk discourses.
Session VI: Friday, July 07, 14:00 to 15:30, Ingegneria – D – 0_Magna
Through the Risk Cycle
Chair: Steve Maguire
Caroline Lavarenne and Benoît Journé
Reflexive analysis of complex trade-offs in nuclear riskwork: An opportunity for a dominant discourse evolution?
Discussant(s): Lefsrud
Sari Yli-Kauhaluoma, Milt Statheropoulos, Andreas Walte and Paula Vanninen
Managing invisible risks: Firefighters dealing with chemical hazards
Discussant(s): Journé
Lianne M. Lefsrud, Heather Eckert, Long Zhao, Joel Gehman and Heather Eckert
Getting creative in improving organizations’ risk management
Discussant(s): Yli-Kauhaluoma
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In this session, three papers examine risk organizing from distinct temporal perspective: prospective (paper 1), real time (paper 2), and retrospective (paper 3). On this basis, the papers will help us to explore the three phases of a risk cycle and will form the foundation for the following concept development session on risk cycles (Session VII).
In this session, three papers examine risk organizing from distinct temporal perspective: prospective (paper 1), real time (paper 2), and retrospective (paper 3). On this basis, the papers will help us to explore the three phases of a risk cycle and will form the foundation for the following concept development session on risk cycles (Session VII).
Session VII: Saturday, July 08, 09:00 to 10:30, Ingegneria – D – 0_Magna
Concept Development: "Risk translation"
Chair: Julie Mayer
Steve Maguire
Brief
introduction to risk translation
Anestis Keremis and Christian Huber
The role of mediators in risk translation: Insights from corporate anti-corruption and compliance
Tommaso Palermo, Daniel Martinez, Dane Pflueger and Daniel Martinez
Risky highs: Risk translation and the making of a market for recreational Marijuana
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This will be our second "special" session, which is based on two papers that engage with the notion of "risk cycles" (Hardy et al., 2020). We will ask the authors of the two papers to briefly explain their proposed contributions, before opening up the session for questions and comments.
This will be our second "special" session, which is based on two papers that engage with the notion of "risk cycles" (Hardy et al., 2020). We will ask the authors of the two papers to briefly explain their proposed contributions, before opening up the session for questions and comments.
Session VIII: Saturday, July 08, 11:00 to 12:30, Ingegneria – D – 0_Magna
Climate Change Risks
Chair: Steve Maguire
Karin Kreutzer, Carina Keller, Myriam Bechtoldt and Myriam Bechtoldt
Not our business: Why the climate crisis is not perceived as a corporate crisis
Discussant(s): Guérineau
Sasha Maher
Organised retreat: Risk, insurance, and the governance of climate change
Discussant(s): Kreutzer
Julie Mayer and Mathias Guérineau
Organizing cold as an Anthropocene risk object: Lessons from the “Siberia Operation”
Discussant(s): Maher
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This session is based on three papers that deal with climate change risks. It will be followed by concluding remarks.
This session is based on three papers that deal with climate change risks. It will be followed by concluding remarks.