Abstract
Problem statement: Organizational studies frequently fail to integrate major sociological treatments of the problematic nature of contemporary society into their routine investigations. Approach: This study used the idea of risk management as a lever for integrating sociological explorations of the risk society and reflexive modernization into organizational studies, opening up the question of the restricted nature of organizational considerations of risk, the reasons for the degree of 'unreflexivity' that exists and how this might be investigated and addressed. The following ten 'theses' state some of the key assumptions that one 'thesis' is making in seeking to open up this debate. Conclusion/Recommendations: My proposal is to adopt a Latourian style that follows the actors involved in weaving together the micro and macro, discursive and non-discursive, elements of risk and its management.
Highlights
Despite its sometime critical edge, organizational studies frequently fail to integrate major sociological treatments of the problematic nature of contemporary society into their routine investigations (Clegg et al, 2006). This ‘paper’ outlines how one doctoral thesis is attempting to use the idea of risk management as a lever for integrating sociological explorations of the risk society and reflexive modernization into organizational studies
Its concern is to open up the question of the restricted nature of organizational considerations of risk, the reasons for the degree of ‘unreflexivity’ that exists and how this might be investigated and addressed
Thesis 4 manufactured uncertainty and organized irresponsibility: We live in a late modern social system that is suffering the unintended consequences of its own creations
Summary
Despite its sometime critical edge, organizational studies frequently fail to integrate major sociological treatments of the problematic nature of contemporary society into their routine investigations (Clegg et al, 2006). This ‘paper’ outlines how one doctoral thesis is attempting to use the idea of risk management as a lever for integrating sociological explorations of the risk society and reflexive modernization into organizational studies.
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