Riskwork

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.

• Michael Power: Introduction - Riskwork: the Organizational Life of Risk Management1: David Demortain: The Work of Making Risk Frameworks2: Silvia Jordan & Lene Jorgensen: Risk Mapping: Day-to-Day Risk Work in Inter-organizational Project Management3: Matthew Hall & Renuka Fernando: Beyond the Headlines: Day-to-Day Practices of Risk Measurement and Management in a Non-Governmental Organization4: Maria Zhivitskaya and Michael Power: The Work of Risk Oversight5: Åsa Boholm & Hervé Corvellec: The Role of Valuation Practices for Risk Identification6: Steve Maguire & Cynthia Hardy: Riskwork: Three Scenarios from a Study of Industrial Chemicals in Canada7: Tommaso Palermo: Technoculture: Risk Reporting and Analysis at a Large Airline8: Zsuzsanna Vargha: Conversation Stoppers: Constructing Consumer Attitudes to Risk in UK Wealth Management9: Brian Pentland: Risk and Routine in the Digitized World10: Véronique Labelle & Linda Rouleau: Doing Institutional Riskwork in a Mental Health Hospital11: Michael Fischer And Gerry Mcgivern: Affective Overflows in Clinical Riskwork12: Anette Mikes: The Triumph of the Humble Chief Risk OfficerMichael Power: Postscript: On Riskwork and Auditwork