Power, Michael 
ORCID: 0000-0001-8148-3953
(2009)
The risk management of nothing.
Accounting, Organizations and Society, 34 (6-7).
pp. 849-855.
ISSN 0361-3682
Abstract
This essay challenges core elements of enterprise risk management (ERM) and suggests that an impoverished conception of ‘risk appetite’ is part of the ‘intellectual failure’ at the heart of the financial crisis. Regulators, senior management and boards must understand risk appetite more as the consequence of a dynamic organizational process involving values as much as metrics. In addition, ERM has operated as a boundary preserving model of risk management subject to the ‘logic of the audit trail’, rather than a boundary challenging practice which confronts and addresses the complex realities of interconnectedness. The security provided by ERM is at best limited to certain states of the world and at worst it is illusory – the risk management of nothing. In contrast, Business continuity management (BCM) may provide clues about how risk management might be reconstructed.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Official URL: | http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescriptio... |
| Additional Information: | © 2009 Elsevier |
| Divisions: | Accounting Centre for Analysis of Risk & Regulation |
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor H Social Sciences > HF Commerce > HF5601 Accounting |
| JEL classification: | G - Financial Economics > G3 - Corporate Finance and Governance |
| Date Deposited: | 16 Jun 2011 15:28 |
| Last Modified: | 11 Dec 2024 23:35 |
| URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/36828 |
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