Riskwork by Michael Power
This book provides an accessible collection of essays on the practice of risk management in different fields (e.g. petroleum, aviation, chemical, finance and health care). Each chapter provides rich insights into the organizational life of risk management and the tensions that exist between dealing with risks and being accountable.
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.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780198753223 |
| ISBN 10 | 0198753225 |
| Title | Riskwork |
| Author | Michael Power |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
| Year published | 2016-09-15 |
| Number of pages | 322 |
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