Decision Making Under Risk in Organisations: The Case of German Waste Management (Ashgate Studies in Environmental Policy and Practice) - Hardcover

Kamper, Eckard

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0754614344 ISBN 13: 9780754614340

Publisher: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2000

Synopsis

By comparing how two local authorities deal with the risks involved in Germany's environmental waste policy, this text questions how organizations deal with making decisions in situations of risk in general. Using a combination of risk sociology and institutional theories of organization, Kamper examines how organizations develop institutional structures to cope with risk-taking decision-making. In doing so, he challenges the commonly-held view that the most important factor required when making risky decisions is rationality, and instead argues that the key is an ability to absorb uncertainty. The volume seeks to show how organizations develop institutional structures to cope with risk-taking which both absorbs uncertainty and allocates responsibility, and how an understanding of social structures is crucial to understanding how such decisions are made by organizations.

Edition details

• Publisher: Ashgate Publishing Limited
• Publication date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0754614344
• ISBN 13: 9780754614340
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 204