Decision Making Under Risk in Organisations: The Case of German Waste Management (Routledge Revivals) - Softcover

Kamper, Eckard

 
9781138739574: Decision Making Under Risk in Organisations: The Case of German Waste Management (Routledge Revivals)
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ISBN 10: 113873957X ISBN 13: 9781138739574
Publisher: Routledge, 2019

Synopsis

This title was first published in 2000. 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.

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Kamper, Eckard

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
2019
Language
English
ISBN 10 
113873957X
ISBN 13 
9781138739574
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
204

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