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dc.contributor.authorPower, Michael
dc.contributor.authorScheytt, Tobias
dc.contributor.authorSoin, Kim
dc.contributor.authorSahlin, Kerstin
dc.date.accessioned2013-04-11T09:26:12Z
dc.date.issued2009
dc.description.abstractThis paper argues that it is useful to regard `reputational risk' as a pervasive logic of organizing and organizational attention. First, we suggest that the risk management agenda has expanded from its roots in technical analysis to become a cornerstone of good governance and responsible actorhood. We illustrate this claim in the context of English universities. Second, we suggest that this expansion in the reach and significance of risk management has increased organizational orientations to reputational risk and to more defensively and legalistically framed forms of asset management. Specifically, organizations are responding to the growth of external bodies which evaluate and rank, and thereby generate reputational risk. In the context of universities, we argue that this leads both to specific transformations in organizational practices in response to ranking systems, and also to an increased generalized concern with reputational risk, which is a symptom of late modern insecurity.en_GB
dc.identifier.citationVol. 30, Issue 2-3, pp. 301 - 324en_GB
dc.identifier.doi10.1177/0170840608101482
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10871/8225
dc.language.isoenen_GB
dc.publisherSageen_GB
dc.relation.urlhttp://www.uk.sagepub.com/journals/Journal201657en_GB
dc.relation.urlhttp://oss.sagepub.com/en_GB
dc.subjectrankingen_GB
dc.subjectrisk managementen_GB
dc.subjectreputational risken_GB
dc.subjectlate modernityen_GB
dc.subjectregulationen_GB
dc.subjectuniversitiesen_GB
dc.titleReputational risk as a logic of organizing in late modernityen_GB
dc.typeArticleen_GB
dc.date.available2013-04-11T09:26:12Z
dc.identifier.issn0170-8406
dc.descriptionPost-print version. Final version published by Sage; available online at http://oss.sagepub.com/en_GB
dc.identifier.journalOrganization Studiesen_GB


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