Decision making under risk in organisations

"By comparing how two local authorities deal with the risks involved in implementing Germany's environmental waste policy, this book questions how organisations deal with making decisions in situations of risk in general. Using a combination of risk sociology and institutional theories of organisation, Kamper examines how organisations 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 shows how organisations 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 organisations."--Jacket