Tobias Scheytt

TL;DR: The authors argue that the risk management agenda has expanded from its roots in technical analysis to become a cornerstone of good governance and responsible actorhood, and illustrate this claim in the context of English universities, and 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.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that given the embedded nature of organizations, a narrative methodology offers an alternative and complementary approach to developing our understanding in cross-cultural research, using examples of story-driven investigations into cultural differences.

TL;DR: The notion of the "permanent state of exception" was introduced by the Italian social theorist Giorgio Agamben, 1998 as mentioned in this paper, who argued that risk is a powerful social category as it reflects a potential exception, challenging norms as well as normalizing forms of control.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors describe the implementation process of the Universitaetsorganisationsgesetz 1993 (University Organisation Act of 1993) at an Austrian university and suggest a frame of reference that is based on an understanding of universities as complex and self-referential organisations.