Managing risk in public services A review of the international literature

International Journal of Public Sector Management

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 57-64

  Vincent, Jeremy ^a  

^a LONDON SOUTH BANK UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Management; Public sector; Risk

Indexed keywords

EID: 0002226064     PISSN: 09513558     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/09513559610119564     Document Type: Article

References (27)

1. Papers featuring at the "Risk & Human Behaviour Programme" held by Britain's Economic & Social Research Council in May 1995, London, included: Harrow, J., "Modelling risk in public services organisations: managers, organisational learning and organisational forgetting"; Horlick-Jones, T. and Rosenhead, J., "Problem structuring and risk analysis"; and Tuohy, A. and Mitchell, M., "Risk in the police service".
2. Papers featuring at the "Risk & Human Behaviour Programme" held by Britain's Economic & Social Research Council in May 1995, London, included: Harrow, J., "Modelling risk in public services organisations: managers, organisational learning and organisational forgetting"; Horlick-Jones, T. and Rosenhead, J., "Problem structuring and risk analysis"; and Tuohy, A. and Mitchell, M., "Risk in the police service".
3. Papers featuring at the "Risk & Human Behaviour Programme" held by Britain's Economic & Social Research Council in May 1995, London, included: Harrow, J., "Modelling risk in public services organisations: managers, organisational learning and organisational forgetting"; Horlick-Jones, T. and Rosenhead, J., "Problem structuring and risk analysis"; and Tuohy, A. and Mitchell, M., "Risk in the police service".
4. Papers featuring at the "Risk & Human Behaviour Programme" held by Britain's Economic & Social Research Council in May 1995, London, included: Harrow, J., "Modelling risk in public services organisations: managers, organisational learning and organisational forgetting"; Horlick-Jones, T. and Rosenhead, J., "Problem structuring and risk analysis"; and Tuohy, A. and Mitchell, M., "Risk in the police service".
5. Hood, C., "A public management for all seasons?", Public Administration, Vol. 69, Spring, 1991.
6. Dunleavy, P. and Hood, C., "From old public administration to new public management", Public Money and Management, July/September 1994.
7. Pollitt, C., Managerialism and the Public Services: Cuts or Cultural Change in the 1990s?, 2nd ed., Blackwell, Oxford, 1993.
8. Gray, A. and Jenkins, B., "From public administration to public management: reassessing a revolution?", Public Administration, Vol. 73, Spring, 1995.
9. Lupton, D., "Risk as moral danger: the social and political functions of risk discourse in public health", International Journal of Health Services, Vol. 23 No. 3, 1993, p. 425.
10. Royal Society, Risk, Analysis, Perception, Management, London, 1992, p. 135.
11. Oughton, D., "Accountability versus control - rust never sleeps", Public Sector, Vol. 17 No. 3, September 1994, p. 3.
12. Bryson, J., Strategic Planning for Public and Non-profit Organisations: A Guide to Strengthening and Sustaining Organisational Achievement, Jossey-Bass, San Francisco, CA, 1988, p. 203.
13. Grinyer, A., "Risk, the real world and naïve sociology: perceptions of risk from occupational injury in the health service", in Gabe, J. (Ed.), Medicine, Health and Risk, Blackwell, Oxford, 1995.
14. Management Advisory Board (Australia), Accountability in the Commonwealth Public Sector, No. 11, Australian Government Press, Canberra, June 1993, p. 16.
15. HM Treasury, Risk Management Guidance Note, London, June 1994, p. 6
16. Harman, E., "Accountability and challenges for Australian Governments", Australian Journal of Political Science, Vol. 29, 1994, p. 6.
17. Hood notes "the lengthening frontier between the state and the private sector as privatization extends and the 'regulatory state' develops", in [15].
18. Hood, C., "No sleaze please, we're priggish", Parliamentary Affairs, Vol. 48 No. 4, October 1995, p. 740.
19. Quoted from The Independent (UK), 25 January 1996.
20. Shapira, Z., Risk Taking: A Managerial Perspective, Russell Sage, New York, NY, 1995, p. 121.
21. McCandless, H. and Wright, D., "Enhancing public accountability", Optimum, Vol. 24 No. 2, Autumn, 1993, p. 112.
22. Jackson, P.M. (Ed.), Measures for Success in the Public Sector, Public Finance Foundation, London, 1995.
23. Gilling, D., "Contracting and accountability in the education sector", Public Sector, Vol. 18 No. 3, September 1995.
24. Kansai, T., "The nature and classifications of risk management", Kansai University Review of Economics and Business, Vol. 19, Nos 1-2, March 1991, p. 1.
25. Abad, A.R. and Palacio, A.V., "Modernization of government control systems in Argentina - a matter of accountability", Optimum, Vol. 24, No. 4, Spring, 1994, p. 37.
26. For example: Police Journal; Canadian Social Work Review, International Social Work.
27. Keller, R.A., Cicchinelli, L.F. and Gardner, J.M., 1988, in Nohejl, C.A., Doueck, H.J. and Levine, M. (Eds), "Risk assessment implementation and legal liability in child protection service practice", Law and Policy, Vol. 14 Nos 2-3, April/July 1992, p. 185.