How the enterprise risk management function influences decision-making in the organization – A field study of a large, global oil and gas company

Anita Meidell and Katarina Kaarbøe

The British Accounting Review, 2017, vol. 49, issue 1, 39-55

Abstract: Risk management has been a discipline for decades. However, organizations have only recently begun to introduce a separate enterprise risk management (ERM) function. The aim of this study is to examine the transformation of the ERM function's influence in a company over time. We use a historical case study informed by social theory on how to influence others to investigate this phenomenon. The findings show that the construction of risk technologies over time triggers a change in the ERM function's influence on decision-making. Two processes of influence are used by the ERM function: selling new ideas and managing knowledge across boundaries. In the first process, the ERM function attempts to vertically influence top management's decisions regarding acceptance of new risk management technologies. In the second process, the ERM function attempts to horizontally influence decision makers to use risk knowledge in decision processes. Theoretically, our findings contribute to our understanding of how the ERM function influences decision-making in organizations over time.

Keywords: Enterprise risk management; Influence; Decision-making; Issue selling; Knowledge management; Field study (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1016/j.bar.2016.10.005

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